https://polyarchive.com/edna-st-vincent-millay-the-leaf-and-the-tree/



Based on this poem "The Tree and the Leaf" by Edna St. Vincent Millay (linked above),

1. For the speaker, the "airy top" (line 21) of the tree symbolizes which of the following?

A The peak of human knowledge

B The end of human existence

C The permanence of human achievement

D The elite in human society

E The possibility of human transcendence



2. In context, the final line of the poem ("Crawls...sleep") most plausibly suggests both the

A value of companionship and the solitude of death

B inevitability of sin and the possibility of redemption

C necessity for dreams and the danger of illusions

D hope for growth and the inescapable nature of origins

E finality of death and the cyclical nature of life



I think 2 is E