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Use your knowledge (and your practice with interpreting voice in the various poems throughout the chapter in our textbook) to help you explain the voice in the poem, "Hayrake."

In this poem, Wilkins uses words and ideas that address life in a rural agricultural community. In addition to thinking about this setting in further detail (context), determine who is speaking, who is listening (intended or unintended audience ), and what is the speaker's purpose.

Use ample quotations from the poem and specifics to support a developed answer to the following question (hint, you can find ample information about this poet with an online search-- just see this screen shot of Wilkin's own website with links of information about his writing and life).

In "Hayrake," what is the speaker's overall tone of voice?  Is it indifferent, resolved, reverent, mournful or something else?

600 words, 5 paragraphs, in MLA format.