Question

Read the quotation below from "The Golden Cat." Who is the speaker?

Great is the Golden Cat who treads

The Blue Roof Garden o'er our heads,

The never tired smiling One

That Human People call the Sun.

A. the cat

B. the author

C. The people beneath the garden roof

D. the sun

Answer 1

Since the poem is referring to the Sun as being a cat in the third person singular, only the author can be identified as the speaker in this poem. Therefore, the correct answer is B. The author, since besides the author there is no character that would be referring to the Sun here.

Answer 2

The correct answer is: B the author.

Even thought the second sentence says "our heads", throughout the poem the author talks as if he was an observant. The poem refers to the Sun and he compares it to a cat that clings to a bird with one of its paws, with it being a ray of light.

On the las sentence the author says "human people" as if he was other animal or being, but its merely a paradox.