Question

Read the quotation from "To the King's Most Excellent Majesty."

"And may each clime with equal gladness see
A monarch's smile can set his subjects free!"

Wheatley uses the word free in these lines to suggest that

A. the king’s subjects could live without rules.
B. the king’s subjects had previously been in captivity.
C. the king will make decisions that are to his subjects’ advantage.
D. the king has the potential to make his subjects happy.

Answer 1

your answer is D

he is implying that if the king is happy then so will be his subjects.

Answer 2

“To the King's Most Excellent Majesty” is poem wrote by Phillis Wheatley in which she show her admiration and respect for the King George, she describe the king as a great monarch the everybody love, in this lines she uses the word free to represent that the king has the potential to make his subjects happy, the answer is D.