Reread these lines from the poem. and nothing i cared, at my sky blue trades, that time allows in all his tuneful turning so few and such morning songs before the children green and golden follow him out of grace. how do these lines reflect the theme that time is everyone’s ultimate master? they portray time as ruthless, taking children into adulthood when they least expect it. they show that the speaker didn’t appreciate his childhood until time took it away. they describe time as a musical performer, entertaining children before adulthood. they tell how the speaker feels that he is at time’s mercy and is being led into the dark.

Read the following passage: he roamed from chamber to chamber with hurried, unequal, and objectless step. the pallor of his countenance had assumed, if possible, a more ghastly hue— but the luminousness of his eye had utterly gone out. the once occasional huskiness of his tone was heard no more; and a tremulous quaver, as if of extreme terror, habitually characterized his utterance. there were times, indeed, when i thought his unceasingly agitated mind was laboring with some oppressive secret, to divulge which he struggled for the necessary courage. which of the above ideas might be considered foreshadowing? he is wandering all over the chamber his skin tone is really pale his voice is quivering the narrator thinks he is laboring with an oppressive secret