Read the excerpt from midsummer by derek walcott. praise had bled my lines white of any more anger, and snow had inducted me into white fellowships, which factor most influences the speaker’s perspective? age gender race location

C. Race

Explanation: In the excerpt we can see allusions to the race of the writer, also in the development of the different poems in the "Midsummer" recompilation, he deals with issues like race inequality an cultural identity and cultural heritage, he also deals with the feelings of not belonging to any country, or feeling like he has no real home.

C. race

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in the sonnet 116 written by william shakespeare we can analyze the symbolism and say that he reuses the idea of love like a guiding star for the sailor.

reading through the poem we find out that in the line 7 there is a metaphor for the lover that is heading through the life events by love itself .