virginia woolf once wrote, "i would venture to guess that anon, who wrote so many poems without selling them, was often a woman." Do you think the poet was a woman or a man?

it the climax in the poem

third person

explanation:

note the usage of names and pronouns, "james" & "the old man". this alone can confirm it as third person, as first person uses "i" and the like, while second person uses "you" and the like.

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