Read this excerpt from “A Winter’s Day.”
...the stranger, pleas’d,
Takes up the youngest boy upon his knee.
Proud of its seat, it wags its little feet,
And prates, and laughs, and plays with his white locks.
What effect does Baillie achieve by referring to the young boy as “it” and describing his movements as a wagging of "its little feet"?
She creates in the reader a feeling of nostalgia for a simpler time.
She evokes the appealing image of a puppy or other small, playful animal.
She emphasizes the difference in age between the young boy and the old man.
She foreshadows the aches of old age that will one day come to even the most lively child.
