Question #6431106Single Choice

AP English Literatur

Question

In a poem about a lost love, the speaker says, "Our love was a delicate glass vase, shattered into a million pieces by the slightest breeze of doubt." Later in the poem, there is a line, "Now I'm left picking up the shards, trying to piece together what once was whole." What do the "shards" symbolize in the context of the poem?

Options

The memories of the lost love

The speaker's broken heart

The remains of the relationship that are irreparable

All of the above

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