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"told me my secret must be known" he wants to let someone know what he is going through "word i was in my life alone, word i had no one left but God" he has no one to tell his troubles to except for God.

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the speaker is a confused man/woman, who has forgot something and is trying to remember something. S/he is faintly remember something and cant remember more. This memory is slowly coming but he keeps missing, like a snake.

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The speaker is someone who was "holding open a restive door." He was constantly losing people in his life, so it has become a familiar feeling to the point where he thinks he has no one left but God.

restive=unable to keep still

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The speaker is someone who has been left or has lost an individual or loved one. This is true because he is left alone in his house and only has God left with him.

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the speaker is someone who feels alone because of something that happened and wants to tell someone and the only person that knows what happening to him is God

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The speaker is an old man who is alone. He is reminiscing his past life and is alone. His life is dark and gloomy and uses nature to describe his current living situation. The porch is old, similar to the old man. He's heard the wind before

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We believe the speaker is someone who feels threatened or paranoid by nature. He uses negative connotation, words like, coil, hissed, struck, roar, alone, to give a fearful tone. By personifying leaves as a snake it demonstrates how nature has targeted him. He feels very alone, and believes nature knows he is vulnerable because of that. Although, the situation is scary, he has experienced something similar before, like the feeling of a force being against him.

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We believe the speaker is an individual who has lost a loved one in his/her life. The poem is titled bereft, which is the past tense of bereave. Bereave means to be deprived of a loved one through a profound absence, especially by death. This loss has left a significant impact on their life in a melancholy way. The speaker feels isolated and lonely, and seems to be running away from their problems. The individual fears nature and is paranoid of its "threatening" actions against him/her. This is highlighted by the hissing of the leaves, as well as the darkening of the clouds. The speaker's conflicts will always catch up to them even if they try to run away and avoid it. Unless the issue is resolved, then it will continue to persist in his/her life and impact them substantially. The speaker feels as if God is the only one left for him/her, to lead them back to how their life once was.

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The speaker is lonely and has lost someone important in their life. The speaker said "Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God."

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The speaker is in a sense of deja vu. He is trying to recollect memories of what his surroundings remind him of.

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The speaker is an individual who's lacking something, especially a non-material asset, which is the meaning of the title. He/She goes somewhere and the wind reminds him of a past event. The speaker has clearly had struggles in his/her life, so much that even nature seems sinister. For example, the last two lines show that the speaker feels alone with no one else but God.

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The speaker is someone who experienced a loss in his/her life. They are scared and lonely.  The speaker says they have no one left but God.

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The speaker is encountering a familiar wind. It is autumn and the end of the day. The speaker is on his/her porch, and s/he likely lost a loved one; he is "deprived of a loved one through profound absence", which is his/her "secret" that has "gotten abroad".

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The speaker is the season of fall going into detail about the death of life. "Summer was passed and day was passed." the passing of summer is the arrival of fall. passing is also used to explain a death. the last day of summer had ended, signifying the beginning of spring.