Which of the following statements is true?
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Correct answer: C. The poet says that talking in bed should be easy but it is not.
Explanation
'Talking in bed ought to be easiest… Yet more and more time passes silently.'
Note: Passage I is Philip Larkin's 'Talking in Bed' (The Whitsun Weddings, 1964), which is copyrighted and not reproduced. Lying together should be the easiest talk, 'an emblem of two people being honest', yet time passes silently. Outside, the wind's unrest and the dark towns on the horizon care nothing, and it grows harder to find words 'at once true and kind, / Or not untrue and not unkind'.
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