Explanation:
But no sooner were my eyes open, but I saw my Poll sitting on top of the hedge; and immediately knew that it was he spoke to me; for just in such bemoaning language I had used to talk to him and teach him.
Answer: These lines have been taken from Chapter 12 of Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe. These lines express Crusoe's feelings when his trained parrot Poll soothingly calls him by name in times of his danger.
On return from his nearly fatal canoe trip, Crusoe finds his parrot calling his name the way he used to teach the parrot to speak. The scene expresses the pathos of having only a bird to welcome him. Crusoe domesticates the bird in an attempt to provide himself with a substitute family member because he refers to his pets as his family. Poll's friendly address to his master foreshadows Friday's role as a conversation partner in Crusoe's life. Moreover, Poll's words show a self-pitying side of Crusoe that he never reveals in his narration. Teaching the bird to call him "poor" in a "bemoaning" tone shows that he may feel more like complaining than he admits in his story and that his Christian patience might be getting thin. Poll's greeting has also a spiritual significance. It comes right after Crusoe's near-death experience in the canoe. And it seems that the words come from an invisible speaker since Crusoe imagines a person might be addressing him. It seems like a mystical moment until the words are revealed not to be God's but Crusoe's own words repeated by a bird.
In these lines, Crusoe seems to be self-pitying. Cut off from human communication, Crusoe seems to be cut off from divine communication too. He can only speak to himself.
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