Comprehension Passage
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:
WHEN I'M ALONE
'When I'm alone' - the words tripped off his tongue
As though to be alone were nothing strange.
'When I was young', he said, 'when I was young...'
I thought of age, and loneliness, and change,
I thought how strange we grow when we're alone,
And how unlike the selves that meet, and talk,
And blow the candles out, and say good - night,
Alone... The word is life endured and known.
It is the stillness where our spirits walk
And all but in most faith is overthrown.
For the speaker of the words 'When I'm alone', being alone is
1
The normal fate of a human being all his life
2
The normal fate of a human being when he is young
3
Not unlike being with others whom we meet
4
Not strange as a person should feel alone