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As used in the text, what does the phrase 'a void' most nearly mean? The following text is adapted from Amy Lowell's 1912 poem 'Summer'. It is summer, glorious, deep-toned summer, The very crown of nature's changing year When all her surging life is at its full. To me alone it is a time of pause, A void and silent space between two worlds, When inspiration lags, and feeling sleeps, Gathering strength for efforts yet to come.