LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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Question
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The old should be allowed to die in peace
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Nature should be viewed with childlike wonder
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Nature, symbolized by the rainbow, lasts forever
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Children should obey their parents
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Detailed explanation-1: -The rainbow in “My Heart Leaps Up” fills the speaker with a sense of hope and promise. It reassures him that what gave him joy and wonder as a child still gives him joy, in turn allowing him to feel connected to the natural world and connected to his future.
Detailed explanation-2: -Representation of Nature in Wordsworth’s poetry He views Nature as a source of love, perpetual joy, soothing and healing power, knowledge and spirituality. Nature and God become one for him. He believes that Nature is the Universal Spirit guiding anyone who like to be guided by her.
Detailed explanation-3: -The speaker is dependent on the daily presence of nature in his life, or else his life will lose all meaning. Meh. Even though the speaker desires the natural world in his life, his memory of the importance of nature to him as a child is enough to sustain him. He’s exaggerating when he says “let me die!"
Detailed explanation-4: -He is saying here that his childhood formed who he is as an adult-his self, as a child, fathered, or gave birth to, his adult self. It seems the speaker treasures the fact that he still has a childlike capacity for wonder. Also note the capitalization of the words “Child” and “Man” in this line.