ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
‘Bliss was it, in that Dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.’ Who has written these lines?
A
Shelley
B
Browning
C
Wordsworth
D
None of these
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -This is quote is written by William Wordsworth meaning when the sun arises, it gives humans a new reason to be happy and alive every new day, but being a young man has a lot more power as being in the twenties or thirties, people have more potential and energy to give this to the world.

Detailed explanation-2: -In The Prelude, English poet William Wordsworth-who spent extended time in France during the 1790s-recounted his enthrallment with the French Revolution. “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, ” reads a passage from Book Ten.

Detailed explanation-3: -Detailed Solution. The correct answer is ‘William Wordsworth’. The lines ‘Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven, ’ occur in the poem The prelude written by William Wordsworth.

Detailed explanation-4: -The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

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