ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
‘Earth is the right place for Love and I do not know where it is likely to go better.’ These lines are from:
A
The Road Not Taken
B
Fire and Ice
C
Birches
D
None of these
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The poet wishes that nobody including his fate should misunderstand his desire to escape from this earth, or think that he wants to get away from here never to return. In his opinion, the earth is the right place for love, and he does not know of a better place in this respect.

Detailed explanation-2: -Quote by Robert Frost: “Earth’s the right place for love.

Detailed explanation-3: -Answer and Explanation: The birches tree in the poem symbolizes the life of the poet and how his perception of life has changed as he’s grown up.

Detailed explanation-4: -When the speaker sees bent birch trees, he likes to think that they are bent because boys have been “swinging” them. He knows that they are, in fact, bent by ice storms. Yet he prefers his vision of a boy climbing a tree carefully and then swinging at the tree’s crest to the ground.

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