ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In the poem ‘To Daffodils’ the poet weeps over ____
A
loss of beautiful flower
B
loss caused to environment
C
loss of sweet scant
D
Short-lived human life
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The lifespan of fair daffodils is extremely short. As a result, the poet weeps when he sees how short the life of daffodils is. Explanation: He’d like them to stay a bit longer.

Detailed explanation-2: -The speaker points out that, like the daffodils, humans have a short spring (youth); and like dead plants, we decay as quickly as plants, to rejoin the soil. Plants, like people, lose the hours to eventual death-just like the daffodils.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the poem “To Daffodils” human life has been compared to the life of the daffodils. Human life is as short as the life of daffodils. Nothing is permanent in this world. It is a universal truth.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ans – In these lines taken from ‘Daffodils’, written by William Wordsworth, the daffodils are being compared to the stars. Here, the poet has used simile.

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