ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
“Prophets of Nature ……… ……………. What we have loved Other will love …………….” In which poem by Wordsworth do these lines appear?
A
Excursion
B
One Summer Evening
C
Prelude
D
None of these
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -One of Wordsworth’s most famous poems, ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ (as it should properly be known; it’s commonly known as ‘Daffodils’) is about the poet’s kinship with nature, and how the memory of the daffodils dancing cheers him whenever he recalls them.

Detailed explanation-2: -In ‘Tintern Abbey’ the poet says that Nature is: “ The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, The guide, the guardian of my heart and soul Of all my moral beings". Wordsworth identifies himself with a special message of Nature’s relation to man and of man to Nature. He creates a gospel of Nature and Man.

Detailed explanation-3: -Detailed Solution. The correct answer is ‘William Wordsworth’. The above lines are taken from the lyric poem The Solitary Reaper, written by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. The Solitary Reaper was first published in 1807 and it was inspired by Wordsworth’s visit to Scotland with his sister Dorothy.

Detailed explanation-4: -“Tintern Abbey, ” by William Wordsworth, is a poem that concentrates on a single moment in a natural environment yet extracts a multitude of sensations and perceptions that are able to impact the minds of readers across centuries.

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