FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
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He is rejoicing because he hears the bird singing for the first time
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He is rejoicing as there are no other birds except the cuckoo
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He is rejoicing because he hears the song of the cuckoo
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Wordsworth welcomes the cuckoo bird with a sense of familiarity, as he says he has heard it before. The cuckoo is merry and carefree from all the worldly worries. The cuckoo bird’s voice brings back joyous memories to the poet and thus, he rejoices.
Detailed explanation-2: -Expert-Verified Answer The poet calls the cuckoo a ‘wandering voice’ as its voice is heard passing from hill to hill and from near and far. He also refers to it as the ‘darling of spring’ as it usually sings out and babbles, mostly during the spring season when the valley is filled with flowers and sunshine.
Detailed explanation-3: -The poet bears the song of the cuckoo and feel happy. He calls the cuckoo ‘Blithe newcomer’. Out of happiness he can’t decide what to call the cuckoo-a bird or a wandering voice. Was this answer helpful?
Detailed explanation-4: -Ans. The poet calls the cuckoo as a wandering voice because he had not seen the bird but only the voice through the woods, trees, grass, and throughout the whole valley. He calls the cuckoo as the darling of the spring because the birds and its voice is visible only in the coming of the spring season.
Detailed explanation-5: -It transports the poet into the realm of imagination, of sensibility intensified, stretched, and on fire. And in that world the cuckoo is both a herald of spring (i.e., the future) and a doorway into the past. Here, the past is predominantly a positive thing; it is a “golden time, ” according to the speaker (28).