ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What does the poem compare the wind to?
A
screaming roars
B
rain
C
sleeping flowers
D
birds singing
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; In these lines of The World is Too Much With Us, the speaker describes the beauties of nature that most people are missing out on.

Detailed explanation-2: -Line 6: The speaker compares the winds to a wolf or any other animal that “howls.” The “howling” animal is a metaphor for the winds.

Detailed explanation-3: -Theme: Giving up nature for materialistic things and how it has changed people. Topic: Increased materialism from the Industrial Revolution and the movement away from nature.

Detailed explanation-4: -"The World Is Too Much with Us” is a sonnet by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. In it, Wordsworth criticises the world of the First Industrial Revolution for being absorbed in materialism and distancing itself from nature.

Detailed explanation-5: -For instance, Wordsworth writes, “This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon.” He uses personification as a method to combine human sentiments with aspects of the natural world in order to emphasize the ideal relationship between man and Earth that the speaker wishes for in a damaged society.

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