FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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we absorb ourselves into the world
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we keep on shopping and wasting our powers
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materialism
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all of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -He gives more depth of thought to this idea when he suggests that by using our time, minds, and energy in “getting and spending” that we “lay waste our powers”. In other words, people have powers beyond that which they have tapped into because they are so busy getting and spending.
Detailed explanation-2: -Stating his dissatisfaction, Wordsworth writes “Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers” to clearly portray that people have given up their “powers”, whether that meant their livelihoods, passions, or even freedoms, (since the industrial revolution introduce the time clock), for this form of efficiency.
Detailed explanation-3: -This separation between humanity and the place we live in signifies the disregard and mistreatment of our home. “Getting and spending” implies that we humans instead focus on money.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the line ‘we lay waste our powers’ he means that these people can no longer identify with the natural world. The poet believes that we have given our hearts (the center of ourselves) away in exchange for money and material wealth.
Detailed explanation-5: -Detailed Solution. The correct answer is In pursuit of the materialistic world. The given passage is talking about humans who are busy earning and spending i.e. they waste their powers living life in this materialistic world. In this process they forget to feel nature i.e. sea, moon, winds.