ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What line does the speaker suggest that we are concerned with materials?
A
The world is too much with us late and soon
B
We have given our hearts away a sordid boon
C
Little we see in nature that is ours
D
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

Detailed explanation-2: -What line does the speaker suggest that we are concerned with materials? The world is too much with us late and soon. We have given our hearts away from a sordid boon.

Detailed explanation-3: -Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. The poem opens with a complaint, saying that the world is out of whack and that people are destroying themselves with consumerism ("getting and spending").

Detailed explanation-4: -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-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.

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