The following poem is excerpted from a nineteenth-century work.
The shuttle flies, a silver-headed bee,
Weaving the garden’s simulated spring:
A thread of gold for every birdsong free,
A stitch of green to make the linnet sing.
Here summer sits, arrested in her prime,
Untouched by autumn’s cold, corrupting breath,
Securely fenced against the tooth of time,
A painted triumph over dust and death.
But turn the frame: the hanging's hidden side
Reveals a wild, chaotic drift of thread,
Where knots like strangled birds in shadows hide,
And tangled warps like broken branches spread;
No shape remains, no sweet, symmetrical grace,
Only the dark, confused, and bleeding seams
Where faceless hands in this forgotten place
Tore out the pattern of their waking dreams.
In the poem, which of the following best describes the primary function of the shift in focus from the tapestry's face to its "hidden side" (line 9)?
- Areveal the poet’s autobiographical despair regarding their own lack of artistic success during their lifetime.
- Bprovide a detailed summary of how a weaver physically constructs the back of a tapestry step by step.
- challenge the viewer’s untroubled appreciation of the artwork by exposing the chaotic labor and fragmentation that underpin its creation.Cevap
- Demphasize the eternal, unchanging beauty of the garden scene depicted on the front of the hanging.
- Ecatalogue the metaphors and alliteration used in the first stanza to prove that natural beauty is inherently superior to artistic representation.