Read the following poem by William Wordsworth (published in 1807) carefully:
(1) The world is too much with us; late and soon,
(2) Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—
(3) Little we see in Nature that is ours;
(4) We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
(5) This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
(6) The winds that will be howling at all hours,
(7) And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
(8) For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
(9) It moves us not. —Great God! I’d rather be
(10) A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
(11) So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
(12) Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
(13) Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
(14) Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.
In the poem, how does the speaker's perspective shift in lines 9–14 ('Great God! . . . wreathèd horn')?
- AThe speaker maintains a consistently detached and analytical attitude toward nature's beauty throughout the entire poem.
- BThe speaker details the physical movements of the tides and the wind to show how the coastal weather patterns change throughout the day.
- The speaker transitions from a collective lamentation of humanity's modern alienation to an individual, passionate yearning for a deeper connection with nature.Cevap
- DThe speaker uses personification in lines 5 and 6 and allusions to Greek mythology in lines 13 and 14 to demonstrate knowledge of classical literature.
- EThe poet Wordsworth expresses his personal historical regret that the industrial revolution destroyed rural England, desiring to return to ancient Greece.