Directions : Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow by selecting the correct/most appropriate options : Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful world, With the wonderful water around you curled, And the wonderful grass upon your breast World, you are beautifully drest. The wonderful air is over me, And the wonderful wind is shaking the tree, It walks on the water, and whirls the mills, And talks to itself on the tops of the hills. You friendly Earth, how far do you go, With the wheat - fields that nod and the rivers that flow With cities and gardens, and cliffs and isles, And people upon you for thousands of miles ? Ah ! You are so great and I am so small, I tremble to think of you, world, at all; And yet when I said my prayers today, A whisper inside me seemed to say, "You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot, You can love and think, and the Earth cannot !" In the extract the poet has compared :
In the given extract, the poet has indeed compared man with the Earth, which is why Option 1 is the correct answer. Let's delve into the reasoning behind this: 1. Explanation for Option 1 (Correct Answer): - The poet reflects on the vastness and grandeur of the Earth, describing it as "great, wide, beautiful, wonderful." This sets up a contrast with the poet's own sense of smallness, as expressed in…Read More
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