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The World
Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful world,
With the wonderful water round 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 top of the hills.
You friendly earth, how far you go,
With 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 to -day,
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!"
Available Answers
- 1.
Read the poem and note down the rhyme scheme. Which line in the poem do you like best? Why?
- 2.
The world has been treated as a person in the poem. This is the way poets present inanimate objects as humans, having human qualities. This poetic device is called 'personification'. One example in the poem are the lines, 'the wonderful grass upon your breast'. - the poet personifies the world as a beautiful lady dressed in a green gown. Find and write another example of personification from the poem.
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Alliteration is the repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of each or most of the words in a sentence. The poem has many such examples of alliteration- wide, wonderful world is one such example. Find and write another example of alliteration from the poem.
- 4.
You will notice that the last two lines of the poem are longer than the previous shorter ones and this makes a contrast. What is the main idea of the poem that the poet wishes to convey?
- 5.
The poet is an admirer of the world and its beauty. Give one example of how he describes the world.
- 6.
The air has also been personified as a person. What are the wonderful things the wind does?
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