Question

1. “But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from heav'n Than when I was a boy." Who says this and in which poem? How did the speaker feel and think when he was ‘a boy'? How does he feel 'now'?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Hood recalls how he used to think the tall fir trees were nearly touching heaven at their tops. Now he's older but not necessarily wiser: he knows that the fir trees aren't touching heaven in the sky, but he misses his childhood ignorance and feels 'farther off from heav'n' now than 'when I was a boy'.07-Oct-2018