Question

2. It was a childish ignorance.
b. Why does the poet refer to it as ‘childish?
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Answer 1

Answer:

During his childhood days, he imagined that the top of the dark and huge fir tree was close to heaven. At present, he understood it as childish ignorance.

This was because with such ignorance he lived happily in the past. Now the rational mind gives him no joy but makes him feel that heaven is a long distance away for him to reach.

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