Question

3. To know that I'm farther off from heaven.
a. Why did the poet feel closer to heaven earlier?
b. Why does the poet feel farther off from heaven now?
c. How does the knowledge of being farther away affect the poet?​

Answer 1

Answer:

a)poet was really closer to the heaven when he was child. He thinks so because the childhood life is very innocent stage in which there is no tension and risk of doing work.

b)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 bo

c)is a reflective poem in which the poet is looking back at his childhood, and it is rather sentimental. In the poem, Hood initially portrays his childhood and the house where he was born. Those beautiful days where the sun rays came and beautiful days were there in the proportion.