Question

4. What was 'a childish ignorance'?

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Answer 1

Answer:

the lack of knowledge or education.

Answer 2

the lack of knowledge or education.

In the fourth stanza the poet contrasts the child's close relationship with heaven with the rational knowledge of the grownups who lost faith on spirituality. During his childhood days he imagined that the top of the dark and huge fir tree was close to the heaven. At present he understood it as childish ignorance.