Answer these questions.
1. What makes the poet's heart leap?
2 How does he react to the rainbow as a man?
3. In this poem, the poet expresses a deep appreciation for natures beaut what does he feel will happen to him if he stops appreciating its beauty?
4. Quote a line that the poet is man, as opposed to a child.
5. The Child is father of the Man' means
a. children care for and bring up
their parents
b.one's habits and behaviour in childhood decides what their
behaviour as adults
c. the child has grown up
6. The poet wishes that all his life will be 'Bound each to each by
natural piety. By this he means that he wishes that
a. he will always have a deep regard for nature
b. tie up the years of his life
c. he will be a religious man
7. Match the words from the poem to their synonyms.
Answers
The poem begins in the present tense: the speaker says his heart "leaps up" when he sees a rainbow. ... The rainbow thus makes the speaker feel connected not only to nature, but also to his past self. This sense of continuity from childhood to adulthood, in turn, gives the speaker hope for a happy old age.
The speaker's response to the rainbow, he says, is that his heart "leaps up" for joy, when he sees ("beholds") a rainbow in the sky. He saw, and took pleasure in, rainbows when he was born and when he was a baby, he still takes huge pleasure in them now that he is a man, and he hopes - if not, he'd rather die!
My Heart Leaps Up" is a short lyric poem by the Romantic poet William Wordsworth. It was written on March 26, 1802 (while Wordsworth was living at Dove Cottage in the scenic Lake District of northern England, according to the diary his sister Dorothy kept of their day-to-day lives), and later published in 1807 as part of Wordsworth's Poems, in Two Volumes. Like many of his poems from this period, "My Heart Leaps Up" was inspired by nature, as the speakers describes the feeling of joy upon seeing a simple rainbow.
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Answer:
1) The poem begins in the present tense: the speaker says his heart "leaps up" when he sees a rainbow. ... The rainbow thus makes the speaker feel connected not only to nature, but also to his past self. This sense of continuity from childhood to adulthood, in turn, gives the speaker hope for a happy old age.
2) The speaker's response to the rainbow, he says, is that his heart "leaps up" for joy, when he sees ("beholds") a rainbow in the sky. He saw, and took pleasure in, rainbows when he was born and when he was a baby, he still takes huge pleasure in them now that he is a man, and he hopes - if not, he'd rather die!
3) I don't know
4) William Wordsworth used the expression, "The child is the father of the man" in his famous 1802 poem, "My Heart Leaps Up," also known as "The Rainbow." This quote has made its way into popular culture.
5) The proverb 'The child is father to the man' expresses the idea that the character that we form as children stays with us into our adult life.
6) I don't know
7) I don't know