Answer:
DRAG:
1. It had stopped beating
2. ,but I cannot account for it
(I have since been inducted to come to the opinion that it must have been there all the time, and must have been beating)
Answer:
The meaning is actively looking for happiness.
Explanation:
Pursue is somewhat like a chase of sorts, so imagine happiness is a robber and the pursuers are the cops following it. You are chasing after happiness to try to get it.
But how to answer, you have not even told the name of the Poem.
Complexity, abundance of output, revolt against tradition, love of nature,pity for the poor and the suffering, disillusionment, loss of faith in religion, the metaphysical note, the romantic strain, the influence of music and other fine arts and new techniques are main trends of modern poetry.
Possibly they wanted general freedoms?
