Question

Which lines in this excerpt from the poem "A Grain of Sand" by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper indicates its subject? (you can pick more than one answer)
A. Do you see this grain of sand
Lying loosely in my hand?
Do you know to me it brought
B. Just a simple loving thought?
When one gazes night by night
C. On the glorious stars of light,
D. Oh how little seems the span
Measured round the life of man.

Answer 1

Answer: the correct answer is D. Oh how little seems the span

Measured round the life of man.

Explanation: In "A grain of Sand" by Frances Ellen Watking Harper, the author reflects about how tiny is human's life compared with the enormity of universe created by God. In the same poem the author says: "...Oh! how fleeting are his years

With their smiles and their tears;

Can it be that God does care

For such atoms as we are? ..."

Answer 2

The correct answer for this question is "D. Oh how little seems the spanMeasured round the life of man." Among the following choices, the line in the excerpt from the poem "A Grain of Sand" by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper that indicates its subject is that Oh how little seems the spanMeasured round the life of man.