Which line from the poem most clearly suggests the author's attitude?
A) I have come by the highway home
B) Save those that the oak is keeping
C) The heart is still aching to seek
D) To go with the drift of things
Poem: OUT through the fields and the woods
And over the walls I have wended;
I have climbed the hills of view
And looked at the world, and descended;
I have come by the highway home,
And lo, it is ended.
The leaves are all dead on the ground,
Save those that the oak is keeping
To ravel them one by one
And let them go scraping and creeping
Out over the crusted snow,
When others are sleeping.
And the dead leaves lie huddled and still,
No longer blown hither and thither;
The last lone aster is gone;
The flowers of the witch-hazel wither;
The heart is still aching to seek,
But the feet question 'Whither?'
Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of things,
To yield with a grace to reason,
And bow and accept and accept the end
Of a love or a season?
Answer:
C) The heart is still aching to seek
Explanation:
The line from the poem that most clearly suggests the author's attitude is "The heart is still aching to seek".
This is because, the poet talks about aching to seek out more things out there rather than being confined to one place without exploring the various sides of life.
