English Literature - Poetry and Poetic Devices

English Literature
English Literature - Poetry and Poetic Devices

"Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing ………. to bind us to the earth". Fill in the blank with the correct option on the basis of your reading of the poem 'A Thing of Beauty' by Keats :


Options:

  1. A flowery band
  2. A rosy creeper
  3. A shady boon
  4. A flowery garland

Right Answer: A flowery band

The line comes from the opening verse paragraph of Keats’s ‘Endymion’, prescribed as ‘A Thing of Beauty’. The poet says that in spite of despondence, the inhuman dearth of noble natures and the gloomy days, some shape of beauty always moves away the pall from our dark spirits, and therefore on every morrow we are wreathing a flowery band to bind us to the earth. The metaphor turns beauty into a garland of flowers that ties us happily to life. The sun, the moon, trees, daffodils, clear rills and the grandeur of the mighty dead are his examples.

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