Use the extract below to answer questions Line 1: My heart leaps up when I behold Line 2: A rainbow in the sky Line 3: so was it when my life began Line 4: so is it now Line 5: so is it when I have grown Line 6: the child is the father of the man.
The object of the extract is____?
A. childishness B. the unchanging cycle of nature C. the adverse effect of old age D. human being
Correct Answer: C
Explanation
This extract may likened with the subject matter in Lenrie Peter's 'The Panic of Growing Older', especially with the paradox in line 6, pointing to the substitution and/or reversal of strength and responsibility from a child to his father, thereafter when the father becomes of age.
