Which statement best describes the theme of "A Day for Wandering"?

The country is better than the city because it is more beautiful.

Being among nature’s beauty can make a person feel small.

One must appreciate nature’s beauty in order to understand life.

The beauty of nature is fleeting and may one day disappear.

A Day for Wandering

by Clinton Scollard

I set apart a day for wandering;

I heard the woodlands ring,

The hidden white-throat sing,

And the harmonic West,

Beyond a far hill-crest,

Touch its Aeolian string.

Remote from all the brawl and bruit of men,

The iron tongue of Trade,

I followed the clear calling of a wren

Deep to the bosom of a sheltered glade,

Where interwoven branches spread a shade

Of soft cool beryl like the evening seas

Unruffled by the breeze.

And there—and there—

I watched the maiden-hair,

The pale blue iris-grass,

The water-spider in its pause and pass

Upon a pool that like a mirror was.

I took for confidant

The diligent ant

Threading the clover and the sorrel aisles;

For me were all the smiles

Of the sequestered blossoms there abloom—

Chalice and crown and plume

I drank the ripe rich attars blurred and blent,

And won—Content!

Verified Answer :

B. One
must appreciate nature’s beauty in order to understand life.


In the poem, “A Day for
Wandering,” the narrator tells us that he set aside a day for aimlessly
experiencing nature.  In his experiences
of that day, he mentions experiences of the five human senses in hearing (the
woodlands ring), touching (Aeolian string), watching (the maiden-hair), and
tasting/smelling (the perfume or “attars”).
It is through this sensory experience, which is how humans experience
life and come to understand it, that he wins the feeling of content.  As such, to understand life, and because we
use our senses to come to this understanding, a guaranteed way to come to do so
is to appreciate/experience nature’s beauty because of all the senses involved.

Answer:

The correct answer is, The country is better than the city because it is more beautiful.

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