Question

What does the sunflower symbolize in William Blake's "Ah! Sunflower"? Ah! Sunflower by William Blake Ah, sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun; Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveller's journey is done; Where the Youth pined away with desire, And the pale virgin shrouded in snow, Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my Sunflower wishes to go! A. a person who is fatigued by daily responsibilities B. a person yearning for spiritual or mental enlightenment C. a person who finds beauty in the natural world D. a person no longer young and thinking about life E. a person contemplating the meaning of a small flower

Answer 1

The best anwer from the choices given here in the list, to answer the question: What does the sunflower symbolize in William Blake´s "Ah, Sunflower"?, would be: D: A person who is no longer young and thinking about life.

Step-by-step explanation:

"Ah! Sun-flower is an illustrated poem by Wiliam Blake and which was published originally in 1794. The poem, which is very short, and which uses several symblisms in it, seems to have a lot of themes that are represented in the light of these symbols: the sunflower, the youth and the virgin. In the case of the sunflower, and of this excerpt here, the sunflowers image gives the reader the idea of someone who is already conceiving something above this mortal and wearisome earth, the flower, tends to look towards the Sun, and the image of something beyond the darkness on this Earth. Thus, a reader gets the impression of someone whose years have passed by, and instead of looking down to the earth, looks up towards the place of happiness, where the Sun always, and where he wishes to go. At the same time, it gives the image of someone reflecting about their own lives, and how now their soul is seeking that which only this place, where the sun shines, can provide.