Question

Which line from "Monet’s ‘Waterlilies’” by Robert Hayden best demonstrates the speaker’s regret about the effects of violence and destruction in the world?

“Here space and time exist in light”
“The seen, the known / dissolve”
“O light beheld as through refracting tears.”
“Here is the shadow of its joy.”

Answer 1

• “Here is the shadow of its joy.”

Step-by-step explanation:

The speaker in Robert Hayden's American piece, "Monet's Waterlilies," tries to rise above the melancholy expedited by tuning in to the news reports of the day, discovering upliftment in the artistic creations of Claude Monet, the French Impressionist.

The ballad includes a wonderful case of an American (or Innovative) piece that consolidates the English quatrain with the Italian sestet. The captivating advancement puts the sestet between the two quatrains in an unrimed, varied line-length sonnet.