Question

Reluctance

Robert Frost
OUT through the fields and the woods
And over the walls I have wended;
I have climbed the hills of view
And looked at the world, and descended;
I have come by the highway home,
And lo, it is ended.
The leaves are all dead on the ground,
Save those that the oak is keeping
To ravel them one by one
And let them go scraping and creeping
Out over the crusted snow,
When others are sleeping.
And the dead leaves lie huddled and still,
No longer blown hither and thither;
The last lone aster is gone;
The flowers of the witch-hazel wither;
The heart is still aching to seek,
But the feet question 'Whither?'
Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of things,
To yield with a grace to reason,
And bow and accept and accept the end
Of a love or a season?

Read these lines from "Reluctance":
OUT through the fields and the woods
And over the walls I have wended;
I have climbed the hills of view
And looked at the world, and descended

Which element of this text suggests a time period long ago?
The repetition of the word "and"
The phrase "looked at the world"
The description of the hills
The use of the word wended

Reluctance
Robert Frost

OUT through the fields and the woods
And over the walls I have wended;
I have climbed the hills of view
And looked at the world, and descended;
I have come by the highway home,
And lo, it is ended.
The leaves are all dead on the ground,
Save those that the oak is keeping
To ravel them one by one
And let them go scraping and creeping
Out over the crusted snow,
When others are sleeping.
And the dead leaves lie huddled and still,
No longer blown hither and thither;
The last lone aster is gone;
The flowers of the witch-hazel wither;
The heart is still aching to seek,
But the feet question 'Whither?'
Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of things,
To yield with a grace to reason,
And bow and accept and accept the end
Of a love or a season?

Which of the following best describes "Reluctance"?

Argumentation and evidence
A basic list of qualities
General discussion of ideas
Narration and description

Answer 1

The answers are the following:1. The element of this text suggests a time period long ago is The use of the word wended. The word wended will tell the readers that it is from long time ago.2. Reluctance means Narration and description. Through this, you will be able to know the full meaning of the word and the text to be more understandable.

Answer 2

1. I believe the correct answer is: The use of the word wended.

In these lines from the poem “Reluctance” written by Robert Frost, an American poet, in 1913, the element that suggests a time period long ago is the use of the word “wended”. Word wended is used to describe an indirect route or going into a specified direction, typically slowly.

In this poem, the subject says that he wended over the walls, hills, fields and woods which would suggest that he has wandered for long period of time.

2. I believe the correct answer is: Narration and description.

I believe that narration and description best describes Robert Frost’s poem "Reluctance" of the following choices. In this poem narration and description prevail as the narrator is talking about and describing his travels that have finally led him back home, but he is dismayed to find nothing left for him but the dead leaves of the winter season.

The description is important detail which represents subject’s emotions. As this poem has personal, autobiographical event as a background, we can say that the description of the winter represent Frost’s feelings. Namely, this poem was written when he was rejected by his wife to be.