Question

Which line best demonstrates allusion in the poem?

Question 11 options:

“I remember the very softness”


“So Eden sank to grief”


“And you, O my soul where you stand”


“And a voice less loud, through its joys and fears”

Answer 1

"So Eden sank to grief" because this referring to the biblical fall of Adam and Eve from the garden of eden. When Eve ate forbidden fruit, she and Adam, and all their descendents, were forever punished by being banished from Eden and subject to all of the grief that we humans know today.