Question

Which of the following lines in “Mushrooms” contains an allusion to a Biblical passage?

A. “The small grains make room.”
B. “Our kind multiplies.”
C. “We shall by morning? Inherit the earth.”
D. “Nobody sees us,/ Stops us, betrays us.”

Answer 1

it is c we shall by morning? Inherit the earth

Answer 2

The correct answer is C.

Step-by-step explanation:

This sentence is an allusion to Jesus’s ‘Sermon on the Mount’ found in Matthew 5:5: "Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth."

In Plath's poem, the speaker are the mushrooms, who explain how they grow, overlooked and disregarded, considered to be weak. But believe that if not controlled, they can cover all of the land.