Question

Which statement best describes the theme of "A Day for Wandering"?

The country is better than the city because it is more beautiful.
Being among nature’s beauty can make a person feel small.
One must appreciate nature’s beauty in order to understand life.
The beauty of nature is fleeting and may one day disappear.
A Day for Wandering
by Clinton Scollard
I set apart a day for wandering;
I heard the woodlands ring,
The hidden white-throat sing,
And the harmonic West,
Beyond a far hill-crest,
Touch its Aeolian string.
Remote from all the brawl and bruit of men,
The iron tongue of Trade,
I followed the clear calling of a wren
Deep to the bosom of a sheltered glade,
Where interwoven branches spread a shade
Of soft cool beryl like the evening seas
Unruffled by the breeze.
And there—and there—
I watched the maiden-hair,
The pale blue iris-grass,
The water-spider in its pause and pass
Upon a pool that like a mirror was.
I took for confidant
The diligent ant
Threading the clover and the sorrel aisles;
For me were all the smiles
Of the sequestered blossoms there abloom—
Chalice and crown and plume
I drank the ripe rich attars blurred and blent,
And won—Content!

Answer 1

The correct answer is, The country is better than the city because it is more beautiful.

Explanation: I took the test

Answer 2

B. One must appreciate nature’s beauty in order to understand life.

In the poem, “A Day for Wandering,” the narrator tells us that he set aside a day for aimlessly experiencing nature. In his experiences of that day, he mentions experiences of the five human senses in hearing (the woodlands ring), touching (Aeolian string), watching (the maiden-hair), and tasting/smelling (the perfume or “attars”). It is through this sensory experience, which is how humans experience life and come to understand it, that he wins the feeling of content. As such, to understand life, and because we use our senses to come to this understanding, a guaranteed way to come to do so is to appreciate/experience nature’s beauty because of all the senses involved.