Question

“We are laid asleep in body and become a living soul.” which poem of Wordsworth having this line?

(A) Immortality

(B) Ode Tintern Abbey

(C) The Prelude

(D) The Excursion​

Answer 1

(B) Ode Tintern Abbey

Step-by-step explanation:

The line "We are laid asleep in body and become a living soul" is from the poem Ode: Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth.

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The poem is about Wordsworth's experience of returning to the Wye Valley, where he had visited five years earlier. He describes how his feelings for the landscape have deepened over time, and how he now sees it with a "living soul". The line in question comes in the second stanza, when he describes how he feels "laid asleep in body" and "becomes a living soul" when he is in nature.

The other poems in the options are also by Wordsworth, but they do not contain the line in question.

• Immortality is a sonnet about the power of memory to preserve the past.
• The Prelude is an autobiographical poem about Wordsworth's childhood and early adulthood.
• The Excursion is a long poem about the relationship between nature and human experience.