Question

Which of the following statements best summarizes the imagery used in the poem to my dear and loving husband?

A: the poet compares her love to grand parts of nature, such as rivers and gold mines.

B: the poet compares her love to being of more worth than all of the material wealth found in parts of the world, such as the east and in gold mines

C: The poet describes her love as transcending death and bringing their souls together as one

D: The poet uses a combination of natural, material, and spiritual imagery when describing her love, making her feelings seem larger than all three.

Answer 1

The imagery is described by the statement:

D: The poet uses a combination of natural, material, and spiritual imagery when describing her love, making her feelings seem larger than all three.

Step-by-step explanation:

The imagery of the poem To my dear and loving husband shows its transcendental character as a work of poetics.

It uses a variety of examples from the natural material and spiritual world to compare her love for her husband.

In this process of long drawn comparisons she is able to ache it seem that the love is bigger than them all as she is combining all the metaphors together.

This shows that she wants to convey that her love for him is beyond the three plains of existence talked about.