1. The Thorn
  2. The Idiot Boy
  3. Simon Lee
  4. Beyond
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Option 4 : Beyond

The correct answer is Beyond.

  • 'Beyond' is a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
  • The poem shows how short life really is and how the reader should cherish every moment of it.
  • The poetess writes about how she does not fear death any more, and finds heaven right around herself among her friends and loved ones.

  • Ella is an American author and poet, whose autobiography The Worlds and I was published a year before her death.
  • She is famous as the creator of the saying, "Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone."

 

  • The Thorn was written by Wordsworth in 1789, long before he was known as the progenitor of the Romantic movement through his poems in Lyrical Ballads. It is a melodramatic poem about a woman named Martha Ray, who has lost her baby and is thus quite sad.
  • The Idiot Boy was one of the most prominent inclusions in Lyrical Ballads. It is 463 lines long, and was written in five line stanzas. 
  • The full name of the poem is Simon Lee: The Old Huntsman, where Wordsworth expounds upon the vagaries of age, by describing the past and the the present of Simon Lee, a hunter.

 

Hint

  •  The Idiot Boy and Simon Lee are quite well-known. You can eliminate those choices first.
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