Question

4. Which lines from the poem best support the correct answer to Question 3?
a. "Hardly are those words out / When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi / Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert / A shape with lion body and the head of a man, / A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, / Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it / Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds."
b. "Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer; / Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold..."
c. "The darkness drops again; but now I know / That twenty centuries of stony sleep / Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle. / And what rough beast, its hour comf round at last, / Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
d. "Surely some revelation is at hand; / Surely the Second Coming is at hand. / The Second Coming!"

Answer 1

Answer: C

Explanation:

Considering Question 3 likely relates to themes or ideas, the lines that best support it are those that evoke a sense of chaos, foreboding, or impending change. Options a, b, and c all contribute to this, but option c, with its imagery of disturbed sleep and the approach of a "rough beast," particularly emphasizes the theme of unsettling change. Therefore, the lines from option c best support the correct answer to Question 3.