Use the extract below to answer questions
Line 1: My heart leaps up when I behold
Line 2: A rainbow in the sky
Line 3: so was it when my life began
Line 4: so is it now
Line 5: so is it when I have grown
Line 6: the child is the father of the man.
A. childishness
B. the unchanging cycle of nature
C. the adverse effect of old age
D. human being
Correct Answer: Option C
C. the adverse effect of old age
Explanation
This extract may be likened with the subject matter in Lenrie Peter’s ‘The Panic of Growing Older’, especially with the paradox in line 6, pointing to the substitution and/or reversal of strength and responsibility from a child to his father, thereafter when the father becomes of age.
