Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow: No worst, there is none. No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief, More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring. Comforter, where, where is your comforting? Mary, mother of us, where is your relief? My cries heave, herds‐long; huddle in a main, a chief Woe, wórld‐sorrow; on an áge‐old anvil wince and sing— Then lull, then leave off. Fury had shrieked 'No lingering! Let me be fell: force I must be brief."' O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no‐man‐fathomed. Hold them cheap May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small Durance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep, Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all Life death does end and each day dies with sleep. ‐ Gerard Manley Hopkins
Which option most closely paraphrases the second line, in which further pangs are “schooled at forepangs” and “wilder wring”?
only a new pain more painful.
The line anticipates new pain that is more painful: later pangs are figuratively trained by earlier ones and wring the sufferer more fiercely. It therefore does not say that the present suffering cannot intensify.
Important Questions from Reading Comprehension
What is the meaning of ‘intrigued’?
What are ice shelves?
What are icebergs?
When the iceberg turns upside down, it appears ________.
The use of science in its simple form has helped man to ____________
