Question
Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow: A Prayer for Old Age God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone; He that sings a lasting song Thinks in a marrow‐bone; From all that makes a wise old man That can be praised of all; O what am I that I should not seem For the song's sake a fool? I pray‐‐for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again ‐‐ That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man. ‐ W.B.Yeats
In the second stanza the poet thinks of:
The correct answer is
what he does not want to appear.
The speaker asks to be protected from becoming the conventionally wise old man admired by everyone. For poetry’s sake, he accepts appearing foolish instead.
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