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
Thoughts true for all time are:
The correct answer is
felt deep inside the self.
Thinking in the marrow-bone suggests deeply felt, embodied experience. Yeats contrasts this source of lasting song with thought confined to the abstract mind.
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