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:
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.
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 ____________
