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Use the extract below to answer questions Line 1: My heart leaps up when I ...

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.


The object of the extract is____?
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  • A Childishness
  • B The unchanging cycle of nature
  • C The adverse effect of old age
  • D Human being
Correct Answer: Option C
Explanation:
This extract may 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.

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