Question

Read the sets of lines from the poem and answer the questions that follow.

“Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. ”

(i) What is experience compared to?

(ii) How do the lines convey that the experience is endless?

Answer 1

(i) Experience is compared to an arch.

(ii) Through the arch of experience one can see the untravelled world. But the experience in the untravelled has a margin whose border fades as one moves forward. Thus experience is endless.