Read the poem.

excerpt from “ode: intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood” by william wordsworth

in this poem, wordsworth conveys his belief that as people age, they lose sight of the joy and purity of life that they experienced as children.

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our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:

the soul that rises with us, our life's star,

hath had elsewhere its setting,

and cometh from afar:

not in entire forgetfulness,

and not in utter nakedness,

but trailing clouds of glory do we come

from god, who is our home:

heaven lies about us in our infancy!

shades of the prison-house begin to close

upon the growing boy,

but he beholds the light, and whence it flows,

he sees it in his joy;

the youth, who daily farther from the east

must travel, still is nature's priest,

and by the vision splendid

is on his way attended;

at length the man perceives it die away,

and fade into the light of common day.

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earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own;

yearnings she hath in her own natural kind,

and, even with something of a mother's mind,

and no unworthy aim,

the homely nurse doth all she can

to make her foster-child, her inmate man,

forget the glories he hath known,

and that imperial palace whence he came.

which lines from the poem best support the inference that humans are divine by nature?

select each correct answer.

"and fade into the light of common day."

"but trailing clouds of glory do we come / from god, who is our home: "

"earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; "

"and no unworthy aim, / the homely nurse doth all she can"

"the soul that rises with us, our life's star,"

answer:

the soul that rises with us, our life's star,

explanation:

what: when quoting a source, use the author’s words verbatim, or word-for-word. this means you shouldn’t change any grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc. put quotations around the words to tell your reader where the quote begins and where it ends.

you also need to acknowledge the author. for example, if using mla format for your research paper, you should have in-text citations with the author’s name and page number listed at the end of each quote.

when: use quotations to provide concrete examples to support your claims. using direct quotations is a great way to build your credibility on the subject. it’s also a good idea to quote your source when the author states things in a powerful way. if you think he or she said it best, then use the exact words to share the ideas.

example: in the short story “a jury of her peers”, mrs. hale compares mrs. wright to her caged bird, saying “she—come to think of it, she was kind of like a bird herself. real sweet and pretty, but kind of timid and—fluttery. how—she—did—change” (glaspell).

paraphrasing

what: paraphrasing differs from quoting because you restate the passage in your own words. since you don’t use the author’s words, you don’t need to use quotation marks. however, you still need to acknowledge the author for his or her ideas.

when paraphrasing a text, you should communicate the full meaning of the text; don’t change the meaning. it can be a condensed version of the text, or it could end up being longer than the source it’s paraphrasing.

when: you use paraphrasing when you take notes, or explain a chart or diagram to someone. paraphrasing highlight the important parts of a larger text. it also allows you to simplify the ideas for your readers.

example:

original: “it was no ordinary thing that called her away–it was probably further from ordinary than anything that had ever happened in dickson county. but what her eye took in was that her kitchen was in no shape for leaving: her bread all ready for mixing, half the flour sifted and half unsifted” (glaspell).

paraphrase: as mrs. hales walks around mrs. wright’s home, she notices that the kitchen is in disarray as if she was in the middle of baking bread (glaspell).

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