Question

What is the effect of the words "the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across an hundred years”? The personification suggests that the happiness of the past is eternal. The metaphor shows that happiness is “alive” but can only be found in others. The metaphor illustrates that nothing changes over the course of one hundred years. The personification allows the reader to imagine life in the past.

Answer 1

The effect of the words quoted from The Gardener 85 by Rabindranath Tagore is the following: The personification suggests that the happiness of the past is eternal.

In the poem, Rabindranath wishes to share the flowers and happines from the sping he is living with the reader, even if he reads it a hundred years after he writes the poem itself. Therefore he states "In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across an hundred years", suggesting that the joy in the air on the moment he wrote the poem will last for so long that any reader at any time (even a hundred years later) could be able to feel it.

Answer 2

 The author uses the personification, suggesting that the happiness is eternal by the words "an hundred years". The happiness is expressed in "the linving joy" and "glad voice". A glad voice that sang with a living voice was sent across a long period, a hundred years, meaning forever.

The correct answer is A.