Question

Which of the following two details, one from each text, support a similar theme about the past? Passage 1 I saw a Sower walking slow Across the earth, from east to west; His hair was white as mountain snow. His head drooped forward on his breast. with shriveled hands he flung his seed, Nor ever turned to look behind; of sight or sound he took no heed; It seemed he was both deaf and blind. His dim face showed no soul beneath, Yet in my heart I felt a stir, As if I looked upon the sheath That once had held Excalibur." from The Sower by James Russell Lowell Which of the following two details , one from each text , support a similar theme about the past ? Passage 1 I saw a Sower walking slow Across the earth , from east to west ; His hair was white as mountain snow . His head drooped forward on his breast . with shriveled hands he flung his seed , Nor ever turned to look behind ; of sight or sound he took no heed ; It seemed he was both deaf and blind . His dim face showed no soul beneath , Yet in my heart I felt a stir , As if I looked upon the sheath That once had held Excalibur . " from The Sower by James Russell Lowell​

Answer 1

The two details, one from each text that supports a similar theme about the past are:

• 'I sow again the holy Past,
• The happy days when I was young.

• 'Then all was wheat without a tare2,
• Then all was righteous, fair, and true;

What is the similar theme about the past?

The similar theme about the past from the two highlighted portions above is that the events of the past were better than present conditions.

In the first part, the past was referred to as holy. In the second part, the past was referred to as righteous and true.

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