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Arrange the following lines of poetry in their chronological sequence:
A. “An aged man is but a paltry thing.”
B. “The world s too much with us.”
C. “Daddy, | have had to kill you.”
D. “After great pain, a formal feeling comes -
1. B, D, A, C
2. D, B, A, C
3. D, B, C, A
4. B, D, C, A
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B. “The world is too much with us.”
Poet: William Wordsworth
Publication: 1807
➡ Earliest among the four.
D. “After great pain, a formal feeling comes –”
Poet: Emily Dickinson
Poem likely written c. 1862 (Dickinson’s most productive period).
First published posthumously in the Atlantic Monthly in 1929.
➡ Chronologically after Wordsworth.
A. “An aged man is but a paltry thing.”
Poet: W. B. Yeats
Poem: Sailing to Byzantium
Publication: 1927; republished in the collection The Tower (1928)
C. “Daddy, I have had to kill you.”
Poet: Sylvia Plath
Poem: Daddy
Written 1962, published posthumously in 1965
➡ Latest of all four.
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