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In the poem 'Ode to a Skylark' the Poet viewed the skylark as a ...........

ABird

BDream

CSpirit

DMuse

Answer:

C. Spirit

Read Explanation:

  • 'Ode to a Skylark' is written by famous English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

  • He was radical in thought

  •   Shelly was born in Sussex, England and was the son of rich landowner.

  • First stanza of the poem "To a Skylark" is given below.

Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!

Bird thou never wert,

That from Heaven, or near it,

Pourest thy full heart

In profuse strains of unpremeditated

  • Here the poet addresses the bird as a "blithe spirit" and imagined that is not a fleshy creature, but a spirit, pure and simple.


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