Select the correct text in the passage.
Which two lines in this excerpt from the poem "A Grain of Sand" by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper indicates its subject?
Do you see this grain of sand
Lying loosely in my hand?
Do you know to me it brought
Just a simple loving thought?
When one gazes night by night
On the glorious stars of light,
Oh how little seems the span
Measured round the life of man.
"When one gazes night by night
On the glorious stars of light"
To select the correct text in the passage that indicates the subject of the poem, we need to look for lines that directly mention or suggest what the poem is about. In this case, the subject of the poem seems to be the insignificance of human life when compared to the vastness of the universe.
The two lines that indicate this subject are:
1) "When one gazes night by night
On the glorious stars of light,"
These lines talk about looking at the stars and imply the vastness and grandeur of the universe. This suggests that the poem's subject is the comparison between the smallness of human life and the vastness of the cosmos.
So, the correct text to select in the passage would be:
"When one gazes night by night
On the glorious stars of light,"
The two lines that indicate the subject of the poem are:
- "Do you see this grain of sand"
- "Oh how little seems the span"