Multiple choice

What, according to the poet, is the striking similarity between a good poem and an unfolding bud?

Directions: Read the following poem to answer the given question.

UNFOLDING BUD            
One is amazed
By a water-lily bud
Unfolding
With each passing day

Taking a richer colour
And new dimensions
One is not amazed,
At a first glance,
By a poem,
Which is as tight-closed
As a tiny bud.
Yet one is surprised
To see the poem
Gradually unfolding,
Revealing its rich inner self
As one reads it
Again

Naoshi Koriyama 

  1. Both are colourful and beautiful.

  2. Both are pretty ordinary looking in the beginning.

  3. The development of a bud and writing a poem are both hard to achieve and time consuming.

  4. If you have the patience, both the bud and the poem will give you the sense of real beauty.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

 The poet says that a good poem and a bud reveal additional layers if one is patient.

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