Multiple choice

What is being compared to the unfolding bud in this poem?

Directions: Read the following poem carefully and 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. The beginning of a day

  2. A blossoming lily plant

  3. A good poem

  4. The imagination of a poet
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The poem explicitly compares a poem to a 'tiny bud' that is 'tight-closed' and then describes how the poem 'gradually unfolds, revealing its rich inner self' as one reads it again. Option C correctly identifies that a poem is being compared to the unfolding bud. The water-lily bud is the subject of comparison, not what is being compared.

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