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from The Fugitive

For once be careless, timid traveller, and utterly lose your way, wide-awake though you are, be like broad daylight enticed by and netted in mist.

5 Do not shun the garden of Lost Hearts waiting at the end of the wrong road, where the grass is strewn with wrecked red flowers, and disconsolate water heaves in the troubled sea.

10 Long have you watched over the store gathered by weary years. Let it be stripped, with nothing remaining but the desolate triumph of losing all.

Part A

What is the speaker's point of view about traveling?

1. Traveling may lead to feeling lonely and sad.

2. Appreciate both land and sea while traveling.

3. Embrace the discomfort that comes with traveling.

4. Traveling often brings about unforeseen problems.

Part B

Select two details from the poem that together best support the correct answer from Part A.

1. "For once be careless, timid traveller, / and utterly lose your way" (Lines 1-2)

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2. "be like broad daylight / enticed by and netted in mist." (Lines 3-4)

3. "where the grass is strewn with/wrecked red flowers, and disconsolate / water heaves in the troubled sea." (Lines 7-9)

4. "Long have you watched over the / store gathered by weary years." (Lines 10-11)

5. "Let it /be stripped, with nothing remaining but / the desolate triumph of losing all." (Lines 11-13)

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Part A

The speaker's point of view about traveling is best represented by:

3. Embrace the discomfort that comes with traveling.

Part B

The two details from the poem that best support the answer from Part A are:

  1. "For once be careless, timid traveller, / and utterly lose your way" (Lines 1-2)

  2. "Let it / be stripped, with nothing remaining but / the desolate triumph of losing all." (Lines 11-13)

These lines suggest a willingness to let go of control and accept the unpredictability and discomfort of the journey.