Th e change in tone beginning in line 9 is best explained as
(A) a change from being wistful to willful
(B) a change from regretful to remorseful
(C) a change from scolding to lamenting
(D) a change from being forlorn to bitter
(E) a change from desperation to optimism
Passage 5. William Wordsworth, “Th e world is too much with us”
Th e world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
Th is Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
Th e Winds that will be howling at all hours
And are up-gathered now like sleeping fl owers;
For this, for every thing, we are out of tune;
It moves us not—Great God! I’d rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus coming from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.