Question

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "A Child Asleep" _____.

a) uses the child sleeping as metaphor
b) is written in blank verse
c) describes the child as more beautiful than flowers
d) demonstrates the author's concern for the role of women

Answer 1

the answer is going to be A.

Answer 2

The correct answer is option c) "describes the child as more beautiful than flowers". Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem "A Child Asleep" describes the wonderful feeling that is to contemplate a child sleeping. By the third stanza of the poem the author states that "Heaven-flowers, rayed by shadows golden, from the paths they sprang beneath" verses that implie that the child is more beautiful than flowers.