XAT 2017 — VARC Question 6
Read the following stanza and answer the question that follows:
âââââââInvisible atoms coming together
Revealing themselves in visible forms
Seeds are hugged by the earth
Which renders them as gardens in bloom.
And yonder stars, are they not pearls
Floating on teeming seas?
Scattered, yet strung together in orderly constellations
Love binding them to one another
And each is perpetually seeking its like?
Which of the following options best captures the spirit of the above stanza?
Answer & solution
- A
Stars and seas are similar.
- B
All rivers flow into the ocean.
- C
United we stand, divided we fall.
- D
Love dissolves all religious differences.
Something invisible binds disparate objects.
The poem talks about seemingly dissimilar items actually seeking each other and also connected with each other. Invisible atoms which may be of different types, such as seeds and earth, or stars and seas, each of these groups of dissimilar items are finally connected. Hence, Option 5 best captures the spirit of the stanza. Options 1 and 2 are specific examples related to stars, rivers and seas. Option 3 is wrong as there is nothing mentioned about division in the stanza. Option 4 is wrong as the stanza does not talk about religious differences.
Hence, the correct answer is option 5.