50% of the poll participants selected the appropiate choice, while the other 50% were tricked into selecting an inaccurate choice.
Sylvia Plath has poems that refer to Nazis and Jews, especially her poem title “Daddy,” in which she likened Daddy to a Nazi and herself as Jew, but to make a generalization that Plath wrote about Nazis vs the Jews would not be accurate. And poll participants recognized that; no one was tricked by this choice.
William Blake wrote poems criticizing both the city of London and the doctrine of the church, but he did not write about any conflict between the city and its churches. Again, poll participants were smart enough not to be tricked by this one.
Robert Frost is noted for writing about nature, but he never pitted nature against humanity. Unfortunately, this choice tricked 50% of the poll participants.
William Wordsworth did, in fact, write a great deal about “nature's superiority vs civilization's progress,” and fortunately, 50% of the poll participants recognized this.
And again, while Shakespeare did write about love and old age, it would not be accurate to generalize that he pitted love against old age. And this choice got no votes.
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