Comprehension Passage
Read the given poem extract carefully and answer the following questions.
‘’Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!
Bird thou never wert,
That from Heaven, or near it,
Pourest thy full heart
In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.
Higher still and higher
From the earth thou springest
Like a cloud of fire;
The blue deep thou wingest,
And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.’’
What does the speaker imply by saying "Bird thou never wert" in the first stanza?
1
The bird is incapable of singing.
2
The bird is not physically present.
3
The bird has an otherworldly nature.
4
The bird is not truly a bird, but a metaphor for something else.