In "Solitude," what can be inferred about the author's relationship with the natural world? He prefers the natural world to the company of other people.
He feels that human society has become too cold and impersonal.
He is happiest in nature when it is at its most unpleasant.
He feels lonely only when there are no animals around.

Question 2

Part B

Which sentence best supports the answer in Part A?

“I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.”
“I go and come with a strange liberty in Nature, a part of herself.”
“Some of my pleasantest hours were during the long rain storms in the spring or fall.”
“They are Nature’s watchmen,—links which connect the days of animated life.”

Which lines in this excerpt from act ii of william shakespeare’s romeo and juliet reveal that mercutio thinks romeo would be better off if he stopped thinking about love? mercutio: i will bite thee by the ear for that jest. romeo: nay, good goose, bite not. mercutio: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting it is a most sharp sauce. romeo: and is it not well served in to a sweet goose? mercutio: o here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad! romeo: i stretch it out for that word 'broad; ' which added to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose. mercutio: why, is not this better now than groaning for love? now art thou sociable, now art thou romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature: for this drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. benvolio: stop there, stop there. mercutio: thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair. benvolio: thou wouldst else have made thy tale large. mercutio: o, thou art deceived; i would have made it short: for i was come to the whole depth of my tale; and meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.