Which work is described as 'the road feels heavier because the traveler does not want to leave'?

Which work is described as 'the road feels heavier because the traveler does not want to leave'?

• A. Carl Sandburg, Window, 1914
• B. John Masefield, Sea Fever, 1902
• C. Du Fu, Travelling Again, 761 CE
• D. William Shakespeare, Sonnet 50, 1609

Answer: (D)

The idea being tested is how poets turn travel into a symbolism of emotional hesitation, using the road itself as a weight when someone doesn’t want to leave. In Shakespeare’s Sonnet 50, the speaker is grappling with parting and the sorrow that comes with moving away from someone loved. The road is described as heavy precisely because the traveler would rather stay, so the physical act of leaving is rendered as an emotional burden. This ties the act of moving forward to the feeling of attachment, making the movement itself feel almost oppressive. Other selections approach travel or longing from different angles: one centers on observing through a window, another on a restless desire for the sea, and another on the fatigue of traveling in a distant era. None of them encode the specific image of a road growing heavier due to reluctance to depart in the way Shakespeare’s sonnet does, so the described sentiment best matches that work.

The idea being tested is how poets turn travel into a symbolism of emotional hesitation, using the road itself as a weight when someone doesn’t want to leave. In Shakespeare’s Sonnet 50, the speaker is grappling with parting and the sorrow that comes with moving away from someone loved. The road is described as heavy precisely because the traveler would rather stay, so the physical act of leaving is rendered as an emotional burden. This ties the act of moving forward to the feeling of attachment, making the movement itself feel almost oppressive.

Other selections approach travel or longing from different angles: one centers on observing through a window, another on a restless desire for the sea, and another on the fatigue of traveling in a distant era. None of them encode the specific image of a road growing heavier due to reluctance to depart in the way Shakespeare’s sonnet does, so the described sentiment best matches that work.