Excerpt from hamlet
by william shakespeare
how weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,
seem to me all the uses of this world!
fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden,
that grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
part a
which image in the passage refers to the book of genesis?
garden
nature
rank
seed
part b
how has the author transformed the image from the book of genesis?
the speaker is old and tired.
the garden is unpleasant and overgrown.
the seeds will not grow properly.
there are too many people in the world.