E-STAR - Student

1. The three lines beginning, “Let sea-discoverers...”, are best understood as:

a criticism of the grand claims often made about the importance of exploration at the time

creating a parallelism between the introspective exploration of the speaker and the exploration of the new world

a celebration of the expansion of human knowledge in the form of exploration

suggesting that the ‘discovery’ made by the lovers is just as important as if not more important than that of the ‘Sea Explorers’