EXTRACT:
1. ‘I wind about, and in and out,
With here a blossom sailing,
And here and there a lusty trout,
And here and there a grayling.’
a. Who does ‘I’ refer to in the above extract? What is the poetic device employed by
the poet in the above lines?
b. What are the things found floating in the brook? What does it indicate about
the brook?
c. What does the verse, ‘I wind about, and in and out’ mean?
2. ‘And out again I curve and flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.’
a. What does the brook tell us about its journey?
b. Which is the destination of brook and how does it reach there?
c. What is the parallelism draw by the poet between the brook’s journey and man’s
journey of life?
SHORT ANSWER QUESTION
3. The brook is a source of life. Elucidate the statement by giving instances from
the poem.
LONG ANSWER QUESTION
4. Imagine that you are a contemporary brook and write how you dread passing
through the city.
1. ‘I wind about, and in and out,
With here a blossom sailing,
And here and there a lusty trout,
And here and there a grayling.’
a. 'I' is the brook. the poet uses personification to give human-like qualities to an inanimate object.
b. There are flowers, leaves and twigs found floating on the surface of the brook. One can see fish of all kinds too in the brook. It shows that the brook has covered a long journey and that it can support life.
c. The brook moves in a zigzag and haphazard fashion as it makes its way through hills and plains.
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With here a blossom sailing,
And here and there a lusty trout,
And here and there a grayling.’
a. 'I' is the brook. the poet uses personification to give human-like qualities to an inanimate object.
b. There are flowers, leaves and twigs found floating on the surface of the brook. One can see fish of all kinds too in the brook. It shows that the brook has covered a long journey and that it can support life.
c. The brook moves in a zigzag and haphazard fashion as it makes its way through hills and plains.
For assistance on the remaining queries, kindly post a single question in one thread.