1. Answer these questions.
a) What sounds does the child hear in the night?
b) Does the child think it is (i) an animal sound or (ii) a human voice? Why do you say so?
c) What explanation does the father give for the sounds?
d) Is the child satisfied with the explanations? How do you know?
e) Which lines tell us that the child is afraid of the dark?
Answers
Answer:
A.The child hears the sound of someone whispering, murmuring, and laughing
B.The child thinks it is a human voice because the child asks who and not what.
C.The father gave explanation for the sound as the movement of trees or roaring of waves
D.No, the child was not satisfied with the explanation because he asks similar questions again and again.
E.This poem highlights the fear of a child and how his father tries to pacify him by giving various reasons.
The child in the first stanza says that he hears the sound from the wood, then the father consoles him by saying that it is just the breeze which is blowing through the trees
other stanza where the child asks the father he heard a murmuring sound
his father replied : these are the waves of the shore
but the child is not satisfied
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