Question

1.Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.

Every tinkle on the shingles
Has an echo in the heart;
And a thousand dreamy fancies
Into busy being start

(a) Explain ‘tinkle on the shingles’.
(b)What does the expression ‘dreamy fancies’ refer to?
(c)Which poetic device has been used in the last line of the stanza?
(d)What echoes in the poet’s heart?

2.What is the significance of the expression ‘Melancholy darkness’?

3.Explain ‘Darling dreamers’
4.What does the poet mean when he says ‘O! I feel her fond look on me’?
5.How does the poet express his sorrow when he speaks about rain?

Answer 1

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