Question

3. Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup,
And the sound of iron on stone,
And how the silence surged softly backward,
When the plunging hoofs were gone.
a) Who is referred to as ‘they’?
b) Where were ‘they’?
c) What did ‘they’ hear?
d) Identify the literary device used in the third line of the above extract?
it is from the poem The Listeners !!!!

Answer 1

Answer:

the gnome

in the forest

the sound of hooves

metaphor