A. Answer the following questions.
1. How does the poet describe the sea at the start of the poem?
2. Who had placed the Inchcape Bell and why?
3. Why is the rock called perilous?
4. Who was Ralph the Rover?
5. What did he do to the Inchcape Bell?
6. How did the other members of the crew react to the bad weather?
Answers
Answer:
Initially the poem or the ballad starts with the pleasant weather which states that neither there was movement in the air nor the sea i.e. the air was in a normal speed and so the ships could easily go through the sea, its sails received no heavy blows of air and its keel was balanced .
The bell was placed on the rock so that sailors who were sailing off the eastern coast of Scotland could know that they are close to the Inchcape Rock hidden under the waves and prevent crashing into it.
Perilous means dangerous. The Inchcape rock was perilous as it wasn't clearly visible to the sailors sailing in the sea and thus it caused many shipwrecks and deaths in the sea.
Sir Ralph rover was the evil character who played an important role in the poem. he is a man full of over confidence and wickedness. he has an evil mind and becomes rich by looting ships. he is jealous of the Abbot and therefore cuts the bell not realizing that one day even he would fall in trouble.
During a storm, the waves violently hit the Inchcape Rock and the bell that is tied on the rock by the Abbot of Aberbrothok, shakes violently making a loud sound that can be head by the sailors at a far distance. ... Thus, the sailors avoid the way where the bell ring.
they react in a staunch way One of them exclaims when they strike the inchcape rock
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