Question

And he felt in his heart their strangeness,
Their stillness answering his cry,
While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf.’
1) Name the figure of speech in line 1 & 2.
2) What answer did the traveller receive?
3) Where was the horse grazing?
4) Give one word from the stanza which means ‘weird.’

Answer 1

1) The figure of speech used in line 1 & 2 is Paradox.

2) The traveller did not receive any answer from inside, because nobody spoke anything.

3) The horse was grazing under the starry and leafy sky.

4) The one word from the stanza which means ‘weird.’ is “strangeness.” The poem is "" The Listeners "" By Walter de la Mare.