B. Answer the questions briefly.
1. Where did Lochinvar come from?
2. How did he ride to Netherby gate? Write down his journey in your own words.
3. What did the bride's father ask Lochinvar when he saw him?
4. What was Lochinvar's response?
5. How has the poet described the bridegroom?
6. What was the sudden turn of events when the bride and Lochinvar stood dancing?
7. What did the bride-maidens whisper?
8. Was the Netherby clan able to catch Lochinvar and the bride? How do you know?
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Explanation:
1.Who was Lochinvar? Why did he ride to Netherby Hall?
Answer:
Lochinvar was a brave young knight who was in love with Ellen. Ellen was getting married to another person at Netherby Hall. Lochinvar came to claim her as his own.
Question 2.
What qualities of Lochinvar are highlighted in the first stanza?
Answer:
Lochinvar was confident as can be understood by the fact that he came alone and without any weapons other than his broadsword. He was faithful in love and hence came, even at the last minute, to claim his beloved.
Question 3.
Lochinvar rode the horse passionately to meet Ellen. What actions in lines 7 and 8 reveal his hurried movements?
Answer:
The lines, “He staid not for brake, and he stopped not for stone. He swam the Esk river where ford there was none.”
Question 4.
What qualities of the bridegroom are listed in stanza 2?
Answer:
He was a ‘laggard in love’, so timid that he couldn’t even express his love to Ellen, and was a ‘dastard in war’, i.e., cowardly and hardly any competition to brave Lochinvar.
Question 5.
What evidence is there in stanza 3; to show that the bridegroom was a! coward? ‘
Answer:
The bride’s father spoke to Lochinvar with his hand on his sword because the poor craven bridegroom did not say a single word.
Question 6.
How did the bride’s father receive? Lochinvar? And what did he ask him?
Answer:
With his hand on his sword, the bride’s father wanted to know whether Lochinvar had come in peace or in a war to the hall, or to dance at the bridal.
Question 7.
What answer did Lochinvar give the bride’s father?
Answer:
Lochinvar replied that he had wooed Ellen for a long time, and when he had asked Ellen’s father for permission to marry her, he had been denied permission. Still, for the sake of his old love for her; Lochinvar had come to dance the last dance with her and drink just one cup of wine with her.
Question 8.
What quality of love is highlighted by Lochinvar when he says,
a. “Love swells like the Solway, but ebbs like its tide.”
Answer:
Lochinvar wants to say that he had once loved Ellen, but upon being denied permission to marry her, had stopped loving her.
b. Does this truly reflect Lochinvar’s love for Ellen?
Answer:
No. It hides his true love for her.
c. If not, why does Lochinvar tell him what is not true?
Answer:
The bride’s father is surrounded by his brothers, kinsmen and many other people. Hence Lochinvar doesn’t want to reveal his love and his intention at once. He understands he will. be attacked and killed. He wants to gain time till he has got the girl’ near himself and can give her his signal to escape.
Question 9.
What other lies does Lochinvar tell Ellen’s father?
Answer:
Lochinvar tells that his only purpose . in coming there was to drink one cup of wine, and dance one dance with her, for the sake of their old love together. He also says that there are many other, maidens in Scotland who are lovelier than Ellen and would gladly be his wife.