B. Answer the questions with reference to context.
1. But to go to school in a summer morn, O it drives all joy away.
a. Who is the speaker in these lines?
b. What are the joys of a summer morn that the speaker had described?
c. Whose 'cruel eye' is being referred to later in the stanza? Why has such a phrase been used? 20
2. O father and mother if buds are nipped And blossoms blown away,
a. Whom does the poet refer to as 'buds' and 'blossoms'?
b. Name the literary device used in this stanza. What are the two things being compared?
c. Identify any two words that have a negative connotation in this stanza and write their meanings.
3. Or how shall we gather what griefs destroy Or bless the mellowing year, When the blasts of winter appear?
a. Who is being referred to as 'we' in the given lines? How would they bless the mellowing year?
b. Explain what the poet means by 'blasts of winter'.
c. What do summer and winter stand for in this stanza?
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love to rise in a summer morn,
When the birds sing on every tree;
The distant huntsman winds his horn,
And the skylark sings with me.
O! what sweet company. (Page 84)
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