break!break!break! poem answer the question
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(a) What is the situation of the poet?
(b) What does the poet ask the sea?
(c) What are the fisherman's son and daughter doing on the shore?
(d) What does ‘Singing by the sailor and playing by children’ indicate?
(e) What is the meaning of the line ‘the sound of a voice that is still’?
(f) What is the moral of the poem?
(g)What does the word ‘impressive’ dignify? (Lines 7-10)
(h) Write the meaning of the word ‘tender’(lines 1-4)
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(a) The poet is sad/unhappy/dolorous/morose/lamenting over the death of his friend Arthur Hallam.
(b) The poet asks the sea to break the cold grey stones.
(c) The fisherman's son and daughter are playing wholeheartedly on the seashore
(d) The present line signifies that no one bothers about the poet's grief.
(e) It means the sound of his friend who is no more.
(f) The moral of the poem is that life goes on and on despite human suffering and tragedies.
(g) ‘Impressive’ means stately.
(h) ‘Tender’ means delicate.
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