Question

Explain the given lines in about 30-40 words- Curling, skating, and sliding go. To left, a gabled tavern ; a blaze: Peasants; a watching child, and lo,'

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Answer 1

Explanation:

Walter de la Mare (25th April, 1873 – 22nd June, 1956)

Jagg’d mountain peaks and skies ice–green

Wall in the wild, cold scene below.

Churches, farms, bare copse, the sea

In freezing quiet of winter show;

Where ink-black shapes on fields in flood

Curling, skating, and sliding go.

To left, a gabled tavern; a blaze;

Peasants; a watching child; and lo,

Muffled, mute–beneath naked trees

In sharp perspective set a–row–

Trudge huntsmen, sinister spears aslant,

Dogs snuffling behind them in the snow;

And arrowlike, lean, athwart the air

Swoops into space a crow.

But flame, nor ice, nor piercing rock,

Nor silence, as of a frozen sea,

Nor that slant inward infinite line

Of signboard, bird, and hill, and tree,

Give more than subtle hint of him

Who squandered here life’s mystery.

Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap by Pieter Brugel The Elder (1525 – 1569)