Explain these lines
‘When the night air cools on the trout – ringed pools,
Where the otter whistles his mate.’
Answers
Answer:
[Title] Brookland is a village in Kent in the middle of Romney Marsh. The singer has once seen a fairy maid and fallen in love with her and cannot think of anyone else although he knows he can never marry her.
[Chorus line 2] Where the liddle green lanterns shine In the Puck stories, liddle (little) green lights are a sign of the fairies: see "Dymchurch Flit" (Puck of Pooks Hill) p. 266:
“The Pharisees favoured the Marsh above the rest of Old England. They’d flash their liddle green lights along the diks”
['diks' were ditches]
[Verse 2 line 2] duntin’ dunt: knock with a dull sound [Oxford English Dictionary].
[Verse 4 line 3] Old Goodman Kipling asks in a footnote whether this is Earl Godwin of the Goodwin Sands. The Sands, a dangerous line of shoals off the Kentish coasts are traditionally the remnants of an island property of Godwin, the eleventh-century Earl of Wessex, and one of the most powerful men in the realm.
[Verse 6 line 1] Fairfield a village on Romney Marsh very close to Brookland.
waterbound the middle of Romney Marsh is liable to be flooded all winter
[Verse 6 line 4] my bells in this context, wedding bells
Answer:
WHEN THE NIGHT AIR COOLS;MEANS
WHEN THE NIGHT COOLS ON THE TROUT EVERYONE LOVES IT AND EVERYONE LIKES TO TROUT IN RINGED POOLS(ROLLING IN BLANKETS)
WHEN THE OTTER WHISTLES HIS MATE;
WHEN THE OTTER WHISTLES HIS MATE
Explanation:
MARK AS BRAINLIST