Question

I. Read the extract and answer the following question:

1. I feel I’ve lived a thousand lives (book back pg no.12 , question no:3 )

I’ll never prove as fact

Unless you too made note of same

And like to share abstract

a) Explain what the poet might mean by saying he has lived a thousand lives?

b) How, according to the poet, may we too live many lives?

c) What term does she give to the kind of memories that she has? Why do you think she

uses this term?

Extra questions

1. “I think I was a Viking’s mate

Who sailed Icelandic seas

So many places of intrigue

And untold mysteries”

a) Who is the ‘I’ referred to? What does the speaker describe in these lines?

b) Who is called as ‘Viking’? What is told about Viking in the extract?

c) What does the poet’s wish to become aViking’s mate?

II. Answer the following questions:

1. What wakes the poet from her sleep?

2. Do you think this poem is based on the real life experience of the poet? Why?

3. What is compared with magic and ghost? How?

4. What does the poet say about the gypsy’s life?

5. Justify the title “A ballad of mystic memories”? please give correct answer ​

Answer 1

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