Question

In the poem “Way Through the Woods” the poet has used sound as an important element to paint a
natural picture of woods. What kind of sounds has the poet mentioned to do so? What do you think
causes these sounds?(60 Words)

Answer 1

Answer:

The second stanza is all about what you would see and hear if you entered the woods. He says that you can see pools inhabited by trouts and hear whistles of the otters and a lively wild world unaware and uncaring of the humans because there aren’t any visiting. But then the poem takes a supernatural turn.

Kipling says that if you listen carefully, you can hear the thumps of horse’s feet on the ground and the swishes of the skirts sundering the mist-laden air. The idea suggests that there lives someone who rides a horse and knows this misty woods inch by inch. It is as if they know where the road once was, but there is no road today, yet they know it very well.