Oxford Ch - 13, Lord Ullin's Daughter
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Question 1.
Scotland stretches away in a spectacular fusion of wooded glens, sweeping moors, rugged coasts, towering mountains, green valleys and deep blue lakes known as Lochs. The Scottish people have long been famous for their close-knit clans organised under chieftains who often led fierce warriors to savage feuds.
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Only for self-attempt.
Question 2.
Lord Ullin’s Daughter is one of the most popular romantic poems of Thomas Campbell. It describes how a Scottish Chieftain and his beloved flee her wrathful father, but their defiance leads to their deaths, in a surging, stormy sea.
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Only for self-attempt.
Question 3.
Your teacher will play a recording of the poem. Listen to it with your books closed and conjure up a scene of mystery, adventure and high drama that the poem portrays.
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A Classroom Activity.
Question 4.
Now, listen to the poem again. As you listen this time, read the poem aloud, alongwith the recording. Try to copy the rhythm of the recording.
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A Classroom Activity.
Question 5.
On the basis of your understanding of the poem, answer the following questions by ticking the correct choice.
(a) Lord Ullin’s daughter and her lover are trying to______
(i) escape the wrath of her father.
(ii) settle in a distant land.
(iii) challenge the storm in the lake.
(iv) trying to prove their love for each other.
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(i) escape the wrath of her father.
(b) The boatman agrees to ferry them across because _________
(i) he has fallen in love with Lord Ullin’s daughter.
(ii) he wants to avenge Lord Ullin.
(iii) he has lost his love.
(iv) he is sorry for the childlike innocence of the lady.
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(iv) he is sorry for the childlike innocence of the lady.
(c) The mood changes in the poem. It transforms from ________
(i) happiness to fear.
(ii)anxiety to grief.
(iii) fear to happiness.
(iv) love to pain.
Answer:
(ii)anxiety to grief.
(d) The shore of Lochgyle has been referred to as ‘fatal shore !’ The poetic device used here is_______
(i) metaphor.
(ii) simile.
(iii) transferred epithet.
(iv) onomatopoeia
Answer:
(i) metaphor.
Question 6.
In pairs copy and complete the summary of the poem with suitable words/ expressions.
A Scottish Chieftain and his beloved were (a) ______ from her wrathful father. As they reached the shores, the (b) _____ told a boatman to (c) ________ them across Lochgyle. He asked him to do it quickly because if (d) _______ found them, they would kill him. The boatman (e) _______ to take them not for the (f) ______ that the Chieftain offered but for his (g) ______. By this time, the storm had (h) ______ and a wild wind had started blowing. The sound of (i) ______ could be heard close at hand. The lady urged the batman (j) ______ as she did not want to face an angry father. Their boat left the (k) ______ and as it got caught in the stormy sea, Lord Ullin reached the deadly (l) _____ His anger changed to wailing when he saw his daughter (m) _______. He asked her to return to the shore. But it was (n) ______ as the stormy sea claimed his daughter and her lover.
Answer:
(a) fleeing/escaping
(b) Chieftain
(c) row
(d) Lord Ullin’s men
(e) promised
(f) silver pound
(g) winsome bride
(h) grown furious
(i) stamping
(j) to make haste
(k) stormy land
(l) shore
(m) caught in the storm
(n) in vain/too late
Question 7.
Why does Lord Ullin’s daughter defy her father and elope with her lover? (Stanza 1)
Answer:
Lord Ullifr’s beautiful daughter loves the Scottish chieftain passionately. Her father Lord Ullin is against their relationship and marriage. He is not favourably disposed to the Scottish chieftain. So Ullin’s daughter defies her father and decides to elope with her lover. She does so to escape the wrath of her angry father.
Question 8.
Give two characteristics of the boatman who ferries the couple across the sea.
Answer:
The greatest characteristic of the boatman is his sincerity and human sympathy. He decides to row the boat in the stormy and the furious sea not for the bright silver pound that the chieftain promised but for his “winsome bride”. The other characteristic that immediately strikes us is his courage. He is a man of words who doesn’t care for the stormy sea or the scowling sky. He risks his own life to help the lovers in need.
Question 9.
“Imagery” refers to something that can be perceived through more than one of the senses. It uses figurative language to help form mental pictures. Campbell uses vivid, diverse and powerful imagery to personify the menacing face of nature. Pick out expressions that convey the images of anger in the following stanzas: