Poet: Summer Sun by Robert Louis Stevenson
Read these lines and answer the questions that follow.
A.Yet he will find a chink or two
To slip his golden fingers through
i. Who is the chink?Where was he supposed to find the chink?
ii. What do you think the poet means by golden fingers?
iii.Why was he being kept out?
B. The dusty attic, spiders chad,
He, though the keyhole, marketh glad;
And through the broken edge of tiles,
Into the laddered hayloft smiles.
i. Who did the sun make happy? How did he do this?
ii.How did the sun enter the hayloft?
iii.What do these lines tell you about the sun?
Answers
Explanation:
Poet: Summer Sun by Robert Louis Stevenson
Read these lines and answer the questions that follow.
A.Yet he will find a chink or two
To slip his golden fingers through
i. Who is the chink?Where was he supposed to find the chink?
ii. What do you think the poet means by golden fingers?
iii.Why was he being kept out?
B. The dusty attic, spiders chad,
He, though the keyhole, marketh glad;
And through the broken edge of tiles,
Into the laddered hayloft smiles.
i. Who did the sun make happy? How did he do this?
ii.How did the sun enter the hayloft?
iii.What do these lines tell you about the sun?
The answers to the following questions are:
A
(i) Chink is referred to as a crack or a narrow opening through the curtains. He is supposed to find the chink in the blinds. Blinds are the thick curtains in the room.
(ii) The poet means the rays of the sun by " golden fingers". As the rays are golden yellow in color, thus the poet referred to them as golden.
(iii) The sun rays were being kept out because the rays were scorching. They were thicker than the rain it showers. Therefore, they were being kept out.
B
(i) The sun makes the spiders happy. When the sun's rays fall through the keyhole of the dusty attic on the spiders clad, the spiders become glad.
(ii) Hayloft is the upper floor of a farm building. The sun's rays fall on the broken edge of tiles and through its reflection enters the Hayloft.
(iii) These lines tell us how the sun's rays find a way to reach out to every corner. Some would not like the sun's rays but it makes the insects happy.
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