(Q) Write the summary of the poem “THE BROOK”------by------Alfred Lord Tennyson.
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The speaker of the poem, the brook itself, explains that it started out in a body of water where birds called coot and heron often gather. Suddenly, the brook rushes forward. The sunlight glitters on the water as the brook weaves through greenery that grows beside the stream bank. The brook then flows gently into a valley.
Gaining momentum, the brook tumbles down many hills and seeps through narrow crevices on some of the hillsides. Along the way, the brook passes several villages and a small town, and flows underneath lots of bridges.
Finally, the brook glides past a farm that belongs to a man named Philip. The brook is on its way to be absorbed by the river, which is already huge and overflowing. The brook claims that while humans live short, impermanent lives, the brook itself will always endure.
Picking its journey back up, the brook rushes over stone paths and streets, sounding like music as it flows over the rocks. The brook pools into bays filled with churning water and then tumbles over small stones that line the shore or are at the bottom of the bay.
The brook curves around the stream bank and passes many meadows and plots of farmland, both in use and left to rest, as it travels through the countryside. It also flows alongside land that seems to belong to fairies, its landscape dotted with green leafy plants and delicate blossoms.