Question

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow :-
To Daffodils
Fair daffodils, we weep to see
You haste away so soon,
As yet the early-rising sun
Has not attained his noon.
Stay, stay
Until the hasting day
Has run
But to the evensong:
And, having prayed together, we
Will go with you along.
We have short time to stay, as you,
We have as short a spring;
As quick a growth to meet decay,
As you, or anything.
We die
As your hours do, and dry
Away
Like to the summer's rain:
Or as the pearls of morning's dew,
Ne'er to be found again.
- Robert Herrick
The expression "You haste away so soon"(line 2) means
(i) you go away hurriedly.
(1) you decay and die too soon.
(iii) you are in a hurry to catch the sun. (iv) you bloom too early.
In the second stanza, the poet wants the daffodils to
(i) stay with him.
(ii) go with him.
(ii) live a little longer.
(19) pray together.
"As your hours do" (line 16). The word "hours' here means
(1) summer rain
(11) youth
(i) life span
(iv) old age
Why does the poet say that we have short time to stay as vou
i) Daffodils should live a little longer. (it) Human beings have a short life.
in All life is short and transient. (A) Both Daffodils and human beings have short life span.
Vrom the options given below and write the synonym of the word 'decay
develop
(ii) improve
perish
(1) growth

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Answer 1

(i) you go away hurriedly.

(i) go with him.

(1) Summer rain

(A) Both Daffodils and human beings have short life span.

perish

• The expression "You haste away so soon" means "you go away hurriedly."
• In the second stanza, the poet wants the daffodils to "go with him."
• "As your hours do". The word "hours'' here means summer rain.
• The poet say that we have short time to stay as you because both Daffodils and human beings have short life span.
• synonym of the word 'decay' is persish.

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