Read the following poem carefully:
I caught a tremendous fish
and held him beside the boat
half out of water, with my hook
fast in a corner of his mouth.
He didn’t fight,
He hadn’t fought at all.
He hung a grunting weight,
battered and vulnerable and homely.
Here and there
his brown skin hung in strips
like ancient wallpaper,
and its pattern of darker brown
was like wallpaper,
Shapes like full-blown roses
stained and lost through age.
-Wordsworth
A. On the basis of reading the above poem answer the following questions:
1. What did the poet catch?
2. Who is ‘I’ in the poem?
3. What is the skin of the fish is compared to?
4. What is the colour of its skin?
5. Name the poet of this poem.
6. Give a simile from the poem.
Answers
Answer:
Middlebury is one of the country's top liberal arts colleges. It offers its students a broad curriculum embracing the arts, humanities, literature, foreign languages, social sciences, and natural sciences. Middlebury is an institution with a long-standing international focus, a place where education reflects a sense of looking outward, and a realization that the traditional insularity of the United States is something of the past. We seek to bring to Middlebury those who wish not only to learn about themselves and their own traditions, but also to see beyond the bounds of class, culture, region, or nation. Indeed, the central purpose of a Middlebury education is precisely to transcend oneself and one's own concerns. This transcendence may come for some through the study of other cultures; for some through the study of the environment; for others it will come through inquiry into such fields as physics or philosophy, mathematics or music.
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