Question

Rise, brothers, rise; the wakening skies pray to the morning light, The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn like a child that has cried all night. Come, let us gather our nets from the shore and set our catamarans free, To capture the leaping wealth of the tide, for we are the kings of the sea! No longer delay, let us hasten away in the track of the sea gull’s call, The sea is our mother, the cloud is our brother, the waves are our comrades all. What though we toss at the fall of the sun where the hand of the sea-god drives? He who holds the storm by the hair, will hide in his breast our lives. Sweet is the shade of the cocoanut glade, and the scent of the mango grove, And sweet are the sands at the full o’ the moon with the sound of the voices we love; But sweeter, O brothers, the kiss of the spray and the dance of the wild foam’s glee; Row, brothers, row to the edge of the verge, where the low sky mates with the sea. Sarojini Naidu Answer these questions with reference to the context. 1. He who holds the storm by the hair, will hide in his breast our lives. a. Who is ‘he’? b. Whose lives does he hold? c. What does the speaker mean by this line? 2. But sweeter, O brothers, the kiss of the spray and the dance of the wild foam’s glee. a. What does the speaker earlier refer to as sweet? b. What is the contrast the speaker draws between this line and the one before it? c. What is the image being described here? pls answer it

Answer 1

Answer:

1.a he is God

b. he holds the lives of every living being

Answer 2

Answer:

1) a. 'The Sea God' is referred as 'he'.

b. He hold the lives of fishermen.

c. The speaker says that,if the storm comes,the lives of the fishermen will be hold by the sea god in gis breadt for the rest of their lives.

2) a. The speaker earlier says that,the home is sweet.

b. The poet contrast by saying that, the home the home is sweet!but,not as sweet as the adventures the home is sweet!but,not as sweet as the adventures on the sea. Thus, the way it is contrasting.

c. The image being described here is the fondness of fishermen for the sea.The adventurous life in the sea between the storms is more sweet and the fishmen like it.

Explanation:

• The poem name is 'Coromandel Fishers'.
• The poem is about the life of fishermen who lives in the bank of the sea.
• The fishermen love the sea more than anything.
• They love their home,but not as much as that of the adventures in the sea.

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