silver Walter de la mare questions and Answers
Answers
Explanation:
Vocabulary
- Moon walks – Moon moves/glides
- Silver shoon – Silver brightness
- Peer – Look through
- Silver fruits – Fruits that appear to be silvery in moonlightQuestions
How does the moon move?
The moon moves slowly and silently.
What does silver shoon mean?
Silver shoon is the silvery brightness of the moon. Moonlight sheds a silvery light.
What is the rhyme scheme of the stanza?
AABB
In the second line, the poet calls the moon ‘she.’ What is this poetic device called?
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Alliteration
Are the trees and fruits really silver in color? Why does the poet call them silver trees and silver fruits?
No, the tees and fruits are not silvery. Because of the effect of the moonlight, they appear silver in color.
Fill in the Blanks
The poem ‘Silver’ is about the (1)____ of the moon at night. It is night and the moon is (2)___ in the sky. It is shedding its silver (3)___ upon the earth. It is looking down through the (4)____. With its light thrown all over, the earth (5)___ silver in color. Trees and (6)___ appear to be silvery.
Light/lit
Fruits/fruit
Walking/walk
Appears/appear
Clouds/cloud
Effect/affect)
One by one, the casements catch
Her beams beneath the silvery thatch;
Couched in his kennel, like a log,
With paws of silver sleeps the dog.