Question

stanza wise summary of the poem brook

Answer 1

STANZA – 1  The brook starts from those places which are often visited by the coot and hern (heron). The brook emerges suddenly in this hilly area. It moves through the ferns and sparkles when the sunshine reflects the crystal clear water. And when the brook moves creates a lot of noise. 


STANZA – 2 
This stanza is an account of the brook’s flowing through different areas. The poet has created wonderful imageries when we read the brook flowing by thirty hills, slipping between ridges (long narrow hills), twenty villages, a little town and fifty bridges. 


STANZA – 3
The poet here tells us about the merging point of the brook. The brook joins an overflowing river here Philips farm is symbolised as a land mark of the ending of the journey of the brook. Last two lines are the refrain bearing the main theme of the poem. The brook is ever flowing, eternal without ceasing whereas we, the men are ephemeral. We shall not live forever. We are subject to decay, decline and death.


STANZA – 4 
     The brook goes on the stony path creating chattering sounds. It makes sharp high pitched sound when the brook clashes on the side banks of the land. It makes bubbles when it falls from height in the spiral movement. When it moves on the pebbles it creates soft pleasing sound. 


STANZA – 5      The brook moves on taking many curves and creates rough and unpleasant sound on the banks of the brook. The brook moves through many field and uncultivated lands. The brook goes through the foreland i.e. the land just before the merging point. The poet describes the land to be fairy land as with flowers and beautiful plants like willow and mallow it looks so. 


STANZA – 6
The brook creates various sounds before merging with its destination .The last two lines are the examples of refrain which highlights the eternal state of the brook and its activity and the ephemeral state of we, the humans.

 STANZA-7
     The brook on its way had lots of ups and downs and in its winding movement it often falls from height and goes in deep water and comes out to continue to flow. The brook carries blossoms on its way. Along with the brook there go a lot of fishes like lusty trout and grayling. 


STANZA – 8   When the brook moves , the waves clash with each other and creates bubbles and those bubbles in group make pieces of foams.The brook moves through different curves and the clashes creates silvery water break .These foams and silvery water break can be visible on the surface of the water and at the base of the brook there are golden coloured stones .

STANZA-9
     The brook carries fishes, foams and flowers with it to join the brimming river. And then the refrain comes meaning the eternal state of the river to that of transient one of humans. 


STANZA – 10 
     The brook secretly moves though the grassy plots and lawns and moves swiftly by the bushy hazel trees. The brook shakes and sweet forget – me- not flowers which grow for happy lovers. 

STANZA – 11
     The brook moves along making different movements like slipping, sliding, moving through darkness and so on. And there we find swallow birds to skim on the surface of the water for food. The brook waves create a net like structure on which the sunshine sparkles and it seems to us as if the sun beams are dancing.


STANZA – 12
     At night under the moon and stars, the brook goes on moving creating murmuring sound through the natural land where thorny bushes grow. The brook often lingers because of the stones on the way. The brook water moves purposelessly around the plant named cresses. 
 STANZA – 13
     After facing the obstacles the brook again takes a curve and starts flowing to join the brimming river. Last two lines refer to the refrain meaning the eternal state of the brook and transient state of the humans. 

P.S- please refer the stanzas from your book

Answer 2

Answer:

STANZA – 1

I come from haunts of coot and hern

I make a sudden sally,

And sparkle out among the fern,

To bicker down a valley.

Ø The brook starts from those places which are often visited by the coot and hern (heron). The brook emerges suddenly in this hilly area. It moves through the ferns and sparkles when the sunshine reflects the crystal clear water. And when the brook moves creates a lot of noise.

Poetic devices used –

· ‘I” (Line-1) – The whole poem brook is personified

· ‘hern’ is an example of poetic license. The word ‘heron’ has been turned into ‘hern’ to match the rhyming word ‘hern’.

· ‘I` ................`(Line – 1)

‘I...............`(Line – 2) Anaphora

· “Sudden sally” (Alliteration)

· “Bicker” – (onomatopoeia)

STANZA – 2

By thirty hills I hurry down,

Or slip between the ridges,

By twenty thorps, a little town,

And half a hundred bridges.

This stanza is an account of the brook’s flowing through different areas. The poet has created wonderful imageries when we read the brook flowing by thirty hills, slipping between ridges (long narrow hills), twenty villages, a little town and fifty bridges.

Poetic Devises in use –

1) By thirty hills I hurry down (Inversion)

2) Twenty thorpes (Alliteration)

3) By .............................(Line – 1)

...................................

By (Line -3) – Repetition

STANZA – 3

Till last by Philip’s farm I flow

To join the brimming river,

For men may come and men may go,

But I go on for ever.

The poet here tells us about the merging point of the brook. The brook joins an overflowing river here Philips farm is symbolised as a land mark of the ending of the journey of the brook. Last two lines are the refrain bearing the main theme of the poem. The brook is ever flowing, eternal without ceasing whereas we, the men are ephemeral. We shall not live forever. We are subject to decay, decline and death.

Poetic – Devices in use

1. Till last by Philip’s farm I flow (inversion)

2. Men may (Alliteration)

3. Come ..............go (Line-3) (Antithesis)

STANZA – 4

I chatter over stony ways,

In little sharps and trebles,

I bubble into eddying bays,

I babble on the pebbles.

The brook goes on the stony path creating chattering sounds. It makes sharp high pitched sound when the brook clashes on the side banks of the land. It makes bubbles when it falls from height in the spiral movement. When it moves on the pebbles it creates soft pleasing sound.

Poetic Devices in use:

1. ‘Chatter`, ‘trebles`, ‘babble` - onomatopoeia.

2. Line – 3 and Line – 4 – Anaphora.

STANZA – 5

With many a curve my banks I fret

By many a field and fallow,

And many a fairy foreland set

With willow-weed and mallow.

The brook moves on taking many curves and creates rough and unpleasant sound on the banks of the brook. The brook moves through many field and uncultivated lands. The brook goes through the foreland i.e. the land just before the merging point. The poet describes the land to be fairy land as with flowers and beautiful plants like willow and mallow it looks so.

Poetic Devices in use:

1. “With many a curve my banks I fret” – Inversion.

2. “fairly foreland”,” with willow seed” – Alliteration.

STANZA – 6

I chatter, chatter, as I flow

To join the brimming river,

For men may come and men may go,

But I go on for ever.

The brook creates various sounds before merging with its destination .The last two lines are the examples of refrain which highlights the eternal state of the brook and its activity and the ephemeral state of we, the humans.

Poetic Device in use :

1. Chatter chatter- Repetition

2. Chatter – Onomatopoeia

3. Chatter chatter , men may –Alliteration

4. ……….come ………go- Antithesis

STANZA-7

I wind about, and in and out ,

With here a blossom sailing

And here and there a lusty trout

And here and there a grayling

The brook on its way had lots of ups and downs and in its winding movement it often