Weavers, weaving at break of day, Why do you weave a garment so gay? Blue as the wing of a halcyon wild, We weave the robes of a new-born child.
1) Explain the line “Why do you weave a garment so gay”
2) What are the weavers doing at dawn?
3) Which stage of human life is mentioned in the above stanza?
4) Explain the similarity between the break of the day and the birth of a baby?
5) What is a simile? Identify the simile in the stanza.
Answers
1)Answer: “Why do you weave a garment so gay” this line explains:
Blue as the wing of a halcyon wild, We weave the robes of a newborn child. Like the plumes of a peacock, purple and green, We weave the marriage veils of a queen.
2)Answer: At dawn, the weavers are weaving a blue garment for a newborn child.
3)Answer: The poet has discussed two stages of life – childhood and adulthood.
4)Answer: The similarity between the morning time of day and the birth of a child is that each and every day is born and raised as a fresh new beginning/start. As the morning starts with a fresh sun which woke up, just like that a newborn child wakes up fresh.
5)Answer: Metaphors and similes both compare two things.
Simile: Compares two things by saying they are “like” each other; the subject IS LIKE the object. Similes remind us that a comparison is being made, which sometimes makes them easier to understand and follow.