Who are the people in the poem “Way Through The Woods”who shut the road 70 years ago?
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Explanation:
The Way Through the Woods’ by Kipling is a two stanza poem
Answer:
Questions – Answers:
1. Who can see where the old road ran?
Ans: The keeper of the woods can see where the old road ran.
2. Why is the otter not afraid of men?
Ans: The otter is not afraid of men because very few people enter the woods.
3. What are the various creatures that can be seen and heard in these woods?
Ans: Fish, otter, horse, men are the various creatures that can be seen and heard in these woods.
Explain with reference to the context:
1. ‘There was once a road through the woods’.
a) What happened to the road that once ran through the woods?
Ans: The road was closed by men seventy years ago.
b) How long ago did it exist?
Ans: It existed seventy years ago.
c) How has it disappeared?
Ans: Many bushes and plant has grown on the road as it was not used. Thus the road has disappeared in the shrubs.
2. It is under the coppice and health
And the thin anemones.
a) What is under the coppice and health?
Ans: The road is under the coppice and health.
b) Why is it hidden there?
Ans: Many bushes and plant has grown on the road as it was not used. That is why it seems that the road is hidden there.
3. You will hear the beat of horse’s feet,
And the swish of a skirt in the dew.
a) Which is the horse that is being referred here?
Ans: The horse once upon a time on which people used to roam in the woods.
b) How and when it is present in the forest?
Ans: It is not physically present in the forest. That is one of the old memories of the poet.
c) Does its presence appear natural to you?
Ans: No, the presence of the horse doesn’t appear natural to me because it is not physically present there.
4. Which lines tell you that the woods are full of life?
Ans: Following lines tell us that the woods are full of life:
- That, where the ring-dove broods,
- And the badges roll at ease,
- Where the otter whistles his mate
- On the trout-ringed pools
- You will hear the beat of the horse’s feet
- And the swish of the skirt in the dew
5. What can be heard on late summer evening? What do you think causes these sounds?
Ans: The whistles of the otter can be heard on late summer evening. The otter can be seen calling his mate. Also, the horse’s feet tapping, the swish of the skirt, can be heard. Actually there is no presence of such things, it’s just poet’s imagination.
6. ‘As though they perfectly knew’ – Who do you think ‘they’ are? Why do you think so?
Ans: The word ‘they’ refer to the people who used to visit the road once upon a time. I think so because only these people can be perfectly walk on the road because they were habitual to the road.
7. Which words tell you –
a) That a woman is walking through the woods?
Ans: the swish of the skirt
b) What lives in the pool?
Ans: trout-ringed pools
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