Question

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Read the following stanzas and answer the questions that follow:



Q1. The way a crow



Shook down on me



The dust of snow



From a hemlock tree

Questions :



(a) What did the crow do to the hemlock tree?



(b) What was there in the tree at that time?



(c) Where do you think was the poet then?



(d) What is the name of the poem?



(e) What is the name of the poet?



(f) Write the rhyming words.



Q2. Has given my heart



A change of mood



And saved some part

Of a day I had rued.

Questions :

(a) What had given the poet ‘a change of mood’?

b) What had the poet thought of that day?



(c) How was some part of the day saved for the poet?

(d) Name the poem

(e) Name the poet.



(f) What is the rhyme scheme of this stanza?



Q-3The way a crow

Shook down on me

The dust of snow

From a hemlock tree.

Questions:

To whom does the word ‘me’ refer?

a) What is the significance of the crow and the Hemlock tree?

b) What happened when the crow shook the tree?

Which poetic device is used in the second line of this stanza?​

Answer 1

Answer:

shook the snow particles on the tree which feel on poet

snow

in a park

robert frost.

the snow particles that fell on him

it will be ruined due to poets gloom

dust of snow

robert frost

abab

usually poets use beautiful birds and trees but here the poet has used crow which is a symbol of ill omen and hemlock tree which is a poisionous tree ,defines the poets moods .

the snow flakes gave a change of mood to the poet and saved some part of his day.

assonance (repetition of O in shOOk dOwn On me