Question

Write stanza wise summary of the poem 'The Brook'.​

Answer 1

Answer:

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. ... The brook goes on the stony path creating chattering sounds.

Answer 2

Stanza – 1

“I come from haunts………………………….. bicker down a valley”.

• The brook itself explains that it comes from the places where birds called coot (an aquatic bird) and hern (heron bird) often gather. Suddenly, the brook rushes forward with great enthusiasm. As the brook weaves through greenery that grows beside the stream bank, the sunlight glitters on the water. The brook then flows gently with a repetitive noise into a valley.

Stanza – 2

“By thirty hills……………………………….. half a hundred bridges”.

• Gaining momentum, the brook tumbles down many thirty hills and seeps through narrow crevices on some of the hillsides. Along the way, the brook passes twenty villages and a small town, and flows underneath fifty bridges.