Here are some of the archaic words used in the poem; can you match them with the words used in Modern English Language that mean the same? The first one has been done for you as an example:

Stoppeth-

Stopped

Thy

entered

Wherefore

why

Stopp’st

you

Thou

lunatic

May’st

at once

Quoth

fainting fit

Loon

has

Eftsoons

can’t you

Dropt

stopping

Hath

church

Spake

enemy

Kirk

yes

Paced

see

Foe

call

Aye

trouble

Ken

looking

Swound

your

Hollo

said

Plague

dropped

Look’st

spoke

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Solution

Stoppeth-

Stopped

Thy

your

Wherefore

why

Stopp’st

stopping

Thou

you

May’st

can’t you

Quoth

said

Loon

lunatic

Eftsoons

at once

Dropt

dropped

Hath

has

Spake

spoke

Kirk

church

Paced

entered

Foe

enemy

Aye

yes

Ken

see

Swound

fainting fit

Hollo

call

Plague

trouble

Look’st

looking

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Using the words given above rewrite Part1 of the poem in your own words. The first stanza has been done as an example:

It is an ancient Mariner,

And he stoppeth one of three.

‘By thy long grey beard and glittering eye,

Now wherefore stopp’st thou me?

An old sailor stopped one of the three people passing by, who asked: “Old man, with your long grey beard and glittering eye, why are you stopping me?”

Work in pairs and find examples of alliteration from the poem

Note: one of the devices used by poets is alliteration − the repetition of speech sounds in a sequence of nearby words e.g. in W.H.Auden’s poem “O’ Where Are You Going?” the last stanza makes prominent use of this device:

“Out of this house” − said rider to reader,

“Yours never will” − said farer to fearer,

“They’re looking for you” − said hearer to horror,

As he left them there, as he left them there.

(e.g − rider − reader, farer − fearer, hearer − horror)

1. Look at the words the poet uses to describe what he sees and hears at Innisfree

(i) Bee-loud glade

(ii) Evenings full of the linnet’s wings

(iii) Lake water lapping with low sounds

What pictures do these words create in your mind?

2. Look at these words:

...peace comes dropping slow

Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings

What do these words mean to you? What do you think “comes dropping slow...from the veils of the morning”? What does “to where the cricket sings” mean?

Q. 1. Stop, Look and Listen
Stop, Look and Listen
Before you cross the street.
Use your eyes, use your ears
And then use your feet.
Talk about how you would cross the road.

2. Can you make the sounds which you hear when you walk on the road? Talk about them.

3. Use can and cannot alternatively in the following sentences:
I ______________ hear the sound of cars.
I ______________ hear the train whistle.
I ______________ hear the wind blow.
I ______________ hear the clock.
I ______________ hear the sound of feet.
I ______________ hear the sound of moving of chairs.
I ______________ hear the dogs barking.

Choose extracts from the story that illustrate the character of the people listed in the table given below. There are some words given to help you. You may add words of your own. One has been done as an example:

vain

jealous

competitive

shrewd

manipulative

stingy

materialistic

spiteful

Character	Extract from the story	What this tells us about the character
Mrs. Packletide	(i) The compelling motive for her sudden deviation towards the footsteps of Nimrod was the fact that Loona Bimberton had recently been carried eleven miles in an aeroplane by an Algerian aviator, and talked of nothing else; only a personally procured tiger-skin and a heavy harvest of Press photographs could successfully counter that sort of thing	Competitive
	(ii) Mrs. Packletide had offered a thousand rupees for the opportunity of shooting a tiger without over-much risk or exertion,	_____________
	(iii) Mrs. Packletide faced the cameras with a light heart, and her pictured fame reached from the pages of the Texas Weekly Snapshot to the illustrated Monday upplement of the Novoe Vremya.	_____________
Louisa Mebbin	(i) "If it's an old tiger I think you ought to get it cheaper. A thousand rupees is a lot of money."	_____________
	(ii) Louisa Mebbin adopted a protective elder-sister attitude towards money in general, irrespective of nationality or denomination	_____________
	(iii) "How amused everyone would be if they knew what really happened," said Louisa Mebbin a few days after the ball.	_____________
	(iv) Louisa Mebbin's pretty week-end cottage, christened by her "Les Fauves," and gay in summer-time with its garden borders of tiger-lilies, is the wonder and admiration of her friends	_____________
Loona Bimberton	(i) As for Loona Bimberton, she refused to look at an illustrated paper for weeks, and her letter of thanks for the gift of a tiger-claw brooch was a model of repressed emotions	_____________
	(ii) there are limits beyond which repressed emotions become dangerous.	_______________

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Stoppeth-	Stopped
Thy	entered
Wherefore	why
Stopp’st	you
Thou	lunatic
May’st	at once
Quoth	fainting fit
Loon	has
Eftsoons	can’t you
Dropt	stopping
Hath	church
Spake	enemy
Kirk	yes
Paced	see
Foe	call
Aye	trouble
Ken	looking
Swound	your
Hollo	said
Plague	dropped
Look’st	spoke

Stoppeth- Stopped Thy your Wherefore why Stopp’st stopping Thou you May’st can’t you Quoth said Loon lunatic Eftsoons at once Dropt dropped Hath has Spake spoke Kirk church Paced entered Foe enemy Aye yes Ken see Swound fainting fit Hollo call Plague trouble Look’st looking