How does it ‘chatter’?
The noise made by the quick flow of the brook is what makes it ‘chatter’. While the river wanders in a wild and natural course, it makes a natural swirling, chattering noise.
Read the given lines and answer the questions: -
I chatter, chatter, as I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.
(a) Who does ‘I’ refer to in the given lines?
(b) How does it ‘chatter’?
(c) Why has the poet used the word ‘brimming’? What kind of a picture does it create?
(d) Explain the last two lines of the stanza.
Fans don’t talk, but it is possible to imagine that they do. What is it, then, that sounds like the fan’s chatter?
Complete the following sentences.
(i) The chatter is electrical because _____________________________
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(ii) It is mysterious because ___________________________________