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(i) Find, in the first stanza, three things that cannot happen in a treeless forest.

(ii) What picture do these words create in your mind: “... sun bury its feet in shadow...”? What could the poet mean by the sun’s ‘feet’?

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Solution

(i) The three things that cannot happen in a treeless forest are the sitting of a bird on trees, the hiding of insects and the sun burying its feet in the shadow of the forest.

(ii) The sun radiates heat and the given words create a picture of the hot, radiating sun cooling its feet in the cool shadow of the forest. The sun’s ‘feet’ refers to its rays that reach the earth.

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the forest that was empty all these days

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no insect hide

no sun bury its feet in shadow

the forest that was empty all these nights

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the forest that was empty all these days

where no bird could sit

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no sun bury its feet in shadow

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The trees inside are moving out into the forest,

the forest that was empty all these days

where no bird could sit

no insect hide

no sun bury its feet in shadow

the forest that was empty all these nights

will be full of trees by morning.

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The trees inside are moving out into the forest,

the forest that was empty all these days

where no bird could sit

no insect hide

no sun bury its feet in shadow

the forest that was empty all these nights

will be full of trees by morning.
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(a) How does the brook ‘sparkle’?

(b) ‘Bicker’ means ‘to quarrel’. Why does the poet use this word here?

(d) Where does it finally meet the river?

(e) Why has the word ‘chatter’ been repeated in the poem?

(f) ‘With many a curve my banks I fret’ − What does the poet mean by this statement?

(g) ‘I wind about, and in and out’. What kind of a picture does this line create in your mind?

(h) Name the different things that can be found floating in the brook.

(i) What does the poet want to convey by using the words ‘steal’ and ‘slide’?

(j) The poem has many examples of alliteration. List five examples.

(k) ‘I make the netted sunbeam dance.’ What does ‘the netted sunbeam’ mean? How does it dance?

(l) What is the ‘refrain’ in the poem? What effect does it create?

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(i) Find, in the first stanza, three things that cannot happen in a treeless forest. (ii) What picture do these words create in your mind: “... sun bury its feet in shadow...”? What could the poet mean by the sun’s ‘feet’?

(i) Find, in the first stanza, three things that cannot happen in a treeless forest.

(ii) What picture do these words create in your mind: “... sun bury its feet in shadow...”? What could the poet mean by the sun’s ‘feet’?