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.

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Solution

(a) ‘I’ refers to the brook.

(b) The noise made by the quick flow of the brook is what makes it ‘chatter’.

(c) The poet has used ‘brimming’ to indicate the amount of water in the river.

It creates a picture of abundance.

(d) In these lines, the immortality of the brook is described. Men come and go and the brook has seen many of them, but the brook keeps flowing forever.

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