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प्रश्न
Answer the following by choosing the right option from given below:
The Wedding-Guest beat his breast because…………
विकल्प
he could hear the sound of the bassoon
he was forced to listen to the Mariner's tale when he wanted to attend the
wedding.the sound of the bassoon meant that the bride had arrived and the wedding ceremony was about to begin and he could not attend it.
the sound of the bassoon announced the arrival of the bride and the start of
the wedding ceremony.
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उत्तर
the sound of the bassoon meant that the bride had arrived and the wedding ceremony was about to begin and he could not attend it
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संबंधित प्रश्न
What was the crime committed by the mariner?
Why does the ancient Mariner compel the wedding guest to listen to his story?
Why did the wedding guest beat his breast ?
Respect for all forms of life is an essential value. Unmindful destruction of nature and its creatures deserves just punishment. Write in 80−100 words this essential value as brought out in the poem, 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'.
How were the mariners saved from the land of ice and snow?
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 | why |
| thy | entered |
| wherefore | stopped |
| 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 |
| en | looking |
| swound | your |
| hollo | said |
| plague | dropped |
| look'st | spoke |
Using the words given above rewrite PART I 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?"
Answer the following by choosing the right option from given below:
'It perched for vespers nine' means………
Answer the following by choosing the right option from given below:
'God save thee, ancient Mariner, /From the fiends that plague thee thus!- Why look'st thou so?' means……….
Answer the following question briefly.
Describe the ancient mariner.
Answer the following question briefly.
How did the sailors reach the land of mist and snow?
Answer the following question briefly.
What was the terrible deed done by the Mariner? Why do you think he did it ?
Answer the following question briefly:
In which direction did the ship start moving? How can you say?
Answer the following question briefly:
Why does the mariner say that 'no sweet bird did follow'?
Answer the following question briefly:
What is the irony in the ninth stanza? Explain it in your own words.
Answer the following question briefly:
Describe the condition of the mariners as expressed in the thirteenth stanza.
Answer the following question briefly:
Why did the mariners hang the albatross around the neck of the Ancient Mariner?
