मराठी

(i) Something happened at Lyonnesse. It was (a) improbable. (b) impossible. (c) unforeseeable. (ii) Pick out two lines from stanza 2 to justify your answer.

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प्रश्न

(i) Something happened at Lyonnesse. It was

(a) improbable.

(b) impossible.

(c) unforeseeable.

(ii) Pick out two lines from stanza 2 to justify your answer.

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उत्तर

(i) Something happened at Lyonnesse. It was unforeseeable.

(ii) The two lines that justify the above answer are as follows:

‘No prophet durst declare;

Nor did the wisest wizard guess’

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पाठ 7.2: When I set out for Lyonnesse - Working with the Poem [पृष्ठ १०६]

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पाठ 7.2 When I set out for Lyonnesse
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