Question

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :

'Never shall a young man,

Thrown into despair

By those great honey-coloured

Ramparts at your ear."

(a) Who is the speaker of these lines? Who is he speaking to ?

(b) What does the young man mean by 'honey-coloured ramparts' ?

(c) What does the word 'despair' mean ?

Answer 1

a) The speaker is a young man and he is speaking to a young woman.

b) By 'honey-coloured ramparts', the young man means the yellow hair of the young woman.

c) The word ‘despair’ means complete loss of hope.