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Question
What are the sounds heard by the poet?
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Solution
Shaking of harness bells and the sound of the wind is heard by the poet.
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He gives his harness bell a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
How does the horse communicate with the poet?
Complete the table by identifying lines, against the poetic devices from the poem. One example is done for you.
| Poetic device | Lines from the poem |
| Alliteration | watch his woods |
| Personification | |
| Repetition | |
| Imagery |
What is a tree?
And out of its leprous hide Sprouting leaves.
What comes out of the leprous hide?
The root is to be pulled out
Out of the anchoring earth;
Why should the root be pulled out?
Complete the table by identifying lines, against the poetic devices from the poem.
| Poetic lines | Poetic Devices/Figures of Speech |
| It takes much time to kill a tree. | |
| The bleeding bark will heal. | |
| Out of the anchoring earth |
O’er the yellow pebbles dancing,
Through the flowers and foliage glancing.
How does the river flow?
O’er the yellow pebbles dancing,
Through the flowers and foliage glancing.
What is meant by ‘foliage’?
And the finest of conventions ever held beneath the sun
Are the little family gatherings when the busy day is done.
What does the poet mean by ‘finest conventions'?
There are some who seem to fancy that for gladness they must roam,
That for smiles that are the brightest they must wander far from home.
According to them, when do they get bright smiles?
