Lines Written in Early Spring എന്ന പാഠത്തിലെ കൂടുതല്‍ ചോദ്യങ്ങളും ഉത്തരങ്ങളും

 1.  Read the following lines from ‘Lines Written in Early Spring’ and write a note of appreciation focusing on the theme, imagery, and other poetic devices.                                    
    The budding twigs spread out their fan,
    To catch the breezy air;
    And I must think, do all I can,
    That there was pleasure there.

    If this belief from heaven be sent,
    If such be Nature’s holy plan,
    Have I not reason to lament
    What man has made of man?
Answers:     
    In the poem ‘Lines Written in Early Spring’ Wordsworth personifies nature, giving her the ability to make decisions, to link herself with the human soul and to experience pleasure. Nature is presented as the doer of the right things.
    This poem has a simple form. It is composed of six  stanzas, each consisting of four lines. The poet has used imagery and other poetic devices to visualise the ideas of the poem. ‘The budding of twigs’ and ‘To catch the breezy air’ are examples of beautiful imagery. He has used personification cleverly. eg: ‘belief be sent from heaven’. Alliteration is another device he used in the poem.
eg: 'Through primrose tufts, in that green bower'. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ab ab.

2.    Read the following lines from the poem ‘Lines Written in Early Spring’ and answer the questions that follow. Each question carries one score.
a.    What does the poet mean by the expression ‘a thousand blended notes’?
b.    Why did the pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the poet’s mind?
c.    Pick out an example of an auditory image from the given lines.
d.    Identify the lines that tell us Nature is linked to the soul of human beings.
Answers: 
a.     The expression ‘a thousand blended notes’ stands for the chirping of the different kinds of birds.
b.    Man’s cruelty to nature and to his fellow beings made the poet sad.
c.    ‘A thousand blended notes’.
d.    ‘The human soul that through me ran
    And much it grieved my heart to think’
3.     Read the lines from ‘Lines Written in Early Spring’ and answer any THREE questions that follow.    
    I heard a thousand blended notes,
    While in a grove I sate reclined,
    In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
    Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
    To her fair works did Nature link
    The human soul that through me ran;
    And much it grieved my heart to think
    What man has made of man.
a)    How does the poet describe his ‘mood’ and ‘thoughts’?
b)    Pick out instances of a visual image and an auditory image.
c)    Why did the poet grieve?
d)    ‘To her fair works did Nature link...’ What is personified here?
e)    What does Nature link the human soul with?
Answers:  
a) The poet describe his mood as sweet and thoughts  as pleasant.
b)    Visual image    :    In a grove
    Auditory image    :    I heard a thousand blended notes
c)    The poet grieved white thinking what man had made of man.
d)    Nature is personified here.
e)    Nature is personified
f)    Nature links the human soul with her fair works