Chapter 11 For Anne Gregory (poem) Thinking About the Poem (page 141) Question 1. What does the young man mean by “great honey-coloued /Ramparts at your ear?” Why does he say that young men are “thrown into despair” by them? Answer: The young man in the poem praises...
Chapter 10 The Tale of Custard the Dragon (Poem) Thinking about the poem (132) Question 1. Who are the characters in this poem? List them with their pet names. Answer: The characters in this poem are Belinda, a little girl, and her pets: a little black kitten, a...
Chapter 9 Fog (Poem) Thinking About the Poem(Page 115) Question 1. 1. What does Sandburg think the fog is like? 2. How does the fog come? 3. What does ‘it’ in the third line refer to? CBSE 2012 4. Does the poet actually say that the fog is like a cat? Find three...
Chapter 8 The Trees Thinking about the Poem (Page 100,101) Question 1. 1. Find, in the first stanza, three things that cannot happen in a treeless forest. 2. What picture do these words create in your mind: “….. sun bury its feet in shadow…..1′? What could the poet...
Chapter 7 Animals (poem) Thinking About the Poem(Page 84) Question 1. Notice the use of the word ‘turn’ in the first line, “I think I could turn and live with animals…”. What is the poet turning from? Answer: In this line here, the poet wants to turn from human...
