Questions and Answers

In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem ‘A Psalm of Life’ time is personified in the line ‘Time is fleeting’. What’s the possible reason?

What does the speaker mean by ‘shadowy forms of people’ in Vikram Seth’s poem ‘A Doctor’s Journal Entry for August 6’? Why were they looking so? Explain briefly the effect of bombing on them.

When was Longfellow’s poem ‘A Psalm of Life’ first published? What is the subtitle of the poem? Why is this subtitle used?

What enduring belief of the poet/speaker is expressed in the first two stanzas of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem ‘A Psalm of Life’? In what way does the poet justify the theme of the poem?

Explain the line “the role assigned to me here where I dream and breathe” from I Believe. or,  How is “where we dream and breathe” so important in the last stanza of I Believe by Brucellish K Sangma?

Do you think the poet is happy with his lonely state in the woods in Robert Frost’s poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening? Give reasons for your answer.

What qualities of a sonnet does Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poem ‘If Thou Must Love Me’ have? Is it a true sonnet?

Who was Sir Ralph in Robert Southey’s poem The Inchcape Rock? What did he want? Describe how Sir Ralph the Rover destroyed the Inchcape bell.

“And now grown rich with plunder’d store” – Who has grown rich and how in the poem The Inchcape Rock by Robert Southey?

What happened to Sir Ralph at last in Robert Southey’s poem ‘The Inchcape Rock’? / How was the rover punished in the end?