The document provides an excerpt from the poem "Brook" and questions about it. The excerpt describes the brook winding through the landscape, carrying blossoms, fish and other things. It moves forget-me-nots grown for lovers and causes foamy flakes when flowing over golden gravel. The questions ask about specific lines and images in the excerpt, such as what occurs over the golden gravel and what quality is imagined in the brook carrying many things. They also ask about the rhyme scheme and to identify poetic devices used.

1. Assignment no -2
Topic – poem “Brook”
Readthe followingextractsandanswerthe questionsthatfollow:
I wind about, and in and out
With here a blossom sailing,
And here and there, a busty trout,
And here and there a grayling.
a) Explain "I wind about and in and out".
b) Name the different things that are carried by the brook?
c) Where does the brook carry all, these things?
And here and there a foamy flake,
Upon me, as I travel,
With many a silvery water break,
Above the golden gravel.
a) What occurs when the brook flows over "the golden gravel"
b) What unique quality of the brook can be imagined in it carrying so many things to the
brimming river?
I steal by lawns and grassy plots,
I slide by hazel covers
I move the sweet forget-me-nots,
That grow for happy lovers.
a) What does the poet want to convey by using the words "steal" and "slide"?
b) Identify the rhyme scheme in the above stanza.
8-
S.NO Match the
definition of
poetic devices
with their
examples from
the text as well as
beyond the text.
Definition Examples from
the text
Identify the figure
of Speech

2. 1 Personification Repetition of initial
consonant sounds
sudden sally/
Philip's
farm/ fairy
foreland/
willow-weed/
skimming
swallows
dressy daffodils
rabbits running
over roses
2 Onomatopoeia
A stanza, line, part
of a line, or phrase,
generally pertinent
to the central topic,
which is repeated
verbatim, usually at
regular intervals
throughout a poem
I make the
netted
sunbeam dance
against my
sandy
shallows.
sizzling
sausages
"clickety-clack"
train
Buzzing bees
3
Alliteration Using words that
imitate the sound
they denote
For men may
come
and men may
go,
But I go on for
ever
Wind yells while
blowing"
"Fear knocked
on the door.
Faith answered
There was no
one there."
4
Imagery Investing
abstractions or
inanimate objects
with human qualities
or abilities
I come from
haunts
of coot and
hern…../
I chatter, chatter,
as
I flow
The crimson
liquid spilled
from the neck of
the white dove
5
Refrain Used to evoke
mental images, not
only of the visual
sense, but of
sensation and
emotion as well.
chatter/ babble/
bicker
We bear her
along like a pearl
on a string
9- write down the theme of the poem.
10- Howis the journeyof humanlife differentfromthe journeyof the brook?
11- The brookappearsto be symbol forlife.Quote examplesof parallelismbetweenlife andthe brook.
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