NCERT solutions class 8th English (Honeydew Poem) Chapter – 7 When I Set Out For Lyonnesse Question & Answer

NCERT Solutions Class 8th English (Honeydew Poem) Chapter – 7 When I Set Out For Lyonnesse

NCERT Solutions Class 8th English (Honeydew) Chapter – 7 When I Set Out For Lyonnesse

Chapter – 7

When I Set Out For Lyonnesse 

Question & Answer

Question 1. In the first stanza, find words that show

(i) that it was very cold.
Answer – The word “rime’ shows that it was very cold.

(ii) that it was late evening.
Answer – The word ‘starlight’ shows that it was late evening.

(iii) that the traveller was alone.
Answer – The word ‘lonesomeness’ shows that the traveller was alone.

Question 2. (i) Something happened at Lyonnesse. It was

(a) improbable.
(b) impossible.
(c) unforeseeable

Answer – Unforeseeable.

(ii) Pick out two lines from stanza 2 to justify your answer.
Answer – The two lines are – “No prophet durst declare” “Nor did the wisest wizard guess”

Question 3. (i) Read the line (stanza 3) that implies the following.

“Everyone noticed something, and they made guesses, but didn’t speak a word’.

Answer – ‘All marked with mute surmise’

(ii) Now read the line that refers to what they noticed.
Answer – The line that refers to what they noticed is: ‘My radiance rare and fathomless’

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