JKBOSE Class 9 English Tulip Poetry Chapter 8 To the Cuckoo Solution
JKBOSE (Jammu Kashmir State Board Of School Education) Class 9 English Solution Chapter 8 To the Cuckoo all Exercise Question Answers. Students of JK Board Grade 9 Standard can download all Answer.
TO THE CUCKOO
Understanding the Poem
1.) How does the cuckoo’s voice charm the poet?
Answer: The cuckoo’s voice rejoices the poet. He enjoys its voice as it takes it back to his childhood.
2.) Why does the poet call cuckoo ‘wandering voice’ ‘darling of the spring’?
Answer: The poet calls cuckoo ‘wandering voice’ because he had not seen the bird but only heard its voice through trees, grass and woods. He calls the cuckoo ‘darling of the spring’ because its voice can be heard only in the season of the spring.
3.) Which childhood experiences does the poet describe in stanzas five and six?
Answer: In the stanzas five and six, the poet shares his school days experience. He used to listen to the voice which he looked ways in bush, tree and the sky. He loved its voice so much that he wished to travel and see.
4.) What does ‘golden time’ refer to?
Answer: “Golden time’ refers to the time of the poet’s school time when he used to enjoy the voice of the cuckoo.
Learning about the literary devices
1.) Who is personified in the poem?
Answer: The cuckoo and its voice is personified in the poem.
2.) What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
Answer: The rhyme scheme of the poem is ‘abab.’
3.) What imagery does Wordsworth use to portray the Beauty of nature in the poem?
Answer: Just like other poems of Wordsworth, this poem too has variety of nature’s beauty. The imagery of the cuckoo, its voice, grass, hills, bushes, trees, skyetc.are the things of that show the beauty of the nature.
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