NCERT Class 9 Tenth Chapter Poem Solution A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
NCERT Class 9 Tenth Chapter Poem Solution A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal Exercise Question and Answers by Experts.
Thinking about the Poem
1.) “A slumber did my spirit seal,” says the poet. That is, a deep sleep ‘closed off’ his soul (or mind). How does the poet react to his loved one’s death? Does he feel bitter grief? Or does he feel a great peace?
Answer:
The poet was in bitter grief after the death of his loved one. He had taken the life so much granted and he could not realise the fact that one day death might separated from his beloved permanently.
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2.) The passing of time will no longer affect her, says the poet. Which lines of the poem say this?
Answer:
“She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years” – said that the passing time will no longer affect her.
3.) How does the poet imagine her to be, after death? Does he think of her as a person living in a very happy state (a ‘heaven’)? Or does he see her now as a part of nature? In which lines of the poem do you find your answer?
Answer:
The poet imagined her as a part of nature after death. That is why the poet said she has become motionless, forceless. She could neither hear nor see. Moreover she become the part of the daily rotation of the earth like other things of nature, ex- trees, stones, rocks etc.
I find my answer in the last two lines of the poem –
“Rolled round in earth’s diurnal course
with rocks and stones and trees.
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