Read the following summary of the poem ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ and do the activities : (5 marks)(The poem by Robert Frost is in your textbook and is not reproduced here. The summary below is original.)The speaker is travelling alone on…

Q.3 (A) Read the following summary of the poem ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ and do the activities : (5 marks)

(The poem by Robert Frost is in your textbook and is not reproduced here. The summary below is original.)

The speaker is travelling alone on horseback on the darkest evening of the year. He stops between a wood and a frozen lake to watch the woods fill up with falling snow. He thinks that the owner of the woods lives in the village and will not see him stopping there. His little horse finds it strange to stop where there is no farmhouse near, and it shakes its harness bells as if to ask whether there is some mistake. The only other sounds are the sweep of a gentle wind and the soft fall of snowflakes. The speaker finds the woods lovely and feels like staying, but he remembers that he has promises to keep and a long way to go before he can sleep.

One line from the poem : “The woods are lovely, dark and deep”

A1. Write whether the following sentences are ‘True’ or ‘False’ : (2) (i) The speaker stops near the woods on the darkest evening of the year. (ii) The owner of the woods watches the speaker. (iii) The horse shakes its harness bells. (iv) The speaker decides to spend the night in the woods.

A2. Complete the following web : (2) [Web diagram: centre box “What the speaker sees or hears near the woods”; four blank boxes joined to it.]

A3. Name the figure of speech in the line : (1) “The woods are lovely, dark and deep”