Hi Everyone!! This article will share Song Poem Questions & Answers.
This poem is written by Amy Lowell. In my previous posts, I have shared the questions and answers of David Visits His Aunt and The Lake Isle of Innisfree so, you can check these posts as well.
Song Poem Questions & Answers
Word Galaxy
- Upspringing – springing up
- Chaliced flower – flower in the shape of a chalice (a decorative cup)
- Torrents – strong streams of water moving very fast
- Splintering – breaking into small fragments
- Lingeringly – at a slow pace
- Coral caves – cave-like structures just above or just below the surface of the sea formed from coral, a hard rock-like substance
Question 1: Read the lines and answer the questions:
Holding up
A scent-brimmed cup,
Full of summer’s fragrance to the summer sun
(a) Who is holding a ‘scent-brimmed cup’?
Answer: The flower is holding up a ‘scent brimmed cup’.
(b) What does the poet mean by the phrase ‘scent-brimmed cup’?
Answer: The phrase ‘scent brimmed cup’ means a cup filled to the brim with fragrance. It is a metaphor for the flower filled with fragrance of the summer.
Question 2: Read the lines and answer the questions:
Blossoms hold
Mines of gold
Deep within the farthest heart of each chailced flower
(a) What does ‘mines of gold’ refer to?
Answer: In the given line, the phrase ‘mines of gold’ refers to the nectar that is present deep within each flower.
(b) What is each of the flowers being compared to?
Answer: Each of the flowers is being compared to a gold mine.
Question 3: What wish does the poet express in the first stanza?
Answer: In the first stanza, the poet wishes to express her joy at the fragrance of summer. She wishes that she were a flower happily playing in the sun with a lovely breeze blowing around her. She would take a dip in nature and rise with the breeze, holding a cup filled to the brim with the warm fragrance of the summer and hold it up to the sun.
Question 4: What does the poet wish to do by becoming a cloud?
Answer: By becoming a cloud, the poet wishes to blow through the blue sky, cover the mountains and rush loudly through deep valleys where powerful waterfalls and streams plunge with thundering sound and create a blue mist.
Question 5: How does the poet describe the movement of waves on the sand?
Answer: According to the poet, waves break into fragments when they fall on the sand but while retreating, they seem to linger on the land.
Question 6: According to the poet, how are waves different from flowers, insects and clouds?
Answer: According to the poet, waves are different from flowers, insects and clouds because they last forever. Unlike the flowers that die quickly, insects that live for only a day and clouds that dissolve in rain, waves play on the sea and land forever.
Question 7: Give examples of alliteration from the poem.
Answer: Examples of alliteration from the poem are:
‘Summer sun’
‘be a butterfly’
‘winking with its painted wings’
‘blowing through the blue’
‘splintering on the sand’
‘leaving lingeringly the land.’
So, these were the Questions & Answers.