The Brook Class 8th |The Brook Class 8 Q & A | Summary |

 The Brook |The Brook Class 8 Q & A |

     Thinking about the poem

1. Who is “I” referred to as in the poem?

Ans. ‘I’ in the poem is referred to the brook.

2. Trace the journey of the brook.

Ans. The brook starts its journey from the place of water birds, moving down the hills noisily, curving at many places, overcoming the obstacles, and finally reaching its destination – river

3. Explain the following lines:

“For men may come and men many go But I go on for ever.”

Ans. In these lines human life is compared and contrasted with the brook. Human beings are mortal because they’ve got a short span of life. They have to go through the cycle of arrival and departure. But the brook is immortal. It witnesses the coming and going of human beings because it itself is eternal.

4. Alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in verse such as “I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance”. Pick out more examples of alliteration from the poem.

Ans. Sudden sally, willow weed, foamy flake, skimming swallows, sandy shallow.

5. In the poem there is a comparison between the brook’s journey and human life. Explain.

Ans. Yes, the journey of the brook can be compared with the human life. The way the brook originates and then flows with the vigor over coming all the hurdles and taking along with it the blossoms, trout, gravel, etc can be compared with the vigour and enthusiasm of human beings when they are young and full of energy to ever come anything here obstacles, in order to reach their destination and in their journey they meet different people and continue to move ahead in their journey of life. Language Work

1. Tennyson makes use of choicest words to describe the movement of the brook down the hill. It reveals the poet’s power of making sound pictures or more appropriately what is called as the sound imagery. Imagery means the use of words or pictures in books, films, paintings, etc. to describe ideas or situations. Pick out the sound images used in the poem.

Ans. The sound images used in the poem are: bicker down; chatter over; murmur.

2. Find the visual images used in the poem.

Ans. The visual images used in the poem are: eddying bays; brimming river; brambly wilderness.