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SAINI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL HOWRAH

CBSE AFFILIATED SCHOOL

CLASS - 8 SUBJECT - ENGLISH A DAY DATE – 21.04.2023

1. a) The phrase ‘aa ribbon at a time


time’ means that the Sun rose slowly and its rays looked like bands or
o ribbons
appearing one by one in the sky.
b) The word ‘swam’ here suggests that the steeples were covered or dunked in sunlight.
c) The news referred to is that the Sun has risen.
d) The phrase ‘like squirrels ran’ suggests
suggest that the news spread rapidly.

2. a) It is early morning.
b) The bonnets could be the darkness that covered the hills till the Sun rose and spread its lights over
them.
c) It is a species of north American songbird.
d) The bobolinks began to sing as soon as the sun rose.
rose

3. a) ‘I’ refers to the protagonist.


protagonist
b) The word ‘then’ refers to early morning.
mornin

c) The hills untying their bonnets and the bobolinks singing made the speaker think it must be
because of the Sun, indicating the arrival of morning.

d) The speaker spoke softly to herself because maybe she was alone and there was no one listening
since it was early morning.

B.

1) The speaker wants to tell us what happens when the Sun rises and what happens when it sets.

2) When the he Sun rises, the hills seem to remove their bonnets and the bobolinks start to sing. The
rays fall in beams and light up the place. Everyone talks about the sunrise.

3) When the Sun sets, the children, who were out at play, go over the hill and seem to disappear as
a
they go home.

4) The speaker does not how the Sun sets. He/she doesn’t have sufficient knowledge to explain it.

5) The girls and boys keep climbing the stile till they reach the other side.

6) A dominie or a clergyman in grey guides the children.


7) No. The poet describes explores the beauty of nature from the phenomena of sunrise and sunset
on a literal level while juxtaposing life and death. Another theme is spirituality with references to the
“Dominie in gray” and “flock”, Dickinson reveals her Christian faith and the belief that God awaits
humans at the end of their lives.

8) The themes in this poem are like the binaries of sunrise and the sunset. Both depict life and death.
Just as the birds, steeples and almost everything rises and shines at sunrise, the sunset causes closure,
the children follow the dominie and it looks as if they are finally going home after a long day. The
entire day represents the circle of life.

9) In the second stanza, everything comes to life or awakens with the rising sun.

10) It seemed that little children were climbing a stile to go across home to the other side at the end
of the day. The stile seemed purple because the sunlight was disappearing and it was turning dark.

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