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A SLUMBER DID MY SPIRIT SEAL - QUESTIONS

The document contains questions related to the poem 'A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal', including multiple-choice questions about specific lines, short answer questions exploring the poet's meaning, and long answer questions analyzing themes and the depiction of death. It prompts readers to interpret the text and engage with its deeper meanings. The questions focus on the poet's expression of loss and the state of his beloved.

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A SLUMBER DID MY SPIRIT SEAL - QUESTIONS

The document contains questions related to the poem 'A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal', including multiple-choice questions about specific lines, short answer questions exploring the poet's meaning, and long answer questions analyzing themes and the depiction of death. It prompts readers to interpret the text and engage with its deeper meanings. The questions focus on the poet's expression of loss and the state of his beloved.

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A SLUMBER DID MY SPIRIT SEAL - QUESTIONS

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1.A slumber did my spirit seal -

“I had no human fears

She seemed a thing that could not feel

The touch of earthly years.

No motion has she now, no force –

She neither hears nor sees,

Rolled round in earth’s diurnal course

With rocks and stones and trees.”

i. What does ‘slumber’ refer to here?


a) A deep impenetrable sleep
b) A condition of peaceful oblivion
c) A state of inertness
d) A paralyzed physical state

ii. In what context has ‘rocks and stones and trees’ been used in the extract?
a) The poet is united with the rocks and stores and trees
b) The poet’s beloved is part of this earth now
c) The poet’s beloved is united with the rocks and stones and trees
d) None of the above

iii. Find a word in the extract which means ‘daily’.

iv. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?


a) ababcdcd
b) aa bccdd
c) abbaacd
d) aaabcdcd

SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS: (Within 40 words)

2. What does the poet mean by ‘spirit’ and in what state was it?
3. How does the poet come out of his ‘slumber’?
4. Explain the line: “The touch of earthly years”. Who would not feel the touch of earthly
years?

LONG ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS: (Within 120 words)


A SLUMBER DID MY SPIRIT SEAL - QUESTIONS

5. How does the poet reveal that his beloved is dead without using the words ‘death’ or
‘dead’? What, according to him, has happened to his beloved after her death?
6. What do you think is the central theme of the poem?

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