Question 1:
In the first stanza, find words that show
(i) that it was very cold.
(ii) that it was late evening.
(iii) that the traveller was alone.
Answer:
(i) the rime was on the spray
(ii) starlight
(iii) my lonesomeness
Question 2:
Something happened at Lyonnesse. It was
(a) improbable.
(b) impossible.
(c)unforeseeable.
Answer:
unforeseeable.
Question 3:
Pick out two lines from stanza 2 to justify why it was unforeseeable.
Answer:
‘No prophet durst declare;
Nor did the wisest wizard guess.’
Question 4:
Read the line (stanza 3) that implies the following.
‘Everyone noticed something, and they made guesses, but didn’t speak a word.’
Answer:
All marked with mute surmise.
Question 5:
Now read the line that refers to what they noticed.
Answer:
My radiance rare and fathomless.