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Most important Short Questions with Answers Sea Fever by John Masefield

  Sea Fever 1) Who wrote the poem ‘Sea Fever’? Ans:- John Masefield wrote the poem ’Sea Fever’. 2) What was the favourite place of the poet?  Ans:- To see the sea was the favourite place of the poet.  3) What do you mean by steer?  Ans:- Steer means to control the direction of movement.  4) What was the colour of mist on the sea’s face?  Ans:- The colour of the mist was grey.  5) What thing did not the poet deny?  Ans:- The poet can not deny the call of running tide.  6) Write the name of Sea-bird?  Ans:- Sea-gull is the name of a sea-bird.  7) Who wants to live a gypsy life?  Ans:- The poet wants to become a gypsy life.  8) Write the name of the sea-animal?  Ans:- Whale, a name of the sea-animal.  9) What do you mean by whetted knife? Ans:- Whetted knife means sharpened knife.  10) What kind of day does the poet prefer for siling?  Ans:- The poet prefers vagrant gypsy lives in a sea-gull and whale’s way.  11) What does the poet do when the
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"The hapless soldiers sigh" by William Blake

What does William Blake suggest in the  line " The hapless soldiers sigh"? It symbolises how men are drafted into war and have no choice to serve their country . As these soldiers unwillingly march to the beat of the country's forceful drum, they know their lives will be taken, as their " sigh runs in blood down the palace wall" . Blake uses the sense of destruction to explain how people are forced to repair " the weakness " and " woe" of their society. In the third stanza of London , William Blake raises his poetic hand to protect the life of boys who are involved into war force full only for penury. He criticized the authorities like the Church and the State who are responsible for that brutal war , that is nothing but the shadow of life through the soldiers and using words like " sigh " . W.Blake so how appalled he is at how authorities are being immune to the distress of their common people. The soldier
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Fra Lippo Lippi say about his early life.

 Fra Lippo Lippi say about his early life. Fra Lippo Lippi is an 1855 dramatic monologue written by the Victorian poet Robert Browning which first appeared in his collections Men and women. Throughout this poem, Browning depicts A 15th century real life Painter Filippo Lippi and his early life through dramatic monologue. Fra Lippo Lippi, introduce us to the monk as he is being interrogated by some Medici Watchmen who have caught him out of at night because Lippo's patron is Cosimo de Medici,  he has little to fear from the guards but he has been out partying and is clearly in a mood to talk. He shares with the men the hardship of monastic life. He is forced to carry on his relationship with women in secret and his superiors are always defeating his Good Spirit. If he was orphaned while still a baby and starved until his aunt gave him over to a convent, but with the help of a monk , he achieved a new life to improve himself and become a good man and a good Painter.
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'Happy Isles' and 'Achilles' from Ulysses poem

"It may be we shall touch the happy isles...the great Achilles,who we know" ---locate the lines and explain the allusions involved in 'Happy Isles' and 'Achilles'.---Explain (Ulysses) These lines are extracted from Victorian  poet Alfred lord Tennyson's  Ulysses in 63-64 lines. The story recalled the great epics of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and  mighty characters- Ulysses and Achilles . In the poem, the speaker Ulysses said  of Heaven and Achilles to his best friend by the touch of the poet's poetic sensation. " Happy Isles "means the islands of the blessed, a place where big- time Greek Heroes like Achilles enjoyed perpetual summer but now he died. Achilles was the mighty character of Iliad who came back the honour of Greece in the War of Troy . Here in the poem, Ulysses realises that he and his companions  might die but would feel peace with that. If they die, they might even get to go to heaven and visit their old
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Poetic journey From Experience to Innocent in Fern Hill poem

"I was Prince of Apple towns"-- who is the prince here? What do you mean by apple towns?-----Explain (Fern Hill) This line taken from Modernist poet Dylan Thomas' s Fern Hill , here in the poem, Prince is the poet himself. He came back on his journey from experience to innocent childhood through poetic imagination, where he had spent most of the time during childhood. ' Apple towns ' referred to nature and the age of childhood of the poet, mentioned in the first stanza line number 6 where the poet praised the good days of childhood and called himself as a Prince. It is a one kind of metaphor of youth. The poet describes it almost in a Blakian  style from innocence to experience.
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"The Fiend looked up, and knew His mounted scale aloft" from Paradise Lost

"The Fiend looked up, and knew His mounted scale aloft:  Nor more;  but fled Murmuring, and with him fled the  shades of night"-----Explain (Paradise Lost ) These quoted lines are extracted from the last two lines of Paradise Lost Book- 4 written by Puritan poet John Milton . When Satan is ready to fight with Gabriel in paradise but that time, the appearance in the sky of a pair of Golden Scale and Satan recognises the sign and flies off. Satan , after completed his evil planning to establish his kingdoms on Paradise , the house of Adam and Eve   take rest in paradise as many form such as Cormorant, a bird of a prey; lion, tiger and ultimately caught up as the form of toad by Gabriel's guard's while tempted Eve at night. Gabriel who questions Satan about his motives for entering Eden . Satan crafting replies that those in Hell seek a better place. He had come to scout on earth but not to do evil. After further discussion, Gabriel accuses Satan
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