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|. Take turns with your partner to ask or, answer these questions. Explain to, him/her why you think your answer is, correct. Quote from the poem if, necessary. Write down your answers., , Question 1., , Wordsworth saw a group of reapers at, work., , Answer:, , Not true, , Question 2., , In this poem the poet speaks to his, companion / to himself. (underline the, correct answer), , Answer:, , To himself

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Question 3., , The poet saw some bundles of grain in the, field., , Answer:, , True., , Question 4., , The reaper’s voice was resonant and, sonorous., , Answer:, , Not true., , Question 5., , The reaper’s song was joyous. (True / Not, True) scan the poem and find three, adjectives to support your answer, Answer:, , Not true., , adjectives: Old, unhappy sorrow, loss or, pain

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Question 6., , What welcomes travellers in the deserts, of Arbia?, , Answer:, , The sweet notes of the nightingale in a, lonely desert seemed to welcome the tired, travelers in an oasis in an Arabian desert., , Question 7., , Where do birds sing in deserts?, Answer:, , Obviously birds are not found in deserts,, but when the tired travellers reach any, oasis these the birds are found singing.

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Question 8., , Can you imagine the “silence of the seas”?, Explain this beautiful expression to your, partner., , Answer:, , The silence of the seas means a sea that, is really calm and peaceful with only calm, waves moving, and there are no ships and, boats moving about. The sea is poetically, ‘silent’ because no storms, gales are, blowing to disturb the peace of the sea., , Question 9., What breaks the silence of the seas?, , Answer:, The song of the Cuckoo-bird breaks, , the silence of the seas.

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Question 10., , There are five words in the poem that are, related to music, scan the poem and find, them., , Answer:, , The five words in the poem that are, related to music are Chaunt, strain,, , welcome notes, plaintive numbers, and humble lay.