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Glossary, haunt (n)- a place that one visits often, where, , 1), , *, , (11) fret (v) wear out, gnaw, (12) fallow (n) uncultivated land, *(13) fairy foreland (n) a scenic place that looks, -, , one spends a lot of time, , *, , -, , (2) coot and hern (n) - water birds, , -, , sally (n), , (3), , quick journey, , a, , -, , (4) bicker (v), *(5) ridges (n), (6) thorpes (11), , run, , -, , like an entrance, , noisily, , *, , -, , long, narrow mountain range, old English word for a village, (7) brimming (adj), be full to the point of, a, , -, , fairy land, (14) willow-weed (n) a type of plant, (15) mallow (n) - a plant with purple flowers, (16) lusty (adj) healthy and strong, to, , -, , -, , overflowing, , *, , *, , -, , *(17) front (n) - a freshwater fish, *, , (8) sharpes and trebles (n) musical sounds, , (18) flake (n), , small, flat piece of something, , -, , -, , *, , (19) waterbreak (n) a place in a brook where the, surface of the water is broken by, irregularities, -, , ), , eddying (adj), , L0), , babble (v), water, , -, , move, , -, , to, , flowing, , in, , make, , over, , a, , circular motion., , murmuring, , stones, , sound of, , on the bottom., , *, , (20), , grayling, , -, , a, , fresh water fish with, , a, , long fin.
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Paraphirase, The narrator of the poem, The Brook, takes us along its course. It narrates that it, begins from, the places often visited by birds. It makes noise while coming down the valley. The sunlight makes, the brook's water, , sparkle as it flows among the ferns and through several villages. Finally it, , passes, by Philip's farm and joins the overflowing river. It creates a lot of bubbles and noise while swirling, , around an obstacle., The brook says that it makes a lot of turns and etches out a path full of curves., Passing by many ups and downs, the brook carries blossoms on its way. A lot of fishes accompany, it. Moving through different curves, the brook clashes and creates silvery water break. At the base of, , the brook, there are golden coloured stones. The reflection of the sunlight on the moving waters of, the brook makes it seems, , as, , if the, , sun, , beams, , are, , dancing., , At night under the moon and the stars, it murmurs through thorny bushes. Avoiding the obstacles,, it, , finally flows into the river.
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*, , gravel (n) pounded stones, (22) skimming swallows (n), , *(21), , -, , -, , touch the brook, fly over it., (23) shallows -, , water is not, , (24), , lightly, , and, , swallows that, , quickly, , as, , full of, , -, , an, , uncultivated, , (adj)-full ofsmall,, , reoi, , rounded pebhi, , *(28), , cresses, , barrier, obstacle, , -, , (n), , (29) trout (n), , pricklyshrubs., , (n), , or stones., , (27) bars (n), , very deep., -, , wildernesses, , (26) shingly, , they, , an area of the brook where the, , brambly (adj), , (25), , -, , -, , small, , plants, , freshwater fish of salmon family
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MASTER KEY QUESTION SET 3.4, , following questions., , Q.1., , Answer the, , (1), , Who is the speaker in this poem?, , Ans. The brook is the speaker in this poem., (2), , Which lines are repeated in the poem? What, , do they mean?, Ans. The lines 'For men may come and men may go,, But I go on forever' are repeated. They mean, , that nature is immortal whereas we are mortal., Men are born and will die but nature is eternal., , *(3), , Where does the brook join the river?, , Ans. The brook joins the river near Philip's farm., *(4), , Mention the various places that the brook, , flows past., Ans. The brook flows past the dwellings of coot and, , hern, the ferns, a town, villages, valleys, hills,, , ridges, several bridges and Philip's farm., *(5), , Often the brook speaks of itself as if it is, , human. For example, 'I bicker down a valley'., Find two other exampl s, , of the human, , activities of the brook., , Ans. (i) I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance, , (ii), *(6), , I, , murmur, , under, , moon, , and stars., , The poet uses words to create pictures or, 'images' in the reader's mind. For example,, , 'And sparkle out among the fern'. Write down, 3 such lines., Ans. (i), , By twenty thorpes, a little town, , An half a hundred bridges., , (ii) By thirty hills I hurry down., or slip between the ridges., , (ii) I make the netted sunbeam dance, Against my sandy shallows.
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(7), , Which other, , things, , in nature, , can, , say, , For men may come and men nmay go,, , But I go, , on, , forever.'?, , Ans, The sun, stars, cloOuds, mo0n, wind, space ar, things in nature that can say the given lines, , (8), , List the phrases which have the expression, , 'many aa.., Ans. many a curve, many a fairy foreland,, many, , (9), , a, , silvery, , waterbreak., , List the prepositions you find in this poem., , Ans. from, among, to, in, with, etc., (10), , Spot and, or, , Ans. (i), , write any three alliterative, sentences from the poem., I, , slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance., Sound of 's' and 'g' is repeated., (i) I bubble into eddying bays., I babble, , the, , pebble., Sound of 'b' is repeated., on, , (ii) By many a field and fallow., Sound of 'f is, , repeated., , phrases
