SEE MI English Poems Questions

Poem: Did I Miss Anything?

1. Who composed this poem?
Ans: Tom Wayman has composed this poem.

2. What did the students do in the absence of their teacher?
Ans: The students sat with their hands folded on their desks in silence of their teacher.

3. What did the angel reveal to the students?
Ans: The angel revealed the students that each man and woman had to attain divine wisdom in this life.

4. How does the speaker in the first stanza spend time for the full two hours?
Ans: The speaker in the first stanza spends time with their hands folded on their desks in silence for the full two hours.

5. Why does the speaker in the second stanza think being in the class is important?
Ans: He thinks so because the students gain everything in the class to get better marks in the exam.

6. What does the speaker say in the third stanza regarding value of education?
Ans: Regarding the value of education, he says that education is meaningless, purposeless and valueless.

7. Education enlightens people with wisdom. Does the speaker in the fourth stanza agree with the statement? How?
Ans: Yes, the speaker agrees with this statement because the rays of educational light come in the classroom interaction and activities.

8. What does the last stanza suggest?
Ans: It suggests that the absent students  miss the enlightenment, wisdom, and microcosm of human experiences.

9. What does the speaker mean when he says 'none of the content of thiscourse has value'?
Ans: He says that the classroom education is valueless and meaningless. It is a waste of time as it will not effect later in life.

10. How did the teacher treat the students in second stanza?
Ans: The teacher treats them with different exams, reading tasks and a quiz according to the syllabus.

11. What does the figure 'angel' represent in this poem?
Ans: The figure 'angel' represents a teacher in the classroom who is a god messenger.

12. Is staying in the class boring?
Ans: No, it isn't.

13. What is the central theme of the poem?
Ans: The central theme of this poem is the students should be regular and well disciplined in the classroom.

14. What do you do when you are free in the classroom?
Ans: We do different reading activities when we are free in the classroom.

15. Do you think this poem can be  a guideline for the teachers and the students regarding classroom environment?
Ans: Yes, it is.

Poem: The Road Not Taken

1. Who composed this poem?
Ans: Robert Frost composed this poem.

2. What do you think the roads refer to?
Ans: The roads refer to the choices in the life.

3. Do you think the speaker of the poem has made the right decision?
Ans: No, he hasn't.

4. Is the speaker optimistic?
Ans: Yes, he is optimistic.

5. How can you say that the poet is optimistic?
Ans: We can say so as he says he should not come back with a sigh in future.

6. Why does the speaker stop there for a long time?
Ans: He stops there for long time to decide which way to go.

7. Why is he in dilemma?
Ans:  He is in dilemma because he couldn't decide which way to go.

8. Which road does he choose to travel?
Ans:  He chooses the less traveled road to travel.

9. Why does he leave the other one?
Ans: He leaves the other one for another day.

10. Where is the speaker standing while writing this poem?
Ans: He is standing on the diverged roads in a yellow wood.

11. What do you understand by the title 'The road not taken'?
Ans: The title 'The Road not taken'  means the choice that is not chosen.

12. What is the central theme of the poem?
Ans: The central theme of the poem is that we should always take a right decision in our life so that we shouldn't repent in the future.

13. What does the poet mean when he says the road is as just as fair?
Ans: He means to say that the decision he has taken is right.

14. What do you mean by 'the passing there'?
Ans: 'The passing there' means the travelers travelling the road.

15. Are the two paths equal? Give evidence.
Ans: No, the two paths aren't equal as first one is an unlimited far to see and the second is short as it s in the undergrowth.

16. Do you think he has made a right decision?
Ans: I don't think he has made a right decision because he has himself chosen the road that is less travelled by.

17. What message does the poet want to convey to the readers through this poem?
Ans: The poet wants to convey to the readers that we should solve our problems ourselves even in difficult situations. We should always take a right decision so that we should not repent in the future.

Poem: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

1. Who has composed this poem?
Ans: William Wordsworth has composed this poem.

2. Who is compared with a cloud?
Ans: The speaker is compared with a cloud.

3. Is the cloud lonely?
Ans: Yes, it is lonely.

4. Why did the speaker use the word crowd for a number of daffodils?
Ans: The speaker used the word crowd for a number of daffodils due to the presence of many daffodils at a place.

5. Where did the speaker see the daffodils?
Ans: The speaker saw the daffodils beside the lake and beneath the trees.

6. What word does the poet use to compare the daffodils with?
And: the poet used to compare the daffodils with the stars.

7. Why does the speaker dance with the daffodils?
Ans: The speaker dances with the daffodils to get the permanent kind of happiness from the flowers

8. How do the daffodils dance?
Ans: the daffodils dance sprightly.

9. What is the theme of the poem?
Ans: The theme of the poem  poem is to enjoy the nature.

10. Is the loneliness of the first stanza similar to solitude of the last stanza?
Ans: No, the loneliness of the first stanza  shows physically alone but solitude in the last stanza shows his pleasant situation.

11. How does the speaker connect daffodils with Milky Way?
Ans: The speaker connects daffodils with milky way as daffodils are continuously seen just as the stars on the milky way shine and twinkle all the time in the sky.

12. What is the relation between the wave and the daffodils in the poem?
Ans: The relation between the wave and the daffodils in the poem is of the jocund company.

13. Where does the speaker sit and what does he do in the last stanza?
Ans: He sits on his couch and concentrates his mind on the flowers.

14. How does the speaker feel in the last stanza?
Ans: He feels very happy in the last stanza.

15. Why does the speaker think of daffodil in the solitude?
Ans: The speaker thinks of daffodil in the solitude because daffodils make us merry and fills our mind with interesting fact.

16. Why does the speaker represent himself as a poet in the third stanza?
Ans: The speaker represents himself as a poet in third stanza because he is very happy to see the beautiful scenes of the daffodils.

Poem: The Chimney Sweeper

1. Who has composed this poem?
Ans: William Blake has composed this poem.

2. Why did the speaker cry?
Ans: The speaker cried because his father sold him to the owner of the chimney.

3. When did the speaker's mother die?
Ans: His mother died when he was too young.

4. Why do you think the speaker's father sold him?
Ans: I think  his father sold him to be free from parental duties as he was not capable to take care of him.

5. Where did the speaker sleep?
Ans: The speaker slept in soot.

6. Why did Tom Dacre cry?
Ans: He cried because his head was shaven.

7. What is the positive side of shaving his head?
Ans: The positive side of shaving his head is that the soot can not spoil his white hair.

8. How did the angel open the black coffin?
Ans: The angel opened the black coffin with a bright key.

9. What does the clause "That curled like a lamb's back" mean?
Ans: The clause means the boy had curly  white hair like hair of a lamb's back.

10. Where did the speaker see thousand of sweepers?
Ans: He saw thousands of sweepers in the black coffin.

11. What did the children do when they were set free?
Ans: They ran towards the river jumping, laughing and feeling relaxed.

12. What message was given to Tom at last?
Ans: Tom was given a message that God would be his father if he had been a good boy and he wouldn't have to worry for happiness.

13. At what condition would Tom get joy?
Ans: Tom would get joy if he would be a good boy.

14. What do you think there might be in their bags?
Ans: I think there might be brushes and chimney sweeping materials in the bags.

15. What did Angel tell Tom?
Ans: Angel told Tom that God would be his father if he had been a good boy and he wouldn't have to worry for happiness.

16. How was the morning?
Ans: The morning was cold.

17. Why were the children working in the chimney?
Ans: They were working in the chimney to survive as they had been sold.

18. Why were the children's heads shaved?
Ans: Their heads were shaved to prevent vermin and soot from infesting.

19. What happened when Tom was sleeping?
Ans: When Tom was sleeping, he had a dream that thousands of sweepers like him had been locked up in the black coffins.

20. How did the boys feel to bath in the river?
Ans: They felt relaxed and happy to bath in the river.

21. What dream did Tom have?
Ans: Tom had a dream that thousands of sweepers like him had been locked up in the black coffins.

22. Why did the speaker say 'weep' instead of sweep?
Ans: The speaker said so because he was so young that he couldn't pronounce the word.

23. What did Angel do?
Ans: Angel opened the black coffins with a bright key and set them free.

24. What is the central theme of the poem?
Ans: The central theme of the poem is that people have lost their sense to sell their children and to employ the innocent young children to do the different works.

Poem: Past and Present

1. Who has composed this poem?

Ans: Thomas Hood has composed this poem.

2. What is the poem about?

Ans: The poem is about past childhood and its memory.

3. What does the poet remember in the first stanza?

Ans: The poet remembers the house where he was born in the first stanza.

4. What does he wish in the first stanza?

Ans: He wishes the long past night had born his breath away.

5. What does the poet remember in the second stanza?

Ans: He remembers the garden where he used to play and its colorful flowers in the second stanza.

6. How does the poet describe his childhood in the third stanza?

Ans: The poet describes that he used to swing and enjoy the breeze in his childhood.

7. Was the poet really closer to the heaven when he was a child? Why does he think so?

Ans: Yes, he was really closer to the heaven when he was a child. He thinks so as he is farther off from the heaven now.

8. What does the verse "the sun came peeping in at the morn" indicate to the school children?

Ans: The verse " the sun came peeping in at the morn" indicates that the school children who don't awake up early, the sunlight makes them awake up.

9. What did the poet do in the third stanza?

Ans: He used to play and enjoy the swing.

10. What is the central theme of this poem?

Ans: The central theme of this poem is the contrast of the childhood which was free of tension and full of enjoyment, and the world of adult which is he floods of pain, stress, pressure and anxiety of works in the daily life.