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a. Which figure of speech is used in the stanza very vividly?
i. personification ii. imagery

iii. simile iv. onomatopoeia

b. Explain: And the live air, fanned with wings/ Bright with breeze and sunshine.

i. It refers to the movement of the air being stirred or ‘fanned’ by the wings of
swallows.

ii. It refers to the movement of the water being stirred or ‘fanned’ by the wings of
swallows.
iii. It refers to the movement of the air being stirred or ‘fanned’ by the tails of swallows.

iv. The birds are flying everywhere and the air is so filled with birds that the air seems
alive and bright in sunshine.

c. According to the poet, what are the things that you will find everywhere?

d. What is the underlying significance of these lines?

i. that people of the world live in different countries and experience different kinds of
environment
ii. that people of the world live in different countries but experience the same natural
environment

iii. that people of the world live in different countries only swallows move to and fro

iv. that people live in different environments and they should learn from the swallows
and move to and fro

Time to think and answer

1. According to the poet, how are the people of the world connected? Do you agree with the
poet? Why or why not?

2. What does the line ‘Something kindred greets us still’ convey?

Time to enjoy

1. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

2. Find examples of personification in the poem.

What feelings are evoked in you when you read the poem ‘Swallows Travel To and Fro’?
Write in about 80 words.

3. The poet repeats the title of the poem ‘Swallows Travel To and Fro’ in the first line of the
first stanza. Why do you think he does so?

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