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Time to answer
A. Choose the correct option.
1. What is the main theme of the poem?
that our unconscious runs rampant when we are asleep
that everyone has dreams
that dreams are a result of reason, not imagination
that both people and dreams are reasonable
2. Which figure of speech has the poet used in these lines?
Dreams are but interludes which Fancy makes;
When monarch Reason sleeps
metaphor simile personification alliteration
3. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
aaabbccddeeffgggh aaabbbcccdddeeefff
ababcdcdefefghghh aabbccddeeffggghi
4. Which of these lines/sets of lines illustrates that our unconscious mind runs rampant
when we are asleep?
Dreams are but interludes which Fancy makes
Sometimes forgotten things long cast behind
Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
A mob of cobblers, and a court of kings:
Light fumes are merry, grosser fumes are sad
Both are the reasonable soul run mad
The nurse’s legends are for truths received,
And the man dreams but what the boy believed.
B. Answer these questions.
1. Why does the poet call dreams as ‘interludes’?
2. Why does the poet describe Fancy and Reason as two opposite forces working in our
minds?
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