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2. Complete the details suitably, based on your reading of the poem.

a. Tone: The speaker is describing his thoughts to his mother. His descriptions are

intended to create pictures in the mind of the listener.

So, we can say that the tone of the poem is (calm/jovial), (evocative/curious), and
(indifferent/earnest).

b. Mood: The mood of the poem is . Give a reason for your choice.

i. gloomy ii. thoughtful iii. scary iv. funny

c. Refrain refers to the words or lines that are repeated at regular intervals. Identify
the refrain in the poem.

d. Imagery: The poet uses quite a few mental pictures that lead us to relate with our
own experiences or imagine new ones. For example: far-away fields, flocks of wild
ducks. Identify some other examples of imagery from the poem.

e. Rhyme scheme: This poem has no rhyme scheme because it has been written

in free verse. Even though there isn’t a rhyme scheme, we can call it a poem
because it has some of the other elements of poetry like r _ _ _ _ m, imagery, and
expression of emotion.

f. Personification: Choose two examples of personification from those given below.

i. sun ii. village iii. morning iv. shadows

v. ferry iv. sky vii. trees

and are examples of personification because .

Let’s ponder

A. Read the extracts and answer the questions that follow.

1. Where snipes with their dancing tails stamp their tiny footprints upon the clean soft mud;

Where in the evening the tall grasses crested with white flowers invite the moonbeam to
float upon their waves.

Mother, if you don’t mind, I should like to become the boatman of the ferryboat when I
am grown up.

a. State whether True or False. The poet describes the movement of a bird.

b. Complete the following suitably.

We can say that the white flowers have been personified because .
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