Sankardev Sishu Niketan
Sankardev Sishu Niketan is an educational institution in Assam, inspired by Srimanta Sankardev’s teachings. It promotes Assamese culture, moral values, and quality education, fostering holistic development among students.
Lines Written in Early Spring
Q.1. What do you think were the “blended notes” which the poet heard ?
Answer : The poet means the whisting of the spring breeze through the woods by the ‘blended note’.
Q.2. Why does the poet lament at the condition of man ? What is the condition that the poet talks about ?
Answer : In ‘Lines Written in Early Spring’ the poet, William Wordsworth, laments mankind’s disconnect from nature. He contrasts nature’s joy with human sorrow, grieving how man has strayed from harmony. The poet mourns humanity’s moral decline and loss of peace and innocence.
Q.3. In your own words describe the aspects of nature presented in the third, fourth, and fifth stanzas ?
Answer : William Wordsworth, the poet of the poem ‘Lines Written in Early Spring’ describe in the third stanza how the primrose in its thick foliage and periwinkle in its round garlands enjoy the air it breathes. The fourth stanza depicts the pleasure and thrill in the birds that hopped and played around the poet. The joy and pleasure of the budding twigs is described by the poet in the fifth stanza.
Q.4. From your reading of the poem what do you understand by “Nature’s holy plan” ?
Answer : By ‘Nature’s holy plan’ in the poem ‘Lines written in Early Spring’, the poet means how nature wants and intends all beings to live in peace and harmony with each other.
Q.5. What does the poet observe in nature, when he looks around him ?
Answer : When the poet looks around him, he observes how all follow, birds and trees live in perfect harmony and pleasure, but man, on the other hand, has failed to live along with others of his own kind.
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