Read the extracts given below and complete the statements that follow

1.	Read the extracts given below and complete the statements that follow :“Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt downI’ was sad as sad could beAnd we did speak only to breakThe silence of the sea !”(a) Name the poem(b) Name the poet.(c) Who is ‘we’ referred to here ?(d) Why were they “sad” ?
Answer» (a) The name of the poem is ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’. (b) The poet is S. T. Coleridge. (c) ‘We’ here refers to the sailors of the ill fated ship. (d) They were sad because they were stranded in a deep, silent sea with the sun beating down on them.

Read the extracts given below and complete the statements that follow :“Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt downI’ was sad as sad could beAnd we did speak only to breakThe silence of the sea !”(a) Name the poem(b) Name the poet.(c) Who is ‘we’ referred to here ?(d) Why were they “sad” ?

Answer»

(a) The name of the poem is ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’.

(b) The poet is S. T. Coleridge.

(d) They were sad because they were stranded in a deep, silent sea with the sun beating down on them.