Read the following lines and answer the questions that follow.I met a

1.	Read the following lines and answer the questions that follow.I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown.(i) Who is the 7′ in the passage? The poet or the speaker.(ii) Who did the speaker meet?(iii) Where had the traveller come from?(iv) Whom does the word ‘who’ in the second line refer to?(v) What did he see standing in the desert?(vi) What was lying half sunk in the sand?(vii) What was the expression on the shattered visage?(viii) ‘Trunkless legs of stone’ here means (a) two pillars of stone (b) a man who has no trunk (c) a statue of a man with only the legs.
Answer» (i) The poet or the speaker. (ii) A traveller (iii) An antique land. (iv) The traveller. (v) He saw two vast and trunkless legs of stone. (vi) A shattered visage (face). (vii) There was a frown on the visage. (viii) (c) a statue of a man with only the legs.

Read the following lines and answer the questions that follow.I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown.(i) Who is the 7′ in the passage? The poet or the speaker.(ii) Who did the speaker meet?(iii) Where had the traveller come from?(iv) Whom does the word ‘who’ in the second line refer to?(v) What did he see standing in the desert?(vi) What was lying half sunk in the sand?(vii) What was the expression on the shattered visage?(viii) ‘Trunkless legs of stone’ here means (a) two pillars of stone (b) a man who has no trunk (c) a statue of a man with only the legs.

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(i) The poet or the speaker.

(ii) A traveller

(iii) An antique land.

(iv) The traveller.

(v) He saw two vast and trunkless legs of stone.

(vi) A shattered visage (face).

(vii) There was a frown on the visage.

(viii) (c) a statue of a man with only the legs.