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• How are the deities in the temple taken in a procession during the festivals?
• Why do the palanquin bearers sing while carrying the bride? What do you think this song is about?
• Why do you think the poetess has used two contradictory feelings of ‘laugh’ in the fourth line of the first stanza and ‘tear’ in the second line of the third stanza?
• Why has she been compared to a star?
• Read the extract and answer the questions that follow:Lightly, O lightly we bear her along. She sways like a flower in the wind of our song, She skims like a bird on the foam of a stream, She floats like a laugh from the lips of a dream.a. Why do the palanquin bearers carry the bride ‘lightly’? The palanquin bearers carry the bride ‘lightly’ becauseb. How does the poet describe the bride?c. Explain the comparison “She sways like a flower”.
• Pick out the words from the poem which describe the movement of the bride.
• Read the extract and answer the questions that follow:“She skims like a bird on the foam of a stream, She floats like a laugh from the lips of a dream. Gaily, 0 gaily we glide and we sing, We bear her along like a pearl on a string”a. How does the poet describe the movements of the bride?b. What do the palanquin bearers do while carrying the bride?c. What figure of speech is used in the above line? Name and pick the line.
• Read the extract and answer the questions that follow:Softly, O softly we bear her along, She hangs like a star in the dew of our song She springs like a beam on the brow of the tide, She falls like a tear from the eyes of a bride, Lightly, O lightly we glide and we sing, We bear her along like a pearl on a string.a. Why do the palanquin bearers carry the bride singing? What is this song about?b. What is the bride compared to in the above stanza?c. What contradiction is there in the poem? Why has the poet used it?
• Pick out the examples of alliteration from the poem.
• Some words and lines are repeated in the poem. Work in pairs and list the words and lines that are repeated. Why do you think the words are repeated?