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1.	What is described in the poem?
Answer» The poetess Charlotte Druitt Cole describes the clothes on the clothesline swaying in the wind, waiting to be free.

2.	What are the clothes compared to? Give two examples.
Answer» The clothes are compared to white snow, restive horses, fairy-tale witches, a bird and a sail.

3.	Find suitable objects for each comparison. Example: Petals or flowers or feathers whiter than snow.
Answer» Ocean or eyes bluer than sky. Leaves or moss greener than grass. Crow or night blacker than coal. Sapphire or rose redder than blood. Stars or light brighter than sun.

4.	Why are clothes compared to living things?
Answer» The clothes are compared to living things, as they feel they need to be free from any kind of bondage just like living things.

5.	Rewrite these comparisons using the comparative degree. Example: Whiter than snow
Answer» Bluer than sky Blacker than coal. Redder than blood.

6.	Form groups and discuss what must have happened to the handkerchief. Write the story in your own words.
Answer» Wash your handkerchief clean. Hang it with a peg to dry in the wind. Watch how it flutters.

7.

List all the phrases from the poem in which two or more words are joined with ‘and’.

Answer»

1. hither and thither

2. caper and prance

3. shiver and skip

4. flipping and flapping and flopping

8.	The events described in the poem take place at a certain place, at a certain period of the year, under specific weather conditions. Describe the place, the time and the weather conditions.
Answer» The events described may be taking place in the backyard of a household, during the spring season, whilst the warm air in the afternoon makes the weather seem warmer than usual.

9.	What do they do in the merry March wind?
Answer» The clothes on the clothesline shiver and skip in the merry March wind.

10.	What are the clothes on the clothesline compared to?
Answer» The clothes on the clothesline are compared to fluttering creatures that are as white as snow.

11.	How do they go?
Answer» They go flipping, flopping and flapping away.

12.	How do the clothes on the clothesline dance?
Answer» The clothes on the clothesline dance hand-in-hand in a row, hither and thither, and to and fro.

13.	What was she doing for fun?
Answer» She was flipping and flopping and flapping for fun.

14.	What did she gleam like?
Answer» She gleamed like a sail in the sun.

15.	How did she fly?
Answer» She flew like a bird.