Working with the poem :-

Q 1. In the first stanza, find words that show

(i) That it was very cold.

Ans. The rime was on the spray.

(ii) That it was late evening.

Ans. Starlight.

(iii) That the traveller was alone.

Ans. My lonesomeness.

Q2. (i) Something happened at Lyonnesse. It was

(a) Improbable.

(b) Impossible.

(c) unforeseeable.

Ans.  Unforeseeable.

(ii) Pick out two lines from stanza 2 to justify your answer.

Ans. No prophet durst declare;

Nor did the wisest wizard guess.

Q3. (i) Read the line (stanza 3) that implies the following:

‘Everyone noticed something, and they made guesses, but didn’t speak a word’.

(ii) Now read the line that refers to what they noticed.

Ans. (i) All  marked with mute surmise

(ii) My radiance rare and fathomless.