Jharkhand Board Class 9TH English Notes | A SLUMBER DID MY SPIRITY SEAL
JAC Board Solution For Class 9TH English Poetry Chapter 10
COMPREHENSION
■ Read the following passage and answer the questions that
follow :―
1. A slumber did my sprit seal-
I had no human fears.
She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years.
Q. (a) Name the poem from where this extract has been taken.
(b) Who has written these lines?
(c) What has made the poet feelingless?
(d) How has the slumber affected the poet?
(e) What does the poet say, can she not feel now?
Ans. (a) Poem- A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal.
(b) Written by- William Wordsworth.
(C) The slumber, caused by the death of the poet's loved
one has made the poet feelingless.
(d) The slumber has sealed his spirit. He cannot feel anything
now.
(e) The poet says that she cannot feel the touch of earthy
years.
2. No motion has she now, no force-
She neither hears nor sees,
Rolled round in earth's diurnal course
With rocks and stones and trees.
Q. (a) Name the thing she does not possess now.
(b) Why can she not hear or see now?
(c) Where is she now?
Ans. (a) She has no motion or force, no hearing capability or
eyesight which she possessed when she was alive.
(b) She can not hear or see now because these are possessed
by living beings. And she has died.
(c) She, as the poet thinks, is rolled around in the 'earth's
diurnal course with rocks, stones and trees.
Short Answer Type Quesions
Answer these questions in about 30-40 words cach :―
Q. 1. How did the poet feel about the death of his loved ones
Ans. The poet feels extremely shattered but feels a great peace
also. He feels himself completely cut off from the world. He feels
no human fears.
Q. 2. What caused the slumber?
Ans. Someone loved by the poet has died some times ago. It
shook him completely. He is almost cut off from the world. He
calls this state 'a slumber'.
Q. 3. Why does the poet call the state of detachment as 'a
slumber'?
Ans. The poet calls this 'a slumber' because it has cut him off
from the world. He can feel nothing as we do when he are asleep.
Q.4. How has the slumber sealed his spirit?
Ans. Under the shock of his loved one's death, he became
emotionless. He cannot feel anything nor does he react. It seems as
if his spirit has been closed off by the slumber.
Q. 5. How can she be rolled round in 'earth's diurnal
course'?
Ans. The poet loves her so much that he can see her even after
her death. He imagines her in every permanent aspect of nature-
the day and the night with stones, rocks and trees.
Q. 6. How will time not affect the poet's beloved?
Ans. The poet's beloved is dead. She has become a thing over
which time has no effect. She has no motion and no force. She
neither hears nor sees. She has become an integral part of time
itself.
Q. 7. How has the poet's beloved become an integral part of
nature?
Ans. The poet's loved one has become an integral part of
nature as she is rolled now in the nature's course. She is merged
with rocks, stones and trees.
Q. 8. How does the poct pay his warm tribute to his loved
one?
Ans. The poet pays warm tribute to his loved one by making
her an immortal thing. Time can't touch her. She has become an
integral part of nature's objects like days, rocks, stones and trees.
Q.9. How does the poet make his loved one a part of nature?
Ans. The poet makes his loved one a part of nature by saying
that she is rolled round in earth's diurnal course. She is also rolled
with rocks, stones and trees.
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