CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

CLASS 9

THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
HOW MANY ROWS OF BEANS DOES THE POET WANT TO PLANT?
A
7 ROWS
B
8 ROWS
C
9 ROWS
D
10 ROWS
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -After going to Innisfree, the poet wants to have nine rows of beans, a hive for the honey bee, and live there all alone and peacefully. Was this answer helpful?

Detailed explanation-2: -The poet wants to build a small hut of clay and wattles. He will have a nine bean-rows and a hive for the honeybees.

Detailed explanation-3: -Answer and Explanation: The image of ‘nine bean-rows and a hive’ suggests that the speaker wishes for a simple life, where he only grows what he needs.

Detailed explanation-4: -The line reveals the speaker’s intention to live a minimal life. What he desires most is to live amid nature. This is also one of the major themes of the poem. The speaker further states that he dreams of having nine rows of bean plants and a hive for honeybees at his cabin in Innisfree.

Detailed explanation-5: -Summary. The poet declares that he will arise and go to Innisfree, where he will build a small cabin “of clay and wattles made.” There, he will have nine bean-rows and a beehive, and live alone in the glade loud with the sound of bees (“the bee-loud glade”).

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