CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -(i) These words bring to our minds the image of buzzing bees. (ii) These words bring up the image of linnets flying across an evening sky. (iii) These words evoke not only the image but also the soft sound of a lake’s water washing the shore.

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer: (i) These words create an image of buzzing bees in the glade.

Detailed explanation-3: -18. How does the poet describe the midnight and noon on the island? Ans. Both midnight and noon on the island are visualized by the poet to be very bright with only different hues of brilliance – the twinkling light of the moon and the stars in the midnight and the bright purple shine in the noon.

Detailed explanation-4: -The poet describes lake Innisfree as a place full of the bounties of nature. He sees the cloudy sky, the shimmering stars in the night sky, the purplish glow of the afternoon Sun and the linnet bird flying in the evening sky. The sound of the cricket’s song is also pleasing to him.

Detailed explanation-5: -A visit to Innisfree gives immense joy, pleasure and peace to the poet. The sounds of honeybees, crickets and the lake water lapping by the shore tempt him to go there again and again.