CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

CLASS 10

FOR ANNE GREGORY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The poet says to the girl that a young man can become hopeless, if you will reject him.
A
False
B
True
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The poet says to the girl that a young man can become hopeless, if you will reject him. But this doesn’t mean that he had true love for you in his heart. It is because you have beautiful hair with which he had fallen in love.

Detailed explanation-2: -One who loves the soul can capture the heart and can only selflessly love others. Summary of the poem For Anne Gregory is not just a lesson to Anne Gregory but a lesson to all the people that you can’t find anyone, other than God who will love you for who you are.

Detailed explanation-3: -What makes a young man not to love the woman referred to in the first stanza? Ans. The woman has beautiful yellow hair. But the outer part of her ears is not attractive.

Detailed explanation-4: -For Anne Gregory: CBSE Class 10 English First Flight Poem By William Butler Yeats Summary & Notes.

Detailed explanation-5: -He says that a true lover will be the one who will love her for her inner qualities and not her looks. To this, Anne says that she will change her looks by dying her hair into some other colour. She will become less attractive and then, maybe, she will find a true love for herself.

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