CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Ans. The hair-dye will help Anne in changing the colour of her hair from yellow to brown or black or carrot. Thus she would prove that a young lover loves her for herself alone and not for her yellow hair.

Detailed explanation-2: -Anne Gregory is so beautiful that no man is capable of ignoring her external beauty and looking inside her real nature. Her attractive external*features stop men from knowing the real person. This is what that makes the speaker say that young men love Anne for her hair and not for herself alone.

Detailed explanation-3: -The poet says that Anne Gregory is liked by every man only because of her beautiful yellow hair and not for who she is as a person. We all like to be loved for who we are as a person, our character, our likes, our beliefs, our principles etc.

Detailed explanation-4: -Love you for yourself alone. And not your yellow hair. The poet is talking to a beautiful girl named ‘Anne Gregory’. He tells her that a man will never fall in love with her because of her inner beauty, they’ll always love her because of her beautiful face and yellow hair.

Detailed explanation-5: -Solution : The old religious man declared that only God can love and accept her as she really is . God never loves anyone for her appearance or external beauty . Human beings can’t be so large hearted . They would never love her for what she is but for her great honey-coloured hair.