ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -’Under the Greenwood Tree’ is a song taken from Shakespeare’s play As You Like It, and its leafy theme is in keeping with the setting for this romantic comedy, the Forest of Arden.

Detailed explanation-2: -Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School is a novel by the English writer Thomas Hardy, published anonymously in 1872. It was Hardy’s second published novel, and the first of what was to become his series of Wessex novels.

Detailed explanation-3: -The theme of the poem “Under the Greenwood Tree” by Shakespeare is the charms of forest life. Life in the forest is enjoyable, but there is rough wind and winter too. People will be able to enjoy the sweet songs of birds. In the forest, they have to give up ambition and seek their food.

Detailed explanation-4: -Shakespeare published a quarto of 154 sonnets in 1609. He wrote the poems throughout his career. A sonnet is a form of verse with these main characteristics: One stanza of 14 lines.

Detailed explanation-5: -4.1 Under The Greenwood Tree Question 1. Answer: The rhyme scheme for the last four lines is abba.