THE BROOK--STANZA BASED QUESTIONS

THE BROOK

I.                 From the first stanza

 Questions

1.How does the brook flow after taking its 'birth' ?

2• Which birds frequent the place where the brook takes its birth ?

3. How does the brook now down the valley ?

Answers

1. It flows hurriedly.

2.Coots and herns.                                                                                                                

3. It flows down the valley with a noise.

II.By thirty hills I hurry down,
Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorpes, a little town, And half a hundred bridges,
Questions
1.      What come the way of the brook ?
2. What does "Twenty thorpes' here mean ?
3. What is the poetic device used here ? Answers
1. Hills, ridges, thorpes, farms etc. 2. It means twenty small villages or hamlet, 3. Alliteration.
III. Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever Questions I. Where does the brook flow before joining the river? 2. What is the 'destiny' of man mentioned here? 3. What does 'I go on forever' mean ? Answers   I. By Philip's farm 2. Taking birth and dying S'..JOO < 3. I will go on flowing forever.