Trees


Responding to the Poem

1. What imagery does the poet use to delineate

Summer’s day more picturesquely than any painter

could?

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2. What do you understand by ‘Psalteries of Summer’?

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3. In which lines are creatures attributed with human

qualities? How does this add to the beauty of the Summer’s

day?

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4. How would you explain the image of the ‘Hindered Flags’?

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5. Why are the pronouns referring to the Sun capitalised?

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6. Give examples from the poem to show that great poetry is a

result of close observation of natural phenomena.

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