Chapter- 3.1                        Silver


1. Question: Who is the poet of the poem “Silver”?


Answer: Walter de la Mare is the poet.


2. Question: What is the central theme of the poem?


Answer: The beauty of the night under the silver light of the moon.


3. Question: How does the moon walk in the poem?


Answer: The moon walks slowly and silently.


4. Question: What does the moon wear in the poem?


Answer: The moon wears “silver shoon” (silver shoes).


5. Question: What does the moon see on the trees?


Answer: She sees silver fruit upon silver trees.


6. Question: What catches the moon’s beams?


Answer: The casements (windows) catch her beams.


7. Question: What is meant by “silvery thatch”?


Answer: The roof made of straw appears silver in moonlight.


8. Question: How is the dog described?


Answer: The dog is sleeping in his kennel like a log.


9. Question: What colour are the dog’s paws?


Answer: His paws shine silver.


10. Question: What does the word “cote” mean?


Answer: It means a small shelter for birds.


11. Question: What are the doves doing?


Answer: The doves are sleeping with their white breasts peeping out.


12. Question: How do the doves appear in the moonlight?


Answer: They appear as if they have silver-feathered sleep.


13. Question: Which animal is “scampering by”?


Answer: A harvest mouse.


14. Question: What colour are the mouse’s claws?


Answer: The mouse’s claws are silver.


15. Question: How is the mouse’s eye described?


Answer: As a silver eye.


16. Question: Which creatures are described as moveless?


Answer: The fish in the water are moveless.


17. Question: Where do the fish gleam?


Answer: In the water, beside the silver reeds.


18. Question: What are reeds?


Answer: Tall grass-like plants found near water.


19. Question: What effect does the moonlight have on all objects?


Answer: It gives everything a silver appearance.


20. Question: What mood or atmosphere does the poem create?


Answer: A calm, quiet, magical night-time atmosphere.


21. Question: What literary device is used repeatedly in the poem?


Answer: Repetition of the word “silver.”


22. Question: Why is repetition used in the poem?


Answer: To emphasize the silver glow covering everything.


23. Question: What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?


Answer: The rhyme scheme is AA BB CC DD EE FF.


24. Question: Which objects are at rest in the poem?


Answer: The dog, the doves, and the fish are all motionless.


25. Question: What time of night is shown in the poem?


Answer: A quiet and peaceful late-night scene.


26. Question: What does the phrase “like a log” suggest about the dog?


Answer: The dog is completely still and sound asleep.


27. Question: What natural features appear in the poem?


Answer: Trees, water, reeds, and the moon.


28. Question: What is the main colour imagery in the poem?


Answer: Silver imagery.


29. Question: How does the moon interact with the landscape?


Answer: It peers around, lighting every object with silver.


30. Question: Why is the poem titled “Silver”?


Answer: Because the moonlight turns everything into a silver-like scene. 

Answer by Dimpee Bora