Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow: I c

1.	Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow: I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight I got from looking through a pane of glass I skimmed this morning from the drinking trough And held against the world of hoary grass. It melted, and I let it fall and break.i. What did the poet see through the ‘pane of glass’?ii. From where had he got this piece of glass?iii. How could the glass ‘melt’?
Answer» i. The speaker saw the frost-covered (‘hoary’) grass, distorted by the mirror (‘glass’) of the ice. ii. The night was cold enough to freeze the top layer of the trough into a sheet of ice, and the speaker picked up (‘skimmed’) this sheet. iii. The ice started to melt, probably from the warmth of his hands.

Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow: I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight I got from looking through a pane of glass I skimmed this morning from the drinking trough And held against the world of hoary grass. It melted, and I let it fall and break.i. What did the poet see through the ‘pane of glass’?ii. From where had he got this piece of glass?iii. How could the glass ‘melt’?

Answer»

i. The speaker saw the frost-covered (‘hoary’) grass, distorted by the mirror (‘glass’) of the ice.

ii. The night was cold enough to freeze the top layer of the trough into a sheet of ice, and the speaker picked up (‘skimmed’) this sheet.

iii. The ice started to melt, probably from the warmth of his hands.