English - Poetry Chapter 1: Sweetest Love I Do Not Goe short Answer Questions

Short Questions & Answers

Q1. Where does the poet want to go ?

Ans . The poet wants to go on a journey but the nature of the journey is not known in the poem. But it’s clear that he wants to go as a ‘ test run ‘ .

Q2 . What does he use as a metaphor ?

Ans . He uses ‘ the Sun ‘ as a metaphor . He assures his beloved that as the sun have appeared again he will also return from the journey .

Q3 . How does the poet compare himself to the sun ?

Ans . The poet says that even if the sun does not have sense , he desire and a beloved he comes back again then why can’t I whereas I ( the poet ) have everything .

Q4. What does the poet believe & why ?

Ans . The poet believes that he will make his journey successful because he has everything sense , desire and a beloved .

Q5 . What makes a man’s power feeble ?

Ans. A man has a weakness that he kneels down before his bad luck . He loses ability to face it.Even he does not take a profit of his good fortune .

Q6. How does the beloved waste the poet’s life ?

Ans . The poet says that once his beloved told that he is the part of her , and he lies in her . But at present she is sighing , she is weeping . Like this she is wasting poet’s life .

Q7. In what way will the lovers remain united ?

Ans . Actually the poet says that the one who are true lovers , they never part away , they always remain alive .

Q8 What makes a man’s power feeble ?

Answer: Disability to add a moment to his happiness and unnecessary sighing as weeping on his grief make a man’s power feeble.

Q9 In what way the lover will remain united ?

Answer: The lover will remain united by continuing to love each other and taking his death as well as separation merely as a sound sleep.

Q10. Has the poet found another lady ? Does he hope from this world ?

Ans. No, the poet has not found any other lady . Nor he hopes from this world . He loves only his beloved and her true love