English - Poetry Chapter 5: An Epitaph short Answer Questions
Question 1. Where does the lady lie?
Answer: The lady lies in an epitaph. She lies there in the memory of her beloved.
Question 2. How does she look to the poet?
Answer: She looks to the poet the most beautiful lady ever bom in the west country.
Question 3. Was she a kind and considerate lady?
Answer: No, She was not a considerate lady. She had the habit of moving here and there.
Answer: The poet thinks about the beauty that it is short-lived and will disappear one day or another.
Question 5. What does the poet mean when he says. ‘And when I crumble.’
Answer: The poet is sad to think that nobody will remember the most beautiful lady in the west country.
Question 6. What according to the poet, are the two qualities of ‘beauty’? Discuss with your own comments.
Answer: The two qualities of’ beauty’ are short-lived and rare. The poet wants to say that beauty is rare and it disappears after some time.
Answer: When the poet will die nobody will remember the beautiful lady of The West Country.
Question 8 Who has composed the poem 'AN EPITAPH' ?
Answer: Walter de la Mare
Answer: 1873
Question 10 Walter de la Mare was died in ________ ?
Answer: 1956
