Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening Question Answer | Invitation to English 2 | +2 1st Year | CHSE Odisha

Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening Question Answer CHSE Odisha | CHSE Odisha Class 11 Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening Question Answer

Think it out

Question 1.
How is ‘woods’ different from ‘forest’?
Answer:
‘Woods’ is different from the forest, because the former refers to an area of trees, smaller than a forest.

Question 2.
Where does the rider stop?
Answer:
The rider stops by some woods.

Question 3.
Why does he stop?
Answer:
The beauty of the woods tempts him to stop and enjoy the beauty of snow wood.

Question 4.
“He will not see me stopping here” – what does this expression mean?
Answer:
The expression ‘He will not see me stopping here’ means the owner of the woods living in the village will not see the poet stopping by the woods.

Question 5.
Why does the horse give his harness bells a shake?
Answer:
The poet, riding across the countryside, stops by snow-wrapped woods. The horse is accustomed to stopping at farmhouses, but on the present occasion, he finds it strange that though his master has stopped, there is no farmhouse nearby. Therefore, the horse gives his harness bells a shake as if to ask whether his master has stopped there by mistake

Question 6.
What is ‘the only other sound’ besides that of harness bells?
Answer:
The only other sound besides the harness bells is the sound of easily flowing wind and falling snow.

Question 7.
Why does the poet use the expressions ‘dark’, ‘deep’, and ‘darkest’?
Answer:
The poet uses the expressions ‘dark’, ‘deep’, and ‘deepest’ to express the fact that he is fascinated by the natural beauty of the woods.

Question 8.
How do the speaker, the owner of the woods, and the horse react to the beauties of nature?
Answer:
It may be noted that the fascination of the woods is felt only by the speaker, not by the horse (who is a sub-human) or by the practical man (the owner of the woods).

Question 9.
What picture of natural beauty do you get from the poem?
Answer:
The beauty we get from the poem is natural. It is one of near-silence. The lovely, dark, and deep woods prove this fact.

Question 10.
In the final stanza, the speaker says that he is not yet ready to ‘sleep’. What has he to do before he can take a rest?
Answer:
The poet has his routine duties to do before he can take a rest.

Question 11.
What does the expression, “The darkest evening of the year”, suggest? Does it mean ‘the longest night of the year’ or ‘the most depressing state of his mind’? Give a reasoned answer.
Answer;
The expression ‘the darkest evening of the year’ means the darkest night of the year. Because he has a long way to go. Besides, the poet’s delight in contemplating the woods filling up with snow seems to him to be an abandonment of his responsibilities when he realizes that he has an appointment to keep with his death.

Question 12.
A four-line stanza is called a quatrain. How many quatrains are there in the poem?
Answer:
There are four quatrains in the poem.

Post-Reading Activities.

Question 1.
Arrange the following sentences in their logical order to narrate the theme of the poem.
(a) He passes by the woods which are ‘lovely, dark and deep’.
(b) The poet is riding his horse to a destination.
(c) But he remembers that he has ‘promises to keep’ before he can rest.
(d) It is snowing and the wind blows gently.
(e) The beauty of the woods tempts him to stop and enjoy the sight.
(f) It is an evening in winter.

Answer:
(f) It is an evening in winter.
(d) It is snowing and the wind blows gently.
(b) The poet is riding his horse to a destination.
(a) He passes by the woods which are ‘lovely, dark and deep’.
(e) The beauty of the woods tempts him to stop and enjoy the sight.
(c) But he remembers that he has ‘promises to keep’ before he can rest.

Question 2.
Note the rhyme scheme in the first quatrain. It is AABA (‘know’, ‘though’, ‘here’ ‘snow’). What is the rhyme scheme in other quatrains?
Answer:
The rhyme scheme is BBCB (queer, near, lake, year), CCDE (shake, mistake, sweep, flake), and EEEE (deep, keep, sleep, sleep) in 2nd, the 3rd, and 4th quatrains respectively.