Class 10 English Chapter 1 Extract Based Question Answers - First Flight

Q1: Read the stanza and answer the questions that follow:
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree.

(i) Name the poem and poet.
(ii) Where was the crow?
(iii) What did the crow do?
(iv) What does a “hemlock tree’ represent?
Ans: (i) These lines have been taken from the poem “Dust of Snow” composed by Robert Frost.
(ii) The crow was on the hemlock tree.
(iii) The crow shook the tree is such a way that the dust of snow fell on the poet.
(iv) A hemlock tree is a poisonous tree. It is not considered auspicious. It represents sorrow.

Q2: Read the stanza and answer the questions that follow:
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.

(i) Who is ‘I’ in these lines
(ii) What changed the mood of the poet?
(iii) What did the poet decide?
(iv) What was the mood of the poet before and after the incident?
Ans: (i) ‘I’is the poet himself here.
(ii) The poet’s mood changed when the dust of snow from the hemlock tree fell down on the poet.
(iii) The poet decided to save rest of the day so that there is no harm or sorrow for him.
(iv) The poet was in depressive mood before the incident and after the incident the poet was in enjoyable mood.