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

Q1: Read the Stanza and answer the questions that follow:
“Never shall a young man,
Thrown into despair
By those great honey-coloured
Ramparts at your ear,
Love you for yourself alone
And not your yellow hair.”

(i) Who is the speaker in this stanza?
(ii) Why is the youngman in despair?
(iii) With what are her ears compared?
(iv) Name the poem and poet.
Ans:
(i) The poet is the speaker, he is addressing Anne Gregory.
(ii) The youngman is the lover of Anne. He is in despair because he has seen the white hair of his beloved.
(iii) Her ears are composed with ramparts, which are high, wide walls around a castle or a fort.
(iv) The poem “For Anne Gregory” composed by “W. B. Yeasts”.

Q2: Read the Stanza and answer the questions that follow:
“But I can get a hair-dye
And set such colour there,
Brown, or black, or carrot,
That young men in despair
May love me for myself alone
And not my yellow hair.”

(i) Who is the speaker in these lines?
(ii) What colour would she give her hair?
(iii) Why is she ready to do so?
(iv) Name the poem and poet.
Ans:
(i) Anrie Gregory is the speaker in these lines.
(ii) She would give her hair colour brown or black or carrot.
(iii) She is ready to do so because her lover feels that men love her because of her golden hair. She wants to be loved for her inner beauty.
(iv) The poem “For Anne Gregory” composed by “W. B. Yeasts”.

Q3: Read the Stanza and answer the questions that follow:
“I heard an old religious man
But yesternight declare
That he had found a text to prove
That only God, my dear
Could love you for yourself alone
And not your yellow hair.”

(i) Who is ‘I’ in the first line?
(ii) What did he find yesternight?
(iii) What does the poet convey in the last three lines?
(iv) Name the poem and poet.
Ans:
(i) ‘I’ in the first line is the poet— W. B. Yeats.
(ii) The poet heard an old religious man declaring that only God could love us for ourselves alone and not our hair.
(iii) The poet conveys that human beings are incapable of seeing inner beauty. They love someone only for the external beauty. Only God can love someone for the inner beauty.
(iv) The poem “For Anne Gregory” composed by “W. B. Yeasts”.