The Patriot by Robert Browning intext important questions for icse

 

The Patriot

1.                             “It was roses, roses, all the way,

With myrtle mixed in my path like mad

The house-roofs seemed to heave and sway,

The church-spires flamed, such flags they had,

A year ago on this very day.”

i.                   What happen just a year ago?

ii.                 How does this city decorate herself?

iii.              Whom does the city welcome and why?

 

2.                   “Had I said, “Good folk, mere noise repels---

But give me your sun from yonder skies!”

They had answered, “And afterward, what else””

i.                   What significant do this line possess?

ii.                 How does the poet use the word sun here?

 

3.                           “Alack, it was I who leaped at the sun

To give it my loving friends to keep!

Nought man could do, have I left undone:

And you see my harvest, what I reap

This very day, now a year is run.”

i.                   What does this third Stanza signify?

 

4.                     “There’s nobody on the house-top now---

Just a palsied few at the windows set;

For the best of the sight is, all allow,

At the Shambles’ Gate---or, better yet,

By the very scaffold’s foot, I trow.”

i.                   Do you find a transition here among the people?

 

5.    “Thus I entered, and thus I go!

In triumphs, people have dropped down dead.

Paid by the world, what dost thou owe

“Me?”---God might question; now instead,

’Tis God shall repay: I am safer so.”

i.                   Explain these lines.

ii.                 How does the port conclude the poem?

iii.              Do you find any note of volatility among the general people? If yes exemplified it.