Short questions and answers from Daybreak by Henry Wordsworth Longfellow for class 11 and 8

   

1.What does the title day break mean?
Ans: The title daybreak means the arrival of the new day with new hope.

2.From where did the wind come? When does it come?
Ans: The wind came out of the sea at dawn.

3.What does the wind ask the ships  to do?
Ans The wind asks the ships to sail on.

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4.What did the wind ask the forest?
Ans : The wind asked the forest to hang all its leafy banners out.

5.What did the ask the forest birds?
Ans: The wind touched the wings of the birds and asked to sing.

6.Whom did they find over the farm? 


Ans: The wind found the chanticleer over the farm.

7.What did the wind say to the chanticleer ?

Ans: The wind said to the chanticleer to blow  his clarion to wake up all.

8.What  does the wind say to the cornfield?

Ans : The wind requested the corn field to welcome  the new dawn blowing down the head.

9. How does the poet personify the wind?

Ans :The poet personifies  the wind by giving human ability . 


10. ‘Not yet in quiet lie’ What does the signify? 


Ans The line signifies that the deads are lying in the grave and their time to wake has not come.

11..What did the wind urge the bell?
Ans : The wind urged the bell to proclaim  the hour. 


12.To whom does the wind  ask to make passge for blowing ?

Answer : The wind asks the  mists to make room for blowing. 

13 when does the wind sigh and why?

Ans: The wind sighs while blowing over the churcyard. It sighs because the deads of  the graves are unable to wake up as the living beings.

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