Responding to the Poem
1. What imagery does the poet use to delineate
Summer’s day more picturesquely than any painter
could?
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2. What do you understand by ‘Psalteries of Summer’?
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3. In which lines are creatures attributed with human
qualities? How does this add to the beauty of the Summer’s
day?
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4. How would you explain the image of the ‘Hindered Flags’?
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5. Why are the pronouns referring to the Sun capitalised?
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6. Give examples from the poem to show that great poetry is a
result of close observation of natural phenomena.
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