Short Answer Type Questions। SAQ questions of ‘Asleep in the Valley’ poem in class 12। Mark 1। SET-2
1. Where are the feet of the soldier?
Ans:- The feet of the soldier are lying among the flowers in the valley.
2. How does the poet describe the soldier's smile?
Ans:- The smile of the soldier is that of an infant, gentle and innocent.
3. What did the poet ask Nature to do?
Ans:- The poet ask Nature to take pity on the soldier sleeping in the valley and provide him warmth so that he may not catch a cold.
4. Where are the insects doing in the poem ‘Asleep in the Valley’?
Ans:- The insects are humming, perhaps trying to wake the soldier from his sleep, but in vain.
5. How can it be said that soldier is sleeping in peace?
Ans:- The soldier is not disturbed either by the humming of insects or by cold weather as he rests his hand on his breast and thus sleeps peacefully.
6. What do the ‘two red holes’ in the poem ‘Asleep in the Valley’ signify?
Ans:- The two holes in the side of the soldier suggest two bullet wounds which have caused his death.
7. How is the dead soldier shown respect by nature?
Ans:- Nature has shown respect to the dead young soldier by providing flowers at his feet.
8. ‘‘The humming insects don't disturb his rest’’.- why?
Ans:- The humming insects don't disturb the soldier because his rest is an eternal rest i.e. he is already dead.
9. With what did the poet compare the soldier's smile?
Ans:- The smile of the dead soldier is compared with the beautiful and innocent smile of a child.
10. What type of a poem is ‘Asleep in the Valley’?
Ans:- ‘Asleep in the Valley’ is a sonnet, having two stanzas of four lines each and two stanzas of three lines each.
11. What does the phrase ‘without guile’ signify?
Ans:- The phrase ‘without guile’ means without trickery and it highlights the innocence of the soldier.
12. Why does the poet ask Nature to keep the soldier warm?
Ans:- The poet asks Nature to keep the soldier warm so that he may not catch cold.
13. Whom does Arthur Rimbaud pray to keep the dead soldier warm?
Ans:- Arthur Rimbaud prays Nature to keep the dead soldier warm.
14. How does the reader recognize that the soldier is asleep in a different sense?
Ans:- The expression ‘two red holes’ at the end of the poem makes the reader recognize that the soldier is asleep in a different sense.
15. What is described as ‘gentle, without guile’?
Ans:- The smile of the dead soldier is described as ‘gentle,without guile’.
16.‘‘He may catch cold’’- why does the poet fear so?
Ans:- The poet fears so because the soldier is sleeping under the open sky.
17. What does the concluding lines of the poem reveal?
Ans:- The concluding line of the poem is a rude shock as it reveals that the young soldier is a victim of war.
18. How do you know that the valley is rich in its flora and fauna?
Ans:- The valley has different flowers, different spices of plants and insects and it proves that its flora and fauna.
19. What is the setting of the poem?
Ans:- The setting of the poem is probably the Franco-Russian war of 1877 or the Franco-Prussian war of 1870.
20. What is the verse from of the poem?
Ans:- The poem is written in free verse form.
21. How can you say that ‘Asleep in the Valley’ is an anti-war poem?
Ans:- ‘Asleep in the Valley’ is an anti-war poem because the ending of the poem evokes our pity at the untimely and unfortunate death of a young soldier.
22. How many red holes were there on the soldier's body?
Ans:- There were two red holes on the soldier's body.
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