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Read the given poem carefully and answer the questions that follow:

SPRING

Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king;

Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring;

Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing,

Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo.

The palm and may make country houses gay.

Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds, pipe all day,

And we hear ay birds tune this merry lay,

Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo.

The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet,

Young lovers meet, old wives a?sunning sit,

In every street these tunes our ears do greet,

Cuckoo, jug-jug-, pu-we, to witta woo!

Spring! the sweet Spring! -Thomas Nash

(i) 'Spring is the year's pleasant king'. What does this mean?

(ii) What do the maids and pretty birds do when flowers bloom?

(iii) Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to witta-woo. What are these words meant to represent?

(iv) A Shepherds pipe all day. Does this mean that:

(a) they spend the time smoking.

(b) they fill water with a water pipe.

(c) they play sweet music upon the pipes.

Answer:

(i) Spring is said to be the year?s pleasant king, because of all the four seasons in a year, spring is the most pleasant when after the cold winters, the flowers bloom again, the birds and animals sing, play and are happy.

(ii) When flowers start blooming, the maids dance in a ring and pretty birds sing sweet songs.

(iii) These words are meant to represent the sounds made by different kinds of birds.

(iv) (c) they play sweet music upon the pipes.