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    Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.                                                         (1 x 3 = 3) "Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back" (i) Whom does T refer to? (ii) What does the poet know? (iii) What is the doubt the poet is referring to? Or ''I was vain: the loud waves lash'd the shore Return or aid preventing, The water wild went o'er his child, And he was left lamenting". (i) Who is "he" here? (ii) What does "water wild" symbolize? (iii) What does "lamenting" mean?

Answer:

  (i) The word T refers to the poet Robert Frost. (ii) -The poet knows that a way leads to its own direction. (iii) The poet doubted whether he could even come back to the first one. Or (i) The word "he" here refers to Lord Ullin. (ii) The "water wild" suggests the surging waves of the turbulent sea under the storm. (iii) The word means bemoaning.