(i) What does the poet wish about the song? (ii) What can the poet achieve through music and how?

Question

Choose of the extracts given below and answer the questions, that follow, in 50-60 words each:

Could I survive within me

Her symphony and song,

To such a deep delight, twould win me,

That with music loud and long,

I would build that dome in air,

That sunny dome! those caves of ice!

(i) What does the poet wish about the song?

(ii) What can the poet achieve through music and how?

Answer 1

(i) He could revive the song sung by the damsel.

(ii) The deep delight of music would enable him to build the sunny dome in air.