Question

Read the following lines and answer the questions that follow.

And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on those lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed;

(i) What adjective is used to describe the lip?

(ii) What did the sculptor read well?

OR

The one who read the passions well is the

(a) speaker

(b) traveller

(c) sculptor

(iii) What have still survived, stamped on those lifeless things?

(iii) What have still survived, stamped on those lifeless things?

(iv) What are eferred to as ‘those lifeless things’?

(v) Whose hand and whose heart is the traveller talking about?

(v) Whose hand and whose heart is the traveller talking about?

(vi) Who mocked at the king’* passions?

(vii) What does ‘mocked’ mean?

(vii) What does ‘mocked’ mean?

(viii) What does the word ‘them’in the last line refer to?

Answer 1

(i) Wrinkled

(ii) The sculptor read passions well.

(iii) The passions – emotions and expressions – which the sculptor stamped on the lifeless things.

(iv) The stone statue in general and the vast and trunkless legs of stone, and the shattered visage in particular are referred to as ‘those lifeless things’.

(v) ‘The hand’ refers to the hand of the sculptor with which he sculpted the scuplture and ‘the heart’ refers to the heart of the king that fed the sculptor with passions.

(vi) The sculptor.

(vii) ‘Mocked’ here means ‘imitated’.

(viii) ‘Them’ in the last line refers to the passions.