CBSE Class 10 English Ode To The West Wind Worksheet

ODE TO THE WEST WIND

Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow by choosing the option you consider the most appropriate.

I. thou on whose stream, ‘mid the steep sky’s commotion,
Loose clouds like earth’s decaying leaves are shed,
Shook from the tangled boughs of Heaven and Ocean

Angles of rain and lightning:
(i) Clouds are like leaves because
(a) the trees touch the sky
(b) they are crumpled like leaves
(c) they are scattered far and vide like leaves
d) they bring rain and thunder

(ii) ‘Tangled boughs of Heaven and Ocean’ refers to
(a) clouds scattered like leaves
(b) branches of a great tree
(d) an imaginary tree of cloud masses

(iii) ‘Angles of rain and lightening’ refers to
(a) the west wind
(b) the clouds
(c) the rain
(d) the leaves

II. …….. thou dirge

Of the dying year, to which this closing night
Will be the dome of a vast sepulcher,
Vaulted with all thy congregated might
Of vapors, from whose solid atmosphere
lack rain, and fire, and hail will burst:

(i) The West Wind is the dirge of the dying year as
(a) it produces musical effect while blowing
(b) it produces a saddening effect
(c) it blows when the year is about to end
d) it is the harbinger of a new year