Question

Descriptive Passage THE ARROW AND THE SONG I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to Earth, I knew not where ;For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight.I breathed a song into the air,It fell to earth, I knew not where ;For who has sight so keen and strong,That it can follow the flight of song?Long, long afterward, in an oakI found the arrow, still unbroken ;And the song,from the beginning to end,I found again in the heart of a friend. Answer the following questions.

1)In what position did the poet find the arrow after a long time? 2) Explain the meaning of the last line of the last stanza? 3) What did the poet shoot? 4) What does the phrase ‘breathed a song’ in the second stanza mean? 5) Why is it difficult to see the flight of the song?

Answer 1

1. The poet found the arrow in an oak, still unbroken, after a long time.
2. The last line of the last stanza means that the poet found the song he had breathed into the air, from the beginning to end, in the heart of a friend. This suggests that the song had been passed on and remembered by someone else, and that the poet found it again in the form of a memory or a shared experience.
3. The poet shot an arrow.
4. The phrase ‘breathed a song’ in the second stanza means that the poet sang or created a melody, but did not physically release it into the air like an arrow. The metaphor suggests that the song was a creation of the poet's mind or heart, and not a physical object that could be seen.
5. It is difficult to see the flight of the song because it is an intangible and non-physical creation of the poet's mind or heart. The metaphor suggests that the song is like a bird that flies away and cannot be followed or tracked, unlike an arrow which can be seen and physically traced