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Read the extracts and answer the questions that follow:

‘The inward eye is open then


To glories, which in dreams


Visit the sleeper's couch, in robes


Woven of the rainbow's beams.’


(i) What does the poet see with his 'inward eye'?


(ii) What does the poet compare his experience?

(i) The ‘inward eye’ refers to ‘inner vision’ of a poet. He describes that with his spiritual vision he begins to see ‘glories’ means ‘precious things of eternal peaceful life’. Blessed with the beauty of nature in the moonlight, the poet feels some intellectual thoughts inside him that enables him to seek those treasures of an intense life which is filled with peace and only can be seen in dreams instead of a real world.

(ii) The poet compares his experience to his dream world. While sleeping on a couch, when poet begins to lose himself in the colorful thoughts of an imaginary world where there is no boundaries and restrictions of the outer world and he is completely free to weave (bind) his unreal beliefs, the same feeling of happiness is felt by poet while seeking the beauty of nature through his inner vision.


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Read the extracts and answer the questions that follow:

‘How vague are all the mysteries


Which bind us to our earth;


How far they send into the heart


Their tones of holy mirth;’


(i) How does the splendid scenario influence the poet?


(ii) As a result what does he realize?


(iii) What effect do 'they' have on a man?


(iv) Explain 'holy mirth'?

 3

Read the extracts and answer the questions that follow:

‘How lovely are the phantoms dim


Which bless that better sight,


That man enjoys when proud he stands


In his own spirit's light;’


(i) What are 'Phantoms din'?


(ii) How do they help us?


(iii) How do they make a man 'proud'?

 3

Read the extracts and answer the questions that follow:

‘I bless my nature that I am


Allied to all the bliss,


Which other worlds we're told afford,


But which I find in this.’


(i) What is the 'bliss' referred to here?


(ii) In what way is the poet allied to the bliss?


(iii) According to the poet, where else is one likely to find such bliss?

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Based on your understanding of the two poems in the unit, write an article on the topic "Nature is to be experienced and not merely seen", in about 80-100 words.