A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal Questions and Answers Class 9 NCERT

A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal Questions and Answers Class 9 NCERT

All textual and extra questions and answers to the poem 'A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal' for Class 9 based on NCERT (English Beehive).

1. “A slumber did my spirit seal,” says the poet. That is, a deep sleep ‘closed off’ his soul.

How does the poet react to his loved one’s death? Does he feel bitter grief? Or does he feel a great peace?

Ans: The poet is in shock but not as much. According to me, the poet’s reaction to his loved one’s death is not of bitter grief. On her death, he did not feel any human fears. His love is now beyond any earthly fears. Therefore, it is difficult to say that he is feeling bitter grief or great peace.  

2. The passing of time will no longer affect her, says the poet. Which lines of the poem say this?

Ans: The third and fourth line of the poem says this.  
         “She seemed a thing that could not feel   
           The touch of earthy years.”

The lines of the poem say that the passing of time will no longer affect her.

3. How does the poet imagine her (beloved) to be after death? Does he think of her (beloved) as a person living in a very happy state (a ‘heaven’)? Or does he see her now as a part of nature? In which lines of the poem do you find your answer?

Ans: After her death, the poet imagines her buried under the earth with like rocks, stones and trees and rolling around with the earth in its daily motion. He thinks of her to be beyond any feelings of joy or sorrow. Yes, he sees her now completely as a part of nature.

I find my answer the following lines of the poem:

Rolled round in earth’s diurnal course

With rocks and stones and trees.

 

A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal Extra Questions and Answers Class 9

 

1. Name the poet of the poem ‘A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal’.

Ans: William Wordsworth is the poet of the poem ‘’A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal.’’

2. “A slumber did my spirit seal,”—

      What do you mean by ‘Slumber’ and what did seal the poet’s spirit?

Ans: It is the Slumber of death, into which she (Lucy) has gone forever and the poet’s spirit sealed that the death of her.

3. What does ‘slumber’ means referred to in the poem?

Ans: In the poem, slumber means ‘sleep’ or ‘death’.

4. What happened to the poet’s beloved?

Ans: The poet’s beloved was dead. She was not alive now.

5.  What slumber is the poet talking of?

Ans: The poet is talking of a slumber of death, into which she (Lucy) has gone forever.

6. ‘She seemed a thing that could not feel’ --- What could she not feel now?

Ans: She could not feel any effect of time now.

7. ‘She seemed a thing that could not feel

     The touch of earthly years’

     What do you mean by ‘earthly years’?

Ans: By ‘earthly years’, the poet means time as it is measured on this earth. It is measured in terms of months, years and seasons. Lucy is now dead, and so she will not feel ‘the touch of earthly years’. In other words, time will now have no effect on her.

8. What impact did a slumber have on the beloved of the poet after her death?

Ans: After the death of the beloved, she had no motion and no force at all. She could neither hear nor see. She was deprived of all these forever.

9. How does she become an inseparable part of nature?

Ans: She becomes an inseparable part of nature as she is rolled round in earth’s course with rocks, stones and trees.

10. ‘Rolled round in earth’s diurnal course’ --- What do you mean by ‘diurnal course’?

Ans: ‘Diurnal’ means daily. The earth’s diurnal course is its daily movement round its axis. Lucy has now become completely one with nature. Like rocks, stones and trees she, too, goes on her daily course in the cosmic world.

11. What is the central idea of the poem ‘A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal’?

Ans: This poem expresses the poet’s deep sorrow at the death of a sweet child named Lucy. He says that Lucy has lost all physical motion and force. But now time will have no effect on her. Like other things of nature, she has become a part of the cosmic world.