When I Set Out for Lyonnesse NCERT Text Book Questions and Answers

When I Set Out for Lyonnesse Working with the poem

Question 1.
In the first stanza, find words that show
(i) that it was very cold.
(ii) that it was late evening.
(iii) that the traveller was alone.
Answer:
(a) rime
(b) starlight
(c) lonesomeness

Question 2.
(i) Something happened at Lyonnesse. It was
(a) improbable.
(b) impossible
(c) unforeseeable.
Answer:
(a) improbable
(c) unforeseeable

(ii) Pick out two lines from stanza 2 to justify your answer.
Answer:
No prophet durst declare
Nor did the wisest wizard guess

Question 3.
(i) Read the line (Stanza) that implies the following:
“Everyone noticed something, and they made
guesses, but didn’t speak a word.”
Answer:
All marked with mute surmise

(ii) Now read the line that refers to what they noticed.
Answer:
My radiance rare and fathomless.

When I Set Out for Lyonnesse Introduction

British poet and novelist Thomas Hardy once visited a parish to supervise the restoration of a church. He was then a young apprentice architect. The people noticed two things about him-a new glow in his eyes and a crumpled piece of paper sticking out of his coat pocket. That paper contained the draft of a poem-you are going to read below.