KUBLA KHAN: SHORT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1.What
is the name of the place where kubla khan wished to build a dome?
ANS-It is xanadu where kubla khan wished to build a dome.
ANS-It is xanadu where kubla khan wished to build a dome.
2.How
will be the dome?
ANS-The dome will be pompous and preferable.
3.What is the name of the river mentioned in the poem ‘Kubla
Khan’?
ANS-The name of the river is Alph mentioned in the poem ‘Kubla Khan’written by S.T.Coleridge.
ANS-The name of the river is Alph mentioned in the poem ‘Kubla Khan’written by S.T.Coleridge.
4.What is called
sacred in Coleridge’s poem ‘Kubla Khan’?
ANS-The river Alph is called sacred in Coleridge’s poem ‘Kubla Khan’.
ANS-The river Alph is called sacred in Coleridge’s poem ‘Kubla Khan’.
5.Through what is the river Alph flowing?
ANS-The river Alph is flowing through the vast underground chambers.
ANS-The river Alph is flowing through the vast underground chambers.
6.Where is the river Alph running down?
ANS-The river Alph is running down to a sunless Sea.
7.With what are five miles of fertile ground girdled?
ANS-Five miles of fertile ground are surrounded with walls and pillars.
8.Why were five miles of fertile ground girdled round?
ANS-In Coleridge’s poem ‘Kubla Khan’,Kubla Khan ordered his men to guard five miles of fertile ground with walls and towers in order to build a dome in Xanadu.
9.Where did blossom many an incense-bearing tree?
ANS-Many an incense-bearing tree flowered in the five miles of fertile ground.
10.In what sense has the poet used the word ‘cover’ in the poem ‘Kubla Khan’?
ANS-The Romantic poet Coleridge has used the word ‘cover’ in the sense of woods in his poem ‘Kubla Khan’.
11.How has the poet Coleridge seen the place near by the deep romantic chasm?
ANS-In the second stanza of the poem ‘Kubla Khan’,Coleridge has seen the place savage near by the deep romantic chasm.
12.What is haunted in the poem ‘Kubla Khan’?
Ans-The savage place near by the deep romantic chasm is haunted.
13.How often is the savage place haunted?
ANS-The savage place near by the deep romantic chasm is always haunted.
14.When is the savage place haunted?
ANS-From the phrase, ‘beneath a waning moon’, it is quite clear that the savage place is always haunted at night.
15.By whom is the savage place haunted in the poem ‘Kubla Khan’?
ANS-The savage place is haunted by a wailing woman for her demon lover in the poem ‘Kubla Khan.
16.What are there in Xanadu?
ANS-There are many bright gardens with winding rills, many balm-bearing trees, ancient forests besides the sacred river Alph in Xanadu.
17.With what are the forests compared in the poem ‘Kubla Khan’?
ANS-The forests in the poem ‘Kubla Khan’ are compared with the hills.
18.What is momently forced from the deep romantic chasm?
ANS- From the deep romantic chasm, a mighty fountain is momently forced.
19. With what was a mighty fountain forced from the deep romantic chasm?
ANS- A mighty fountain was forced from the deep romantic chasm with a continuous uproar.
20. Where is a ceaseless turmoil?
ANS- A ceaseless turmoil is in the seething fountain.
21. What are vaulting?
ANS-Huge fragments are vaulting.
22.Like what are the huge fragments vaulting?
ANS- The huge fragments are vaulting like a rebounding hail and like a chaffy grain beneath a person’s threshing tool.
23. With what are the huge fragments vaulting?
ANS-The huge fragments are vaulting with a sudden blast of the mighty fountain.
24. What is flinging up the sacred river?
ANS-The mighty fountain coming out of the deep chasm is filling up the sacred river.
25. With what is the mighty fountain flinging up the sacred river?
ANS- The mighty fountain is flinging up the sacred river with the dancing rocks.
26.Where is the mighty fountain flinging
up?
ANS-
The mighty fountain is flinging up the sacred river.
27. How is the sacred river running?
ANS-The
sacred river Alph is running meandering.
28. With what motion is the sacred river
running?
ANS-Alph , the sacred river, is running with a confused motion.
29.Through what is the sacred river
running?
ANS-The sacred river is running through wood and dale.
30.Where has the sacred river reached?
ANS-The
sacred river through wood and dale has reached the vast caves.
31. How is the sacred river sinking to a
lifeless ocean?
ANS-The
sacred river is sinking confusedly to a lifeless ocean.
32.Who has heard his ancestral voices
in the poem ‘Kubla Khan'?
ANS-Kubla khan has heard his ancestral voices in the poem ‘Kubla Khan’
written by S. T. Coleridge.
33.What is falling to a lifeless ocean?
ANS-The
sacred river is falling to a lifeless ocean.
34. Where has kubla khan heard his ancestral
voices?
ANS-Kubla Khan has heard his ancestral voices far from the lifeless ocean.
35. What has kubla khan heard far from the
lifeless ocean?
ANS-Far from the lifeless ocean, kubla
khan has heard his ancestral voices.
36. What has kubla khan heard his ancestors to say?
ANS- Kubla Khan has heard his ancestors to predict war.
37. What is floating midway on the waves?
ANS- The shadow of the pleasurable dome is floating midway on the waves.
38. Where is the shadow of the pleasurable dome floating?
ANS- The shadow of the pleasurable dome is floating midway on the waves of a lifeless ocean.
ANS-The mingled measure is heard from the fountain and the caves.
4o. Who has heard the mingled measure from the fountain and the caves?
ANS- Kubla Khan has heard the mingled measure from the fountain and the caves.
ANS-Kubla Khan has heard the mingled measure from
the fountain and the caves.
ANS-To be a sunny pleasure dome with caves of
ice was a miracle of rare device.
ANS- The poet S.T.Coleridge saw a young
unmarried woman in his dream.
ANS- The poet S.T.Coleridge saw a damsel in
his vision.
ANS- The poet only one time saw a damsel in
his dream.
ANS- The maid whom the poet saw in his dream
was an Abyssinian maid.
47. What did the poet see the Abyssinian maid to do?
ANS- The poet saw the Abyssinian maid to play on a musical instrument and to sing a song on Mount Abora.
ANS- An Abyssinian maid was playing on her
dulcimer.
50.What has the poet wished to revive in the last stanza of the poem ‘Kubla Khan?’
ANS- The poet S.T.Coleridge in the last stanza of the poem ‘Kubla Khan’ has wished to revive the Abyssinian maid’s symphony and song.
51. What would the poet build in air?
ANS- The poet would build that sunny dome and those caves of ice in air.
52. What should all see?
ANS- All should see that sunny dome and those caves of ice.
53. What did all hear?
ANS- All heard the Abyssinian maid’s symphony and song.
54. What were all saying by shouting?
ANS- By shouting, all were saying ‘Beware, Beware.’
55. When were all shouting?
ANS- When all had seen Kubla’s blazing eyes and his drifting hair, they were all shouting.
56. Who has taken honeydew?
ANS- Kubla Khan has taken honeydew.
57. Who has drunk the milk of paradise?
ANS- Kubla khan has drunk the milk of paradise.
58. What has Kubla Khan drunk?
ANS- Kubla Khan has drunk the milk of paradise.
59. ‘And ‘mid these dancing rocks at once and ever?’ - What does the word ‘these dancing rocks’ refer to?
ANS- In the above quoted line, the word ‘these dancing rocks’ refers to the huge fragments.
60. ‘It flung up momently the sacred river’ - To what does the word ‘it’ suggest here?
ANS- Here,the word ‘it’ suggests to the mighty fountain.
61. ‘A damsel with a dulcimer in a vision once I saw?’ - Here, who is ‘I?’ Whom did he see in his vision?
ANS- In the above quoted line, the word ‘I’ is used for the poet S.T.Coleridge. The poet S.T.Coleridge saw a young unmarried woman in his vision.
62. ‘Could I revive within me her symphony and song’ – for whom is the word ‘I’ used in the above quoted line? Whose symphony and song is indicated here?
ANS- The word ‘I’ is used for the poet S.T.Coleridge in the above quoted line. The Abyssinian maid’s symphony and song is indicated here.
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36. What has kubla khan heard his ancestors to say?
ANS- Kubla Khan has heard his ancestors to predict war.
37. What is floating midway on the waves?
ANS- The shadow of the pleasurable dome is floating midway on the waves.
38. Where is the shadow of the pleasurable dome floating?
ANS- The shadow of the pleasurable dome is floating midway on the waves of a lifeless ocean.
39. What is heard from the fountain
and the caves?
ANS-The mingled measure is heard from the fountain and the caves.
4o. Who has heard the mingled measure from the fountain and the caves?
ANS- Kubla Khan has heard the mingled measure from the fountain and the caves.
41.
What has Kubla Khan heard from the fountain and the caves?
42. ‘It was a miracle of rare device’ – What
was a miracle of rare device?
43. What did the poet S.T.Coleridge see in a vision?
44. Where did the poet see a damsel?
45. How-often did the poet see a
damsel in his dream?
46. Who was the maid whom the poet saw in
his dream?
47. What did the poet see the Abyssinian maid to do?
ANS- The poet saw the Abyssinian maid to play on a musical instrument and to sing a song on Mount Abora.
48. Who was playing on her dulcimer?
49. On what was the Abyssinian maid singing?
ANS-
The Abyssinian maid was singing on Mount Abora. 50.What has the poet wished to revive in the last stanza of the poem ‘Kubla Khan?’
ANS- The poet S.T.Coleridge in the last stanza of the poem ‘Kubla Khan’ has wished to revive the Abyssinian maid’s symphony and song.
51. What would the poet build in air?
ANS- The poet would build that sunny dome and those caves of ice in air.
52. What should all see?
ANS- All should see that sunny dome and those caves of ice.
53. What did all hear?
ANS- All heard the Abyssinian maid’s symphony and song.
54. What were all saying by shouting?
ANS- By shouting, all were saying ‘Beware, Beware.’
55. When were all shouting?
ANS- When all had seen Kubla’s blazing eyes and his drifting hair, they were all shouting.
56. Who has taken honeydew?
ANS- Kubla Khan has taken honeydew.
57. Who has drunk the milk of paradise?
ANS- Kubla khan has drunk the milk of paradise.
58. What has Kubla Khan drunk?
ANS- Kubla Khan has drunk the milk of paradise.
59. ‘And ‘mid these dancing rocks at once and ever?’ - What does the word ‘these dancing rocks’ refer to?
ANS- In the above quoted line, the word ‘these dancing rocks’ refers to the huge fragments.
60. ‘It flung up momently the sacred river’ - To what does the word ‘it’ suggest here?
ANS- Here,the word ‘it’ suggests to the mighty fountain.
61. ‘A damsel with a dulcimer in a vision once I saw?’ - Here, who is ‘I?’ Whom did he see in his vision?
ANS- In the above quoted line, the word ‘I’ is used for the poet S.T.Coleridge. The poet S.T.Coleridge saw a young unmarried woman in his vision.
62. ‘Could I revive within me her symphony and song’ – for whom is the word ‘I’ used in the above quoted line? Whose symphony and song is indicated here?
ANS- The word ‘I’ is used for the poet S.T.Coleridge in the above quoted line. The Abyssinian maid’s symphony and song is indicated here.
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