Ch11 The listeners
Read these lines from the poem and answer the questions that follow.
Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair,
That go down to the empty hall, hearkening in an air stirred and shaken
By the lonely traveller’s call.
b)What is the meaning of the word ‘hearkening’? Who was hearkening?
c)Who stirred and shook the air? What does the stirring and the shaking of the air suggest?
d)Use the adjective ‘lonely’ in a sentence of your own.
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Read these lines from the poem and answer the questions that follow.
Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair,
That go down to the empty hall, hearkening in an air stirred and shaken
By the lonely traveller’s call.
b)What is the meaning of the word ‘hearkening’? Who was hearkening?
c)Who stirred and shook the air? What does the stirring and the shaking of the air suggest?
d)Use the adjective ‘lonely’ in a sentence of your own.
Pls tell nd pls don't spam it is very urgent
U can tell only one also
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Hearken is an old fashioned form of the word hark, meaning "to listen" (see hark). In the Bible, prophets and saints are always telling people to hearken to their words. While hark is still used today, hearken is pretty much obsolete — unless perhaps you happen to be an old school preacher.