Exercise of A day Poem by Emily Dickinson ( Class 12 )

 Exercise of A day Poem by Emily Dickinson

Understanding the text

Answer the following questions.

a. How does the poet describe the morning sun in the first stanza?

b. What does the line ‘The news like squirrels ran’ mean?

c. What do you understand by the line ‘The hills untied their bonnets’?

d. Is the speaker watching the morning sun? Why? Why not?

e. How does the sun set?

 Reference to the context

a. What, according to the speaker, is a day?

b. What purpose does the hyphen in the first line serve in the poem?

c. What makes this poem lyrical and sonorous? Discuss.

d. Who are the target audience of the speaker? Why?

e. The poem seems to describe a day for children. How would the adult people

respond to this poem? Discuss this poem with your parents/guardians and write

the answer based on their responses.

 Reference beyond the text

a. Observe your surroundings of one fine morning and write a poem based on your

own experience.

b. Write a personal essay on A Day in the School.