What does the following stanza mean?
"And many other beastsAnd birds, skin, bone, and feather,Have been taken from their feastsAnd hung up there together,"
The gamekeeper is a noble man.
The gamekeeper had shot many birds and beasts.
The gamekeeper had saved many birds and beasts.
The gamekeeper collected the bones and feathers of animals and birds.
Fill in the blanks using an appropriate word from the poem 'The Gallows'.
To hang and ______ in rain and wind.
fly
swing
flap
talk
"Where he swings in the wind and rain,
In the sun and in the snow".
-- Who is the 'he' referred to in these lines?
gamekeeper
weasel
crow
magpie
What does " the dead oak tree bough" suggest?
the gallows
weak branch of the oak tree
the bough is dead
none of these
Identify the part of speech of the underlined word.
On the dead oak tree bough.
noun
adjective
pronoun
preposition
Why cannot the crow commit more sins?
It is dead
It flew away
It started building a nest
None of these
Match the following:
A B
a. Weasel i. no sleeper
b. Crow ii. had long tongue and long tail
c. Magpie iii. lived in the sun with all his family
a - i ; b - ii ; c - iii
a - ii ; b - iii ; c - i
a - iii ; b - i ; c - ii
a - iii ; b - ii ; c - i
"....... and this keeper
Made him one of the things that were"
game keeper
To swing and have _______ leisure.
spiritless
happy
painful
endless
"He, too, flaps in the wind and rain
Alongside weasel and crow"
