Daybreak
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
S.A.Q. (Mark – 01)
Q. Who has composed the poem, “Daybreak”?
Answer: The poem, “Daybreak: is composed by the poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Q. What does the title word, ‘Daybreak’ mean?
Answer: The title word ‘daybreak’ means ‘dawn’.
Q. To whom does the ‘sea-wind’ speak first?
Answer: Coming out of the sea, the ‘wind’ speaks to the ‘mist’ at first.
Q. What is the source of the poem ‘Daybreak’?
Answer: The poem, ‘Daybreak’ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was taken from the main volume, “Birds of Passage: Flight the First” (1858)
Q. Who announced the breaking of the day in the poem "Daybreak"?
Answer: In the poem "Daybreak" the sea-wind announced the daybreak.
Q. What does the title "daybreak" mean?
Answer: The title "Daybreak" refers to the arrival of a new day with new energy and enthusiasm.
Q. Where did the wind come from in the poem "Daybreak"?
Answer: In the poem "Daybreak" the wind came from the sea.
Q. What is the first thing, what does the wind do in this poem?
Answer: The first thing the wind does after coming up from the sea is that it requests the mists to make room for it.
Q. What did the wind say about the sailors?
Answer: The night was over and the morning came and the wind told the mariners to go towards the passengers.
Q. In this poem, what is said to the forest by the wind?
Answer: The wind has told the forest to shout and hang banners of all their leaves.
Q. What did the wind touch in the poem “Daybreak”?
Answer: In the poem "Daybreak" the wind touched the folded wings of the 'wood-bird'.
Q. Why did the wind touch the wood-bird's wings?
Answer: The wind has touched the wings of the 'wood-bird' to announce that a new day has come with new energy and enthusiasm.
Q. What does the wind tell the bird to do?
Answer: The wind tells the bird to wake up and welcome the new day.
Q. What is 'Chanticleer'?
Answer: Here 'Chanticleer' means a domestic rooster which calls for the arrival of a day.
Q. What is ‘belfry tower’?
Answer: The Belfry Tower’, popularly known as ‘Belfry of Burges’, is a medieval bell tower in the center of Burges, Belgium. It was used as an observation post for spotting fires and other danger.
Q. What does the expression, ‘leafy banners’ mean?
Answer: The expression, ‘leafy banners’ from the poem, ‘Daybreak’, refers to the leaves that uncurls after a night’s sleep, creating the festive mood that flags and banners produce.
Q. To whom does the poet, Longfellow personify in the poem, ‘Daybreak’?
Answer: In the poem, ‘Daybreak’, Longfellow personifies the sea-wind to poetize the effect of the arrival of dawn to the things and objects of Nature.
Q. To whom does the sea-wind pay visit with a ‘sigh’?
Answer: At last, going to the churchyard and looking at the graves, the sea-wind feels very sorry for those who are already inhabitants of the world of eternal sleep and so decide that they need not be waked up from their eternal sleep at all. So it whispers to them to lie down quietly.
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