Passage 1<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Question 1.<\/span><\/strong> If thou must love me, let it be for nought Identify the poetic form used by Browning to frame this work and list some of its characteristics as visible here.<\/strong><\/p>\n Answer:<\/span><\/strong> Question 2.<\/span><\/strong> If thou must love me, let it be for nought What according to Browning are the things that a woman should not be loved for?<\/strong><\/p>\n Answer:<\/span><\/strong> Question 3.<\/span><\/strong> If thou must love me, let it be for nought What does ‘love’s sake only’ mean? What picture of love does the poet paint in this poem?<\/strong><\/p>\n Answer:<\/span><\/strong> Passage 2<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Question 1.<\/span><\/strong> A sense of pleasant ease on such a day’- List the old English words used in the stanza. Whom are they used for?<\/strong><\/p>\n Answer:<\/span><\/strong> Question 2.<\/span><\/strong> A sense of pleasant ease on such a day’- What does the poet mean by ‘Thine own dear pity’s wiping my cheeks dry,-‘<\/strong><\/p>\n Answer:<\/span><\/strong> Question 3.<\/span><\/strong> A sense of pleasant ease on such a day’- What reason does the poet give to opposing love based on outward aspects?<\/strong><\/p>\n Answer:<\/span><\/strong> Passage 3<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Question 1.<\/span><\/strong> A creature might forget to weep, who bore What is the connection made by the poet between weeping and love?<\/strong><\/p>\n Answer:<\/span><\/strong> Question 2.<\/span><\/strong> A creature might forget to weep, who bore
\nRead the extract and answer the questions that follow:<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nExcept for love’s sake only. Do not say
\nI love her for her smile … her look … her way
\nOf speaking gently, … for a trick of thought
\nThat falls in well with mine, and certes brought<\/p>\n
\nBrowning has written the poem in the form of a sonnet. The poem has two quatrains (four line stanzas) and one sestet (six line stanza). It is written in iambic pentameter. Its main theme is ‘love’. Browning elevates love by praising it for the purity of the feeling that it is.<\/p>\n
\nRead the extract and answer the questions that follow:<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nExcept for love’s sake only. Do not say
\nI love her for her smile … her look … her way
\nOf speaking gently, … for a trick of thought
\nThat falls in well with mine, and certes brought<\/p>\n
\nAccording to Browning, a woman should not merely be loved for her smile, her looks, her way of speaking or her way of thinking.<\/p>\n
\nRead the extract and answer the questions that follow:<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nExcept for love’s sake only. Do not say
\nI love her for her smile … her look … her way
\nOf speaking gently, … for a trick of thought
\nThat falls in well with mine, and certes brought<\/p>\n
\nThe phrase ‘love’s sake only’ means loving a person only to nurture the feeling of love. It means giving love to someone with the aim of spreading the feeling rather than gaining something from the relation. This kind of love is unconditional and the qualities or limitations of the people involved are not measured.<\/p>\n
\nRead the extract and answer the questions that follow:<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nFor these things in themselves, Belov\u00e8d, may
\nBe changed, or change for thee,-and love, so wrought,
\nMay be unwrought so. Neither love me for
\nThine own dear pity’s wiping my cheeks dry,-<\/p>\n
\nThe poet uses the words ‘thou’, ‘thee’ and ‘thine’ in the stanza to refer to her lover and future husband Robert Browning.<\/p>\n
\nRead the extract and answer the questions that follow:<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nFor these things in themselves, Belov\u00e8d, may
\nBe changed, or change for thee,-and love, so wrought,
\nMay be unwrought so. Neither love me for
\nThine own dear pity’s wiping my cheeks dry,-<\/p>\n
\nThe mentioned line means love should not be based on pity. A man should not love a woman because he feels sorry for her pitiable state and wishes to wipe her tears or rid her of her woes. This kind of feeling does not draw the true character of love.<\/p>\n
\nRead the extract and answer the questions that follow:<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nFor these things in themselves, Belov\u00e8d, may
\nBe changed, or change for thee,-and love, so wrought,
\nMay be unwrought so. Neither love me for
\nThine own dear pity’s wiping my cheeks dry,-<\/p>\n
\nThe poet objects to love based on outward appearance as she believes that physical beauty is transient and may change as time goes by. When these things change, the love which once was so desired becomes undesired or unwanted.<\/p>\n
\nRead the extract and answer the questions that follow:<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nThy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
\nBut love me for love’s sake, that evermore
\nThou may’st love on, through love’s eternity.<\/p>\n
\nThe poet says love which feeds on sympathy or pity will not last for long because a person will not need sympathy forever. When the person who once wept overcomes his or her grief, he\/she will no longer need the love of the person giving him\/her comfort.<\/p>\n
\nRead the extract and answer the questions that follow:<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nThy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
\nBut love me for love’s sake, that evermore
\nThou may’st love on, through love’s eternity.<\/p>\n