1. Identity a simile from the above lines.

Question

Read the lines from the poem ‘ The Village Blacksmith’ and answer the questions that follow:

Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow; You can hear him swing his heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell’

When the evening sun is low. And children coming home from school Look in at the open door They love to see the flaming forge, And hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing – floor He goes on Sunday to the church And sits among his boys. He hears the parson pray and preaches He hears his daughter’s voice Singing in the village choir, 

And it makes his heart rejoice

1. Identity a simile from the above lines. 

2. What does the blacksmith do on Sundays? 

3. What does the blacksmith remember when he hears his daughter singing in the village choir? 

4. What is the blacksmith’s swinging his sledge compared to?

Answer 1

1. The burning sparks that fly like chaff from a threshing floor. 

2. He goes to church and sits among his sons listening to the parson’s prayer. 

3. He is reminded of his wife. 

4. To a sexton ringing his village bell.