The only other sound’s the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake.

Question

Read the following lines from the poem and answer the questions that follow.

The only other sound’s the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake.

(i) Was the place noisy? 

(ii) Which were the sounds he could hear?

Answer 1

(i) No 

(ii) The only sounds that the poet could hear were of wind and fall of snowflakes.