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The Hills
Rachel Field
Sometimes I think the hills
That loom across the harbor
Lie there like sleeping dragons,
Couched one above another,
With trees for tufts of fur
Growing all up and down
The ridges and humps of their backs,
And orange cliffs for claws
Dipped in the sea below.
Sometimes a wisp of smoke
Rises out of the hollows,
As if in their dragon sleep
They dreamed of strange old battles
What if the hills should stir
Some day and stretch themselves,
Shake off the clinging trees
And all the clustered houses?
Available Answers
- 1.
The poet compares the following to
- The hills: ________
- The cliffs: _________
- The trees: _________
- The smoke: _______
- 2.
What according to the poet could happen if the hills stirred?
- 3.
Do you think hills could stir? If not, why does the poet say so?
- 4.
Which of the following titles do you think can be appropriately given to the poem, if we want to choose an alternative one?
- Magical Hills
- I saw Sleeping Dragons
- Dragons or Hills?
Justify your choice.
- 5.
Replace these dictionary definitions by single words from the poem:
- to wait in ambush or waiting to attack :
- things grouped together:
- a thin or filmy piece :
- 6.
Make sentences with the following words and phrases.
- tufts
- harbour
- wisp of smoke
- clustered
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