Short Questions
SAQ : 5 Marks
1️⃣ Why does the poet ask the stranger to look at the island?
👉The opening stanza of Auden’s poem ‘Look, Stranger’ presents a real little exposition in which the poet introduces us to the scene itself. Auden here invites us to look at the natural scene at a particular point of time and be conscious of the glory and splendour of that particular sight. Auden asks the stranger to look at the beautiful scene of that island. The stranger is advised to stand firmly and silently there so that the swaying sound of the sea may pass into his ears like a meandering river.
2️⃣ What does Auden say about ‘the full view’ in the last stanza of ‘Look Stranger’?
👉In the last stanza of ‘Look, Stranger’, the poet presents a different perspective in which we obtain a mere open-ended overall view. The poet presents an almost cinematographic description of the ships in the distant horizon moving out in various directions on different missions. This ‘full view’, the poet hopes, may enter the very consciousness of the onlooker, and moves into the individual memory very much like the clouds that float over the clearly reflecting mirror of the harbour and wander all through the summer through the water of the sea.
