Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow:
No nightingale did ever chant
More welcome notes to weary bands
Of Travellers in some shady haunt.
Among Arabian Sands;
Paraphrase: No nightingale ever sang such melodious welcome songs to the groups of tired travellers resting in shady places in the desert of Arabia.
(a) What is the poetic device used in comparing the song of the reaper and the nightingale?
(b) How does the girl’s song affect the tired travellers in the desert?
(c) What is a shady haunt?
(a) The poet uses a simile to compare the two songs.
(b) The girl’s song soothes the tired travellers with its melodious welcome notes. It affects in the way as the travellers haunting in the desert finds a shade.
(c) A shady haunt is a place in a desert where water and shady trees are found.