NCERT Solutions 09th English Chapter 9 Lord Ullin’s Daughter

1.On the basis of your understanding of the poem, answer the following questions by ticking the correct choice.
(a) Lord Ullin’s daughter and her lover are trying to______
(i) escape the wrath of her father.
(ii) settle in a distant land.
(iii) challenge the storm in the lake.
(iv) trying to prove their love for each other.
Answer:
(i) escape the wrath of her father.
(b) The boatman agrees to ferry them across because _________
(i) he has fallen in love with Lord Ullin’s daughter.
(ii) he wants to avenge Lord Ullin.
(iii) he has lost his love.
(iv) he is sorry for the childlike innocence of the lady.
Answer:
(iv) he is sorry for the childlike innocence of the lady.
(c) The mood changes in the poem. It transforms from ________
(i) happiness to fear.
(ii)anxiety to grief.
(iii) fear to happiness.
(iv) love to pain.
Answer:
(ii)anxiety to grief.
(d) The shore of Lochgyle has been referred to as ‘fatal shore !’ The poetic device used here is_______
(i) metaphor.
(ii) simile.
(iii) transferred epithet.
(iv) onomatopoeia
Answer:
(i) metaphor.
2.

In pairs copy and complete the summary of the poem with suitable words/ expressions. A Scottish Chieftain and his beloved were (a) ______ from her wrathful father. As they reached the shores, the (b) _____ told a boatman to (c) ________ them across Lochgyle. He asked him to do it quickly because if (d) _______ found them, they would kill him. The boatman (e) _______ to take them not for the (f) ______ that the Chieftain offered but for his (g) ______. By this time, the storm had (h) ______ and a wild wind had started blowing. The sound of (i) ______ could be heard close at hand. The lady urged the batman (j) ______ as she did not want to face an angry father. Their boat left the (k) ______ and as it got caught in the stormy sea, Lord Ullin reached the deadly (l) _____ His anger changed to wailing when he saw his daughter (m) _______. He asked her to return to the shore. But it was (n) ______ as the stormy sea claimed his daughter and her lover.

Answer:
(a) fleeing/escaping
(b) Chieftain
(c) row
(d) Lord Ullin’s men
(e) promised
(f) silver pound
(g) winsome bride
(h) grown furious
(i) stamping
(j) to make haste
(k) stormy land
(l) shore
(m) caught in the storm
(n) in vain/too late
3.Why does Lord Ullin’s daughter defy her father and elope with her lover?
Answer:
Lord Ullifr’s beautiful daughter loves the Scottish chieftain passionately. Her father Lord Ullin is against their relationship and marriage. He is not favourably disposed to the Scottish chieftain. So Ullin’s daughter defies her father and decides to elope with her lover. She does so to escape the wrath of her angry father.
4.Give two characteristics of the boatman who ferries the couple across the sea.
Answer:
The greatest characteristic of the boatman is his sincerity and human sympathy. He decides to row the boat in the stormy and the furious sea not for the bright silver pound that the chieftain promised but for his “winsome bride”. The other characteristic that immediately strikes us is his courage. He is a man of words who doesn’t care for the stormy sea or the scowling sky. He risks his own life to help the lovers in need.
5.Read the following lines and answer the questions that follow:
“His horsemen hard behind us ride; Should they our steps discover,
Then who will cheer my bonny bride When they have slain her lover?”
(a) Who is ‘his’ in line 1? Who does ‘us’ refer to?
(b) Explain: ‘cheer my bonny bride’.
(c) Why would the lover be slain?
Answer:
(a) ‘His’ stands for Lord Ullin. ‘Us’ refers to Lord Ullin’s daughter and her lover.
(b) It means that if the Scottish chieftain is killed, there will be no one to look after and make his beautiful bride happy.
(c) If the lover is caught, it is sure that he will be killed by Lord Ullin and his armed men. Lord Ullin doesn’t want his daughter to marry her lover.
6.“The water-wraith was shrieking”. Is the symbolism in this line a premonition of what happens at the end ? Give reasons for your answer. (Stanza 3)
Answer:
Certainly the symbolism in this line is a premonition of what is about to happen at the end. The stormy sea is getting furious and the rising waves have assumed the shape of ghosts threatening to swallow the lovers in the tempest. Certainly, Lord Ullin’s beautiful daughter and her lover are going to meet their watery graves in the sea at the end.
7.The poet uses words like ‘adown’, ‘rode’ which contain harsh consonants. Why do you think the poet has done this? (Stanza 4)
Answer:
The poet uses such hard consonants like ‘adown’ ‘rode’, etc. to heighten the effect of the great anger of Lord Ullin and his men, who are hotly chasing the two lovers. Similarly other hard consonants express the anger of the sea, sky and waves, ‘storm grew loud’, ‘scowl of heaven’ and ‘water wraith’, etc.
8.You are already familiar with the poetic device “alliteration”. The poet makes extensive use of the same throughout the poem. Pick out as many examples of alliteration as you can.
Example: fast – father’s; horsemen – hard.
Answer:
stormy – sea
bonny- bride
human- hand
loud – lashed
storm – shade
water – wild went
did – discover
left – lamenting
fast – father’s
9.What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
Answer:
The rhyme scheme of the poem is ab, ab. In the last stanza, it is: ab, cb