NEB Question Collection | Travelling Through the Dark

Unit 7 : Travelling Through the Dark

Long Questions asked from this chapter :

1. What is the main theme of the poem ‘Travelling Through The Dark’? Explain

Short Questions asked from this chapter :

1. How does the action of the poem develop in each stanza?
2. How does the poet feel about finding the deer? Why does he hesitate before pushing the dead animal off the road?
3. Explain the meaning of the world ‘swerve’. Does the speaker ‘swerve’?
4. What do you think the narrator pushed the doe off the road Does he do full justice to both sides of the conflict? Give your opinion.
5. In the line ‘I thought hard for all of us ,’ what does the poet think about?