Here are multiple-choice questions (MCQs) with answers based on P.B. Shelley's To a Skylark:MCQs on To a Skylark1. What does the skylark symbolize in the poem? a) Physical beauty b) Pure joy and spiritual transcendence c) Earthly pleasures d) Intellectual pursuitsAnswer: b) Pure joy and spiritual transcendence2. What type of poem is To a Skylark? a) Elegy b) Ode c) Ballad d) SonnetAnswer: b)...

The poet, Shelley idealizes the bird skylark as a spirit of joy. After this, the poet seeks the inspiration from it in order to sing enhantingly to the delight of humanity. The poet makes a fervent appeal to the skylark to provide him with the spontaneous joy that it possesses and expressed in its song. The poet feels that this divine spirit must know more about the mysteries of life...

These phrases are used by Shelley in his famous lyric poem, "To A Skylark", published in 1820.          "Chorus hymeneal" is a type of song which is sung in marriage ceremony in chorus by the young girls and boys. 'Hymeneal'is an adjective formed from Hymen, the God of Marriage in classical mythology. Marriage song is usually known as Epithalamiums.  ...

"To A Skylark" is one of the most splendid and passionate lyrics by Percy Bysshe Shelley, which was published in 1820.        Imagery or the use of images is one of the most significant parts of lyrical poem. Imagery is the compact collection of images. An image is generally a mental picture or speaking picture. According to Cecil Day Lewis,"An image is a picture,...

This line is quoted from Shelley's one of the greatest lyric poems, "To A Skylark"(1820).              Here 'blithe' suggests joyful or full of happiness and 'spirit' indicates without any bodily existence. In this poem, the phrase "blithe spirit" is used by Shelley to address the divine spirit, skylark.             ...

This phrase is used in Shelley's poem, "To A Skylark", published in 1820. Shelley uses this phrase to suggest the skylark, who belongs to the skyhight and who is an inhabitant of the imaginary world made by the poet himself.           Actually the poet, Shelley was a revolutionary poet. He always hated this mundane materialistic world and wanted to arrive...

The secret of the melodious madness of the skylark is that the skylark, is never exposed to the worldly sufferings, sorrow, pain and worries to which human life is subjected. Human beings are extremely absorbed in the activities pertaining to the 'past' and apprehensions of the 'future' and so they can never be in 'present'  in which skylark seems to dwell.&nbs...

P.B. Shelley is a romantic revolutionary poet. He always wants to escape from this sorrowful mundane world and arrive in a world of peace and rest. Here, in the poem, "To A Skylark" the poet uses the name of skylark as the inhabitant of the imaginary world of happiness.         He says that the skylark is a 'blithe spirit' and "an unbodied joy" who pours his...

Shelley in "To a Skylark" compares the skylark singing sweetly in the sky to a poet who is completely absorbed in his lofty idealism, singing prophetic songs to inspire people to high ideals.The skylark resembles an unknown poet living in the realm of his majestic idealism, creating a stir in the sleeping conscience of mankin...

Shelley feels that the skylark is above mundane human issues and has no idea of human love and its whims. Interestingly, the poet accepts that love has the capacity to fulfil and generate contentment but, paradoxically, at the same time, leaves one with a sense of lack of fruition,a vacuity which words cannot expres...

Shelley's poems are always resplendent with brilliant imagery and in the poem, one can find Shelley at his best. The upward flight of the bird is compared to cloud of fire , to the moon, to a poet, a lovelorn maiden, a glowworm and a leaf fringed rose. The melodious song is compared to the rays of the moon which floods the earth and the sky, raindrops falling from the sky and the scattering...

The central theme of the poem is undoubtedly the vast unbridgeable chasm that exists between the world of the bird and the world of man. The song of the bird is a reminder to the poet about the various imperfections present in man. He envies the unbridled joy of the skylark and realizes that it would never be possible for man to be perfectly happy in life.&nbs...

The poem is divided into three separate segments: the first part which consists of the first six stanzas present the upward flight of the skylark. The second part, consisting of the next six stanzas tries to find a suitable likeness for the bird and his song and understandably, is unsuccessful. The third and final part comprising of the last nine stanzas of the poem is a prayer to...

The  line which is a part of Shelley's poem 'To a skylark' expresses a paradoxical statement which echoes the poet's despondent mood.Human existence is very paradoxical in  that it presents both the vitality of joy and despondency of sadness at one go and hence it is the endeavor of each and every artist to capture such meditative pleasures, troubled joys. In this aspiring...