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Answer any four of the following questions in 30–40 words each:

(i) What made the author call the boys, “Two gentlemen of Verona”?
(ii) How did the woman react when she saw her face in the lake?
(iii) What does hanging of the Albatross around the Mariner’s neck signify?
(iv) What does Patol Babu’s wife mean by saying, “Counting your chickens before they are hatched”?
(v) Who does the ‘shattered visage’ in the poem, ‘Ozymandias’ belong to and why is it ‘half sunk’?

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(i) To see their willingness and their spirit to work. The two boys, Nicola and Jacopo, had brown skins, tangled hair and dark earnest eyes. The narrator was already impressed with their remarkable demeanour and wonderful ways. The narrator felt that Jacopo was lively as a squirrel while Nicola was steady and engaging. Their faces had seriousness as responsibility had dawned upon them in their childhood.  

(ii) The mirror metaphorically compares lake, which has the quality to reflect the object as a mirror does, with itself. When a woman bends over the lake and searches her real appearance in it, she is not satisfied with the reflection seen. So she shows agitation of hands and tears to show her resentment and hatred towards the mirror. Then she runs behind those liars, the candles and moonlight. 

(iii) His sin, guilt and regret. It was the thoughtless and reckless action of the Mariner that had brought them all the suffering. As a punishment, they hang the Albatross around the neck of the Ancient Mariner which would constantly remind him of his heinous act and make him feel guilty. 

(iv) It means making castles in the air. It means Patol Babu weighing his future in films even before the result is out. At first, he could not believe that a man, who was fifty-two years old and a non-entity like him could get such an offer to act in a movie. Moreover, there was no reason for him to refuse the offer. 

(v) The broken face of king Ozymandias. It was fallen on the sand and half covered by the sand.

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