On Wings of Sleep

Question Bank with Answers

I. Answer in a complete sentence:

1) What does the speaker mean by wings of sleep?
Answer: The speaker is referring to his dreams. Sleep gives him wings
to dream and go anywhere he wants to.
2) How does the poet describe the sun as it rises higher?
Answer: When the sun rises higher it is described as red and angry.
3) Why are the rivers ‘silver and gold’ in poem ‘On Wings of Sleep’?
Answer: The silver gold reflection in the river is the effect of the rising
sun.
4) What will singe the speaker’s wings?
Answer: The rising sun will singe the speaker’s wings. This means he
has to wake up and cannot dream anymore.

II, Answer the following.

Q1. Why does the poet feel it is time to return home? Does he like coming
back to reality?
A1. The poet feels it is time to return home as the sun has risen and he has to
wake up to reality. His real world is a creaky bed and a dusty window
pane. The poet does not like to return home. He longs to get back to his
world of dreams.