Sailing Wind Terms
Read the following lines and answer the question given below:?
When I was young?……………….Ah, woeful When!
Ah! For the change ‘twixt now and Then!
This breathing house not built with hands,
This body that does me grievous wrong,
O’er aery cliffs and glittering sands,
How lightly then it flashed along:
Like those tint skiffs, unknown of yore,
On winding lakes and rivers wide,
That ask no aid of sail or oar,
That fear no spite of wind or tide
Nought cared this body for wind or weather
When Youth and I live in’t together
i.Explain the following terms
a.now and then
b.breathing house
c.aery cliffs
d.glittering sands
e.winding lakes
ii.What is it that the poet wants to say in these lines?
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