POETRY 2 - QUALITY OF MERCY - 2MARKS

1. Mercy is compared to gentle rain from heaven. How is this comparison apt?

Ans.: As the gentle rain falls on the earth, so also when mercy is shown it blesses the giver and the taker and given comfort.

2. The speaker compares the power of the king with the power of mercy, saying that mercy is the mightiest of the mightiest. How does she justify this?

Ans.: The king who has sceptre in his hand evokes a feeling of fear in the minds of others but the king who has a feeling of mercy in his heart possesses divine quality of mercy.

3. The poem „Quality of Mercy‟ has fourteen lines. But it is not a sonnet. Justify the statement.

Ans.: This poem consists of fourteen lines but it is not a sonnet as there is no rhyme, scheme in the poem. In other words there isn’t three quatrains and a couplet.