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Reading Practice 2: Advanced

This poem expresses feelings of homesickness and longing to return to one's homeland in the west. The speaker is reminded of his home every time he feels the west wind, which brings memories of the birds, flowers, green grass, and family he left behind. The wind itself seems to call out to the speaker, asking him to return home where he will find rest, comfort, and a sense of belonging once more.

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Reading Practice 2: Advanced

This poem expresses feelings of homesickness and longing to return to one's homeland in the west. The speaker is reminded of his home every time he feels the west wind, which brings memories of the birds, flowers, green grass, and family he left behind. The wind itself seems to call out to the speaker, asking him to return home where he will find rest, comfort, and a sense of belonging once more.

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ADVANCED

Reading Practice 2

The west wind


It’s a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds’ cries;
I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes.
For it comes from the west land, the old brown hills.
And April’s in the west wind, and daffodils.

It’s a fine land, the west land, for hearts as tired as mine,
Apple orchards blossom there, and the air’s like wine.
There is cool green grass there, where men may lie at rest,
And the thrushes are in song there, fluting from the nest.

“Will ye not come home brother? ye have been long away,


It’s April, and blossom time, and white is the may;
And bright is the sun brother, and warm is the rain,--
Will ye not come home, brother, home to us again?

“Larks are singing in the west, brother, above the green wheat,
So will ye not come home, brother, and rest your tired feet?
I’ve a balm for bruised hearts, brother, sleep for aching eyes,”
Says the warm wind, the west wind, full of birds’ cries.

It’s the white road westwards is the road I must tread


To the green grass, the cool grass, and rest for heart and head,
To the violets, and the warm hearts, and the thrushes’ song,
In the fine land, the west land, the land where I belong.
(selected verses) John Masefield

A. Tick the correct answer.


1.What is the rhyming scheme of this poem?
a. abab _____
b. aabba _____
c. aab _____
d. aabb _____
2.What is a main theme of this poem?
a. the changing seasons _____
b. homesickness _____
c. the beauty of nature _____
d. old age _____
3.What is the mood of this poem?
a. melancholy _____
b. joy _____
c. worry _____
d. anger _____
4.What do we learn from the phrase ‘full of birds cries’?
a. The poet is reminded of the birds in his homeland. _____
b. The poet can hear the birds singing. _____
c. The birds are feeling sad and they are crying. _____
d. When the west wind blows, birds come flying from the west. _____
5.Which line tells us that the poet hasn’t gone home for a long time?
a. I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes _____
b. Will ye not come home brother? ye have been long away. _____
c. Will ye not come home, brother, home to us again. _____
d. In the fine land, the west land, the land where I belong. _____

B. Why does the poet have tears in his eyes every time the west wind blows?

C. Name two types of birds mentioned in the poem.

D. Name two types of flowers mentioned in the poem.

E. “Will ye not come home, brother, home to us again?” Who says this line?
F. Quote two lines from the poem in which the wind seems to be offering comfort to the
speaker.

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