The bridge builder Complete question answers

A. 1. At what time of the day did the old man cross the chasm?

Ans: The old man crossed the chasm in the twilight dim of the day.

2. Why was he not afraid of the stream?

Ans: The old man wasn’t afraid of the stream as he was an experienced fellow .

3. When did he build the bridge across the chasm?

Ans: At the closing of the day when the old man safely crossed the chasm and was on the other side , he began building the bridge across it.

4. What did his fellow pilgrim tell him?

Ans: His fellow pilgrim told him that he was just wasting his strength and life limit by building a bridge even when he had crossed the chasm safely all by himself.

5. For whom did the old man say he was building the bridge?

Ans: The old man said that he was building the bridge for the youth who was following him.

6. Why was he doing so?

Ans: According to the poem , the old man felt about the youth that while travelling at twilight he might slip his feet and fall into the pit , and being concerned about the safety of the youth he was building the bridge.

7. Many of the objects and action in the poem have a figurative meaning and represent an abstract idea. what do the following things represent ? a) ‘chasm vast and deep and wide ‘ b) ‘twilight dim’ c) ‘ a bridge to span the tide’

Ans: a) Chasm vast and deep and wide represents difficulty .

b) Twilight dim represents losing strength and approaching its end.

c) A bridge to span the tide represents ease and comfort.

B. 1. a) What did the old man built?

Ans: The old man built a bridge across the chasm .

b) Why did the fellow pilgrim say the old man was wasting his strength?

Ans: The fellow pilgrim said that he was wasting his strength because he felt that , building a bridge alone would be a hard task for an old man like him.

c) Explain the significance of the line :’Your journey will end with the ending of the day’.

Ans: The line mentioned in the question tries to explain that , beside being an old man building a bridge alone would require much of physical labour and doing this for the whole day might even lead to death due to excessive strength loss.

d) What do the expressions ‘chasm ,deep and wide’ and ‘evening tide’ represent with relation to human life?

Ans: ‘Chasm , deep and wide ‘ represents difficult time and ‘evening tide’ represents old age in relation to human life.

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