The Echoing Green Poem

Select the best summary for stanza one (1).

• On a spring morning, the birds sing and bells ring as people play in the village green.

• An old man named John laughs as he sits with his peers. The other elderly people laugh at the playing children, who make them think of their own childhood playtime.

• Night falls and the children grow tired. The play ends, and the green grows empty and dark.

• All of the above.

What sound is associated with the arrival of spring in the poem?

• The sound of rain.

• The merry bells ringing.

• The rustling of leaves.

• The chirping of crickets.

What signifies the end of the day in the poem?

• The sun does descend.

• The stars appear.

• The moon rises.

• The wind blows.

What activity is mentioned as happening on the echoing Green?

• A market fair.

• Sports and play.

• A concert.

• A wedding.

What do the “Many sisters and brothers” have in common with “birds in their nest”?

• The children and the birds can no longer be merry.

• The children are in the shelter of their mothers’ laps like birds resting in the nest.

• Their green is darkening.

• The children are no longer playing sports.

What is the tone of the poem?

• Positive

• Negative

• Neutral

• Disgust

In line 17-20

"Such, such were joy,

When we all, girls and boys,

In our youth time were seen,

on the Echoing Green."

What does the narrator mean in these lines?

• The old folks play on the Echoing Green as old people

• The old folk sit under an oak tree

• The old folk played on the Echoing Green in their youth

• The old folk laugh at the children playing

In stanza 3 it states: "The sun does descend, And our sports have an end: Round the laps of their mothers, Many sisters and brothers, Are ready for rest: An sport no more seen On the Echoing Green." What does this stanza tell us?

• The children are waking up and starting to play sports

• The sun is coming up and the birds are singing.

• The old folk are laughing at the children play.

• The sun is setting and the children are getting ready for rest.

In lines 29-30 it states: "And sports no more seen, On the darkening Green." What does this tell you?

• The kids are playing sports on the Echoing Green

• The birds are singing on the echoing Green

• The old folks are no longer playing sports in the echoing green

• The kids are no longer playing sports in the echoing green.

What is the theme of the Echoing Green?

• The kids are awake in the morning and asleep at night

• The kids are like birds because they wake up in the morning and sleep at night

• That cycles are a part of life; things change and people grow older.

• The sun sets every day.