The Echoing Green Poem

In stanza 3 William Blake uses a simile to compare two things. What is he comparing?

• Children to the sun

• Children to birds

• Children to a field

• Children to sports

In stanza 1 it reads "The sun does arise, and make happy the skies." What does this line mean?

• The sun is setting and it is becoming night time

• The sun is rising and it is becoming night time

• The sun is rising and it is becoming morning time

• The moon is coming out and it is becoming night time

When we all, girls and boys,

In our youth time were seen,

on the Echoing Green. Who was speaking in line 17-20?

• A child

• old man John

• an old woman

• a mother

In lines 25-28 what does this tell you about the children? What does this tell you about the children?

• The children are in their mother's laps.

• The children are in a nest

• The birds are in their mother's laps

• The children are sleeping in a nest

Throughout the poem it uses the sun to explain what?

• Time changing throughout the years.

• Time changing throughout the day.

• The color of the sky.

What arises at the beginning of the poem and descends at the end?

• the sun

• a bell

• a bird

• an oak tree

What is the setting of this poem?

• the nest of a bird

• a bush where birds live

• the echoing Green

• the home of Old John

Whom does “our” refer to in line 15?

• the old folks sitting together under an oak tree

• the people who ring merry bells to welcome the spring

• the boys and girls playing on the echoing Green

• the mothers around whose laps many sisters and brothers gather

What can you infer from this stanza about Old John?

• Old John spends most of his time worrying.

• Old John used to play on the echoing Green.

• Old John likes being an old man more than he liked being a boy.

• Old John does not get along well with the other old folk.

Who or what are “the little ones” in line 21?

• young birds

• boys and girls

• mothers

• old folk