NCERT Class 9 English Chapter 9 Lord Ullin’s Daughter

NCERT Solutions for Class 9 English Literature Reader Chapter 9 Lord Ullin’s Daughter

Textbook Questions Solved

Question 1.
Now, listen to the poem again. As you listen this time, read the poem aloud, along with the recording. Try to copy the rhythm of the recording.
Answer
Meant for class level. The rhythm of the tape-recording will be clearly understood. It will be understood and felt through the ‘beat’ at the end of each stanza.

Question 2.
On the basis of your understanding of the poem, answer the following questions by ticking the correct choice.
(a) Lord Ullin’s daughter and her lover are trying to ______

  1. escape the wrath of her father
  2. settle in a distant land
  3. challenge the storm in the lake
  4. trying to prove their love for each other.

(b) The boatman agrees to ferry them across because ____

  1. he has fallen in love with Lord Ullin’s daughter.
  2. he wants to avenge Lord Ullin.
  3. he has lost his love.
  4. he is sorry for the childlike innocence of the lady.

(c) The mood changes in the poem. It transforms from _____

  1. happiness to fear.
  2. anxiety to grief.
  3. fear to happiness.
  4. love to pain.

(d) The shore ofLochgyle has been referred to as ‘fatal shore !’ The poetic device used here is _____

  1. metaphor.
  2. simile.
  3. transferred epithet.
  4. onomatopoeia.

Answer
(a) 1
(b) 4
(c) 2
(d) 1

Question 3.
In pairs copy and complete the summary of the poem with suitable words! expressions.
A Scottish Chieftain and his beloved were (1) _____ from her wrathful father. As they reached the shores, the (2) _____ told a boatman to (3) ____ them across Lochgyle. He asked him to do it quickly because if (4) ____ found them, they would kill him. The boatman (5) ____ to take them not for the (6) _____ that the Chieftain offered but for his (7) _____. By this time, the storm had (8) ____ and a wild wind had started blowing. The sound of (9) _____ could be heard close at hand. The lady urged the boatman (10) _____ as she did not want to face an angry father. Their boat left the (11) _____ and as it got caught in the stormy sea, Lord Ullin reached the deadly (12) _____ . His anger changed to wailing when he saw his daughter (13) ____. He asked her to return to the shore. But it was (14) ____ as the stormy sea claimed his daughter and her lover.
Answer

  1. fleeing
  2. Chieftain
  3. ferry
  4. Lord Ullin’s men
  5. promised
  6. money
  7. beloved
  8. grown loud
  9. tempest
  10. to make haste
  11. stormy land
  12. shore
  13. being surrounded by stormy water
  14. vain

Question 4.
Why does Lord Ullin’s daughter defy her father and elope with her lover ? (Stanza 1)
Answer
Lord Ullin’s daughter loves the Chieftain passionately. She wants to marry him as both love each other beyond description. But Lord Ullin doesn’t allow her to marry due to various reasons. So she has no alternative except to elope with her lover.

Question 5.
Give two characteristics of the boatman who ferries the couple across the sea.
Answer
The two characteristics of the boatman are : one, he is courageous. Second, he doesn’t care for money. Then he is a man of words. He risks everything to fulfil his words.

Question 6.
“Imagery” refers to something that can be perceived through more than one of the senses. It uses figurative language to help form mental pictures. Campbell uses vivid, diverse and powerful imagery to personify the menacing face of nature. Pick out expressions that convey the images of anger in the following stanzas:
NCERT Solutions for Class 9 English Literature Chapter 9 Lord Ullins Daughter Q9
Answer:
NCERT Solutions for Class 9 English Literature Chapter 9 Lord Ullins Daughter Q9.1

Question 7.
Read the following lines and answer the questions that follow
“His horsemen hard behind us ride ;
Should they our steps discover,
Then who will cheer my bonny bride When they have slain her lover ?”

  1. Who is ‘his’ in line 1 ? Who does ‘us’ refer to ?
  2. Explain : ‘cheer my bonny bride’. .
  3. Why would the lover be slain ?

Answer

  1. ‘His’ stands for Lord Ullin. ‘Us’ refers to Lord Ullin’s daughter and her lover Chieftain.
  2. It means ‘who will console my attractive and beautiful beloved’ (after my death).
  3. The lover would be slain because his beloved’s father, Lord Ullin, has been chasing them. He has not given his permission to his daughter to marry her lover.

Question 8.
“The water-wraith was shrieking.” Is the symbolism in this line a premonition of what happens at the end ? Give reasons for your answer. (Stanza 7)
Answer
The symbolism in this line is a forewarning of what happens at the end. The wind has raised the water into a kind of violent seastorm. This seastorm changes into a tempest. It drowns Lord Ullin’s daughter and her lover.

Question 9.
The poet uses words like ‘adown’, ‘rode’ which contain harsh consonants. Why do you think the poet has done this ? (Stanza 8)
Answer
The poet has done so to suggest the great anger of Lord Ullin and his armed men, chasing his daughter and her lover. This ‘danger’ to their lives is also suggested by the words like ‘wilder’, ‘drearer’, ‘adown’, ‘rode’ and ‘sounded’.

Question 10.
In Stanza 10, the poet says—
The boat has left a stormy land,
A stormy sea before her, …….

  1. In both these lines, the word “stormy” assumes different connotations. What are they ?
  2. The lady faces a dilemma here. What is it ? What choice does she finally make ?

Answer

  1. ‘A stormy land’ suggests that Lord Ullin’s daughter’s elopement has stirred a ‘storm’ (squall) in her family. It is on the land. Lord Ullin is after her with his armed men. ‘A stormy sea’ gives out the hint that there is a seastorm rising at present in the sea.
  2. The dilemma is that the lady has ‘storm’ on both her sides. She can’t return as there is ‘storm’ at home. She can’t go forward as the ‘seastorm’ is ready to drown her. She finally chooses to face the seastorm. She thinks it right to be killed with her lover than to live without him.

Question 11.

  1. “Lord Ullin reached that fatal shore” just as his daughter left it. (Stanza 11).
    Why is the shore called fatal ?
  2. Why does Lord Ullin’s. wrath change into wailing on seeing his daughter ?

Answer

  1. The shore is called ‘fatal’ because Lord Ullin will see his daughter being drowned by the seastorm.
  2. Lord Ullin’s anger changes into wailing on seeing his daughter. He now sees the tempest is drowning his daughter. That’s why, he calls up his daughter as his fatherly instinct is now over him. He would forgive her highland chief. He asks them to return to the shore.

Question 12.
“One lovely hand she stretch’d for aid.” Do you think Lord Ullin’s daughter wanted to reach out to her father ? (Stanza 12) If yes, why ?
Answer
I think that Lord Ullin’s daughter really wanted to reach out to her father now at this point of life and death. A daughter would always incline more towards her father than her lover at such a critical moment.

Question 13.
You are already familiar with the poetic device “alliteration”. The poet makes extensive use of the same throughout the poem. Pick out as many examples of alliteration as you can.
Example: fast – father’s; horsemen – hard.
Answer:
stormy – sea
bonny- bride
human- hand
loud – lashed
storm – shade
water – wild went
did – discover
left – lamenting
fast – father’s

Question 14.
Imagine you are one of the chiefs of the cavalry riding behind Lord Ullin. You and your men ride for three days at the end of which you reach the shore. Narrate your experience as you witnessed a father lamenting the loss of his child, in the form of a diary entry.
Answer:
20th March 20XX
10 pm.
Lord Ullin’s anger knew no bounds. He couldn’t reconcile his daughter’s elopement with the chieftain of Ulva island. He wanted to catch them and put her lover to death. We were behind him. After three days of hard riding we reached the spot. We could see a boat caught among the stormy sea and the scowling sky. There we saw Lord Ullin wailing bitterly. He was crying most pathetically urging them to come back. He even gave an assurance Jo forgive them. But it was too late and therefore, in vain. The violent and the stormy sea engulfed the boat with its occupants. Lord Ullin was crying to see his beautiful daughter lying dead on the shore. One hand was extended for help and other hand was around her lover. Never had I seen such a heart-rending and tragic sight in my life before.

Question 15.
Imagine that you are Lord Ullin. You bemoan and lament the tragic loss of your lovely daughter and curse yourself for having opposed her alliance with the chieftain. Express your feelings of pain and anguish in a letter to your friend.
Answer
Uhan Glen Scotland
10 November, 2015
My dear Lord Gulva

I am really in a great shock over the tragic loss of my lovely daughter. I feel as if one part of my body has been cut. I must have understood my dearest daughter’s heart and myself have sorted out the matter. It was really bad on my part to have put my armed men to hunt for her and her lover. I must have understood that love is a basic instinct. I understand that it can’t be repressed. For ever and for ever I shall curse myself with a feeling.

It is that I myself am the murderer of my bonny and beautiful daughter. She was drowned by the wild tempest before my eyes and I couldn’t do anything. She extended her hand to me for help. But I couldn’t save her. I remember her innocent face crying for help. She was then between life and death at that crucial moment ! And I, a helpless father, could do nothing to save her ! But it’s all over. I shall live with this stigma in my mind that I am the killer of my own daughter.
Yours sincerely
Lord Ullin

Question 16.
In pairs, argue in favour of or against the topic “Lord Ullin’s daughter was right in her decision to defy her father.” Give logical and relevant reasons, and present your point of view to the class.
Answer

Lord Ullin’s daughter was right in her decision to defy her father
(For the Motion)

Lord Ullin’s daughter was right in her decision to defy her father. We must know that love is a God-given gift. Then love is not something that is at someone’s command. It is very essential for life and its propagation. Joy, happiness, pleasure etc, are its products or its faces. These are nourished and nurtured by love. Like love is a gift of the gods, falling in love too is the gift of gods. So when Lord Ullin’s daughter fell in love with the Chieftain she was following the dictates of the gods. So she eloped with the Chieftain as per the desire of the divine powers and her spiritual urges.

Thus nothing was wrong in their eloping together as her father would have got them killed. Secondly, love is something that must not be denied at any cost. It must be allowed to blossom since it is the fountainhead of all life. Obviously, she and the Chieftain were following the divine dispensation. It was opposed by earthly forces in the form of her father. To me nothing was wrong in Lord Ullin’s daughter to defy her father. If she had been wrong, her father couldn’t have asked her in the end to return. She was in the middle of the pitiless waves of the sea which drowned her and her lover, the Chieftain.

Lord Ullin’s daughter was right in her decision to defy her father
(Against the motion)

Lord Ullin’s daughter was not right in her decision to defy her father. It is a known fact that all parents love their children to the maximum. Their parents love them very much. They can do and shall do anything for the welfare and well-being of their children. Then it is the moral duty of the children to respect their parents’ feelings and emotions. Children are and shall always be children before their parents. Before them they are immature. They don’t see the right and wrong when they are young.

They may be swayed by emotions and commit something immoral. They may fall in love with somebody not approved by their parents. In marrying the person against the desire of the parents is something that is never allowed by the parents. This involves social level, social and economic levels, sincerity, faithfulness, social prestige, equality in status, etc. Marriage is a two-sided affair and once-in-a-life opportunity. So children need to leave this decision for them to their parents.

Their parents are always concerned more about their well¬being. But Lord Ullin’s daughter did something wrong in defying her father thus ruining his social status and standing. This social prestige is as essential for life as food and water. So Lord Ullin did nothing wrong in sending his men to kill them for the honour of his family and clan. Children mustn’t be allowed to do any thing against their parents’ interests and social standing. Thus Lord Ullin’s daughter mustn’t have defied her father at all.

Short Answer Type Questions

Question 1:
Why does Lord Ullin’s daughter defy her father and elope with her lover?            (Board Term I 2012)
Answer:
Lord Ullin’s daughter defies her father and elopes with her lover as she values love for her lover more than her father. She elopes knowing well that she won’t be allowed to marry the chieftain. So, she defies her father due to love.

Question 2:
What did Lord Ullin see on reaching the shore? How did he react to the situation?  (Board Term I 2012)
Answer:
When Lord Ullin reached the shore, he saw to his horror that his daughter and the Chieftain were completely surrounded by dangerous sea storm.It was going to drown them. He reacted in asking his daughter to return as he would forgive her and her lover. He also started weeping.

Question 3:
Why does Lord Ullin’s wrath change into wailing?                                                 (Board Term I 2012)
Answer:
Lord Ullin’s wrath changed into wailing as he saw his daughter was going to be drowned by the dangerous sea storm. He then was not Lord Ullin but a father. He therefore, asked her to return.

Question 4:
Who is the Chieftain and what does he say to the boatman?
Answer:
The chieftain is the chief of a clan in Ulva’s isle. He is bound for the Highlands. He asks the boatman to row him and his beloved across the Lochigyle as his beloved is Lord Ullin’s daughter arid Lord Ullin’s men are after them to kill.

Question 5:
What does the Chieftain say to the boatman about Lord Ullin?
Answer:
The Chieftain says to the boatman that Lord Ullin, his beloved’s father, is after his life and that of his beloved. They have fled together for three days. If he finds them in the valley, he will kill him. So, they must cross Lochgyle at once.

Question 6:
How did the boatman react after hearing the Chieftain?
Answer:
The Highland boatman heard the Chieftain. Then he told him that he would take them across without any delay. He offered to do so not for any money but for his attractive lady. He did so even though the waves were getting very high.

Question 7:
How did the weather become so dangerous?
Answer:
Very soon the storm grew very loud. The sea water rose high menacingly. It assumed a ghost-like form and shrieked. All the faces of those who spoke grew dark in the dirty look of the sky. Everything looked dangerous.

Question 8:
What amazing thing happened then?
Answer:
The boatman promised the Chieftain to ferry them without any delay. But the storm became dangerous- Then …, the stamping feet of Lord Ullin’s horsemen could be heard coming nearer and nearer them.

Question 9:
How did Lord Ullin react seeing his daughter in the grip of death? .
Answer: Lord Ullin saw that his beloved daughter was drowning. He cried to her in grief to come back across the stormy water. He told her that he would forgive her and her lover, the Chieftain.

Question 10:
Describe how the Chieftain and his beloved died.
Answer: Very soon the loud waves of the stormy sea pounded the seashore.No aid was possible. The wild stormy water went over Lord Ullin’s daughter and the Chieftain. They drowned instantly.

Long Answer Type Questions

Question 1:
How do the two lovers meet their end in ‘Lord Ullin’s Daughter’? Give the account in 150 words.
(Board Term I 2012)
Answer:
The manner in which the two lovers meet their end in this poem is really very sad and tragic. They, decided to elope because Lord Ullin was against them. He sent his men to catch and kill them.The boatman rowed them over the ferry. But the waves were strong and fierce due to the tempest,The water was rising high to the skies. Lord Ullin had reached the shore. He was crying as the seastorm was going to drown them. He called his daughter back because his fatherly instinct lay heavy on him. He wanted his daughter to come back. But the sea waves soon overpowered them and drowned them. Lord Ullin kept weeping as there was nothing he could do to save them. The scene was really heart-moving.

Question 2:
Imagine you are Lord Ullin. Your rigidity and narrow-mindedness cost you your daughter’s life. You curse yourself for having opposed her alliance with the Chieftain. Narrate your experience as a fattier lamenting the loss of your child in the form of a diary entry.                                         (Board Term I 2012)
Answer:
Wednesday, 20th August, 20xx
Dear Diary,
I lament the day when my beloved daughter drowned with her lover the Chieftain of Ulva. I curse my rigidity and narrow-mindedness which cost me my daughter’s life. Love is natural and now I realize she did no wrong in falling in love with the Chieftain. But she should have thought about our tribe’s honour. She should not have eloped with the Chieftain. She should have taken us all in confidence and we would found out some way before the tragic end of my daughter. I curse myself that I opposed her alliance with the Chieftain out of anger and hard-heartedness. My heart comes out and this is not the grief of the chief of our tribe but that of a father. All fathers know how dear their children are to, them but it is all over now. I regret having put my soldiers behind her and the Chieftain. Instead, I should have valued the changing times and the changing values of our tribe. But now nothing can be done. We must think over such issues with an open heart and not deal with them with rigidity.
Lord Ullin.

Question 3:
Answer the following in about 150 words. Imagine you are one of the chiefs of Lord Ullin’s cavalry. Narrate your experience, as you witnessed a father lamenting the loss of his child, in your diary.                           (Board Term I 2012)
Answer:
20th April, 20xx
Dear Diary,
I witnessed a terrible sight today. Actually, we had been given orders by Lord Ullin to catch hold of chief of Ulva who had eloped with his daughter.We followed both of them. At last we reached the seashore after three days. We faced lots of problems on the way. To our horror we found that there was a wild seastorm.The water was reaching the skies. Very soon it was a different scene as the chieftain, Lord Ullin’s daughter and the boatman were drowned. Then I saw Lord Ullin wailing bitterly over the drowning of his beloved daughter.He Was raising his hands upwards towards the sty He was crying most piteously. Now Lord Ullin was not Lord Ullin but a helpless father seeing his own daughter drowning.The storm was violent and unabated. The scene was Very fearful. Seeing Lord Ullin lamenting over there, was the most piteous sight.I felt choked within as I could no longer see him wailing so piteously.

Question 4:
You are Jenny, one of the best friends of Lord Ullin’s daughter. Her death at sea has shocked and disturbed you.You sympathize with the lovers and are Very sad.Express your feelings to another friend of yours who recently came to know about this tragic incident                                               (Board Term I 2012)
Answer:
18th November, 20xx
My dear Pearl,
I hope you are well, perhaps you know that Lord Ullin’s daughter drowned with her lover, the Chieftain while crossing the Lochgyle in the ferry.It was really tragic that they drowned with the boatman in the terrible sea storm. Actually, Lord Ullin had sent his men after them with the orders for killing the lovers when they found them.Lord Ullin himself had been chasing them in his great anger. I feel great sympathy for the daughter. She had fallen in love with the Chieftain and I find it no crime. I am on the side of the lovers as love is divine and natural. This is really tragic that they had to die such a tragic death. They had not seen life as such. How cruel it was that they had to die in their youth? I am feeling greatly shocked and you may also be feeling the same. But we can do nothing about luck or destiny. However, this tragic incident can’t be forgotten.
Yours sincerely,
Jenny.

Question 5:
The chief of another tribe friendly to Lord Ulli’s, writes a letter to Lord Ullin about how his daughter died;
Lord Ullin replies to this letter. Write this letter on his behalf.                                                (V. Imp.)
Answer:
Lord Ullin’s clan/tribe Scottish Moor Scotland
20th August, 20xx
My dear Lord Blen,
Thank you for your letter sympathizing with me over the irreparable loss of my only daughter. I feel that I am responsible for her death at a personal level. But I couldn’t ignore my tribal or social responsibilities. I couldn’t allow her to marry the Chieftain of Ulva and so I issued orders to catch them. But the tragedy occurred.
As the head of the clan, I followed the couple when they eloped. My men had orders to kill them wherever they were found. Me and my men found my daughter and her lover crossing the deadly Lochgyle seashore,They had not gone too far and could be saved if they had returned.The sea had already assumed demoniac shapes.The storm had become intense and deadly with water waves assuming ghost-like shapes.The sky was scowling. Seeing their death as imminent, my fatherly heart melted and I called out to them to return. I told them that I would forgive them if they returned safe and sound. But the couple didn’t heed my saying so and instead went ahead into the deadly sea. I saw them being enveloped in the stormy waves and soon they were drowned. I can’t forget the scene which claimed my daughter’s life. I shall regret it ever.
Yours sincerely,
Lord Ullin

Question 6:
Who are the lovers? Why are they trying to escape and what happens to them in the end?
Answer:
The lovers are the Chief of Ulva’s Island and Lord Ullin’s lovely daughter. Their tribes are enemies to each other.
So Lord Ullin has been pursuing the Chief of Ulva, his daughter’s lover. They are trying to escape from Lord Ullin’s men. They have orders to catch them and kill them. That’s why, the Chief of Ulva and his beloved ask the boatman for a favour.It is to ferry them across the stormy water without any more delay.The weather is really dark and stormy and looks menacing, but they also fear for their lives.While crossing the sea in the ferry, they drown in that bad weather

Question 7:
What is a ballad? How is ‘Lord Ullin’s Daughter’ a ballad?
Answer:
A ballad is a long narrative poem. It tells a story having romance, suspense etc. It is musical also. It can be sung with a musical instrument. It often deals with heroic deeds. ‘Lord Ullin’s Daughter’ has all these qualities. It has romance, suspense, heroic deeds etc. The lyrical quality is due to its ab ab rhyme scheme. Then there is repetition of sounds. It is ‘b’ in bonny bride, ‘r’ in ‘dark and stormy weather’, etc. This makes it musical. This poem is, thus, a tale of love and adventure, as all ballads are, so it is a ballad.

Question 8:
What message does ‘Lord Ullin’s Daughter’ convey to the readers?                                      (Value Based Question)
Answer:
The poem ‘Lord Ullin’s Daughter’ is a tragic story of two lovers who lost their lives for the sake of their love. It was due to the false ego and stubbornness of Lord Ullin which culminated in the drowning of the couple in the sea. This poem conveys the message that thoughtless and rash decisions can lead to disastrous results.
Sometimes, ego of the parents leads to catastrophic results. Dictatorial parents do not try to understand the feelings of their young children. It gives rise to a conflict resulting from the clash of the rebellious nature of youth and the authority of parents. Vision and foresight can help prevent family breakups.

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