Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
The buoy of the Inchcape Bell was seen
A darker speck on the ocean green;
Sir Ralph the Rover walk’d his deck,
And fix’d his eye on the darker speck.
(The Inchcape Rock: Robert Southey) (i) Contrast the weather when Sir Ralph the Rover passed the Inchcape Rock the first
time with the weather when he returned to the place. (ii) Why had the Abbot of Aberbrothok hung a bell on the Inchcape Rock? (iii) Why did Sir Ralph cut the bell from the Inchcape Rock? Describe the manner in
which it sank underwater. (iv) What did Sir Ralph say to reassure his men when it became very dark? What opinion
did one of the sailors have about their location? What did they all wish for? (v) How did the ship sink? What sound did Sir Ralph imagine he could hear in his dying
moments? What is the message of the poem?