Read the poem and answer Questions 26 to 30.
Oft in the stilly night
Ere slumber’s chain has bound me
Fond memory brings the light
of other days around me:
The smiles, the tears
of boyhood years.
The words of love then spoken;
The eyes that shone
How dimm’d and.gone
The cheerful hearts now broken!
Thus in the stilly night
Ere slumber’s chain has bound me.
The theme is about the poet’s _________
A. broken love affairs.
B. fee the stilly night.
C. sleepless night.
D. yearning for happier times gone
Correct Answer:
Option D – yearning for happier times gone
