Answer When Mary went to bring the cattle home, the weather was very adverse, for example there were wild western wind, foam in the sea, mist in the air and above all a tide in the sea.

Answer In the first stanza, the sentence, ‘and call the cattle home’ has been repeated to give us the idea that Mary was frequently told to call the cattle home. In the second stanza, the words ‘o’er’ and ‘round’ have been repeated to make us visualize how the tide was coming on the ground slowly and slowly. In the fourth stanza the word ‘cruel’ has been repeated to express the destructive nature of the sea. The sentence, ‘Across the sands of Dee’ is used both in the first and last stanza to highlight the subject matter of the poem and to maintain the balance of rhythm.

Answer To describe the sea, the poet has personified it. He has used words like ‘cruel’, ‘crawling foam’, ‘hungry’ etc. to express the movement of the sea.

Answer Mary was a girl who lived beside the sea. One day her parents told her to bring the cattle home from the sands of Dee. Unfortunately, the weather was very adverse at that time. So, the sea tide came and took away Mary to the deep sea. Next day some local boatman saw something in the net. They thought it was sea weed, or salmon fish. But finally they found that it was the trees of golden hair of a maiden. thus Mary faced a tragic death being drowned in the sea. Still the boatmen hear Mary calling the cattle home across the sands of Dee.

Answer Some of us who knew how to swim could rush to the sea to help her from drowning. Besides, we could shout, ‘help help’ to gather local people and boatmen to assist us. Finally, we could have saved her from drowning.

Answer The existence of Mary still persists in the subconscious mind of the boatmen. It was he who found the dead-body of Mary. He was used to hearing Mary call the cattle home every evening. I think this is why the boatmen can still hear her call the cattle home.