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प्रश्न
How does the poet tossed back from ecstasy into despair?
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उत्तर
While Keats praises the bird's song, the nightingale flies further away from him. The poet sighs, “Forlorn!” As the sound is distanced, the spell breaks and Keats awakens to the reality. He realises that while dreaming he had travelled far from reality. He is thrown back to the physical world again and he grieves that his imagination is not to become reality. Keats laments at the loss and wonders whether he was dreaming or he envisioned it all. He bemoans for he is bereft of his art and the beauty.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Read the following extract and answer the questions given below:
If you do not get lowered in your own eyes
While you raise yourself in those of others,
If you do not give in to gossips and lies
Rather heed them not, saying, 'who bothers?'
You may be the person I am looking for.
If you crave not for praise when you win
And look not for sympathy while you lose,
If cheers let not your head toss or spin
And after a set-back, you offer no excuse,
You may be the person I and looking for.
(1) What should be your reaction towards gossips and lies?
(2) Who are your role models? Why?
(3) Give the rhyming pairs of words from the first stanza.
(4) Which line is repeated in this extract and what is its effect?
Read the following extract carefully and complete the activities given below :
A1 Complete the following :
(i) Books were found on the _____________ and ____________.
(ii) The tales are described as ______________ and __________.
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Have you forgotten? Don't you know?
We'll say it very loud and slow:
THEY ... USED ... TO ... READ! They'd READ and READ,
AND READ and READ, and then proceed
To READ some more. Great Scott! Gadzooks!
One-half of their lives was reading books!
The nursery shelves held books galore!
Books cluttered up the nursery floor!
And in the bedroom, by the bed,
More books were waiting to be read!
Such wondrous, fine, fantastic tales
Of dragons, gypsies, queens, and whales
And treasure isles, and distant shores
Where smugglers rowed with muffled oars,
And pirates wearing purple pants,
And sailing ships and elephants,
And cannibals crouching 'round the pot,
Stirring away at something hot.
(It smells so good, what can it be?
Good gracious, it's Penelope.)
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Briefly explain the following statement from the text.
“You need some interaction to cause a transition.”
Discuss the following statement in groups of two pairs, each pair in a group taking opposite points of view.
The methods of inquiry of history, science, and philosophy are similar.
Comment on the influence of English – the language and the way of life – on Indian life as reflected in the story. What is the narrator's attitude to English?
Is drama a good medium for conveying a social message? Discuss.
Do you know of any incident when someone has been brought back to life from the brink of death through medical help. Discuss medical procedures such as organ transplant and organ regeneration that are used to save human life.
Notice these words in the poem and guess their meaning from the context
| turquoise | darts |
How does the poem capture the elusive nature of the peacock?
Discuss in pairs
Ruskin's insistence on looking intensely at words, and assuring oneself of meaning, syllable by syllable – nay, letter by letter.
Discuss the importance of time in the narration of a story.
Discuss in pairs or in small groups
What does a novel do?
Fill in the blank.
The author wanted to grow ______________.
Name the world-famous personality who reached great heights despite of humble circumstances.
What message does this story bring out for youngsters?
Find from the lesson word/phrase that mean the following.
colours .............
‘Dull would he be of soul who could pass by.’
This line of the poem can be rewritten as:
'He would be of a dull soul.'
The figure of speech is known as ‘Inversion’.
Find out one more example of Inversion from the poem.
Select a season of your choice and give the following details:
- Time of the year -
- Characteristics- crops, festivals, etc.
- Features/changes - climate/weather/temperature etc.
- Advantages/Disadvantages -
Expand the idea inherent in the following proverb :
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread - Alexander Pope.
Comment on the given statement after reading the given dialogue -
And if we get him itself, nothing but abuse on our heads for it from the people, and maybe from our own relations -
you may begin like this
We do not think about society at large _________________________________________________.
Select the correct options :
A Midsummer-Night’s Dream is a ___________________.
- poetic drama
- comedy of errors
- a comedy based on fantasy
- a character play
- a revenge tragedy
- belongs to realm of dreams
Read the story and write about the following in short.
Kojo
Visit a library:
Read more stories from Japan, China, and Korea.
Read the following sentence aloud. Write who said it and to whom.
“Would you lend me this, just this?”
Fill in the following blanks with reference to the poem.
'In time of rain when spring and life are ______, the butterflies lift ______ wings to catch a ______ cry and trees put forth ______ leaves to sing in ______ beneath the sky as ______ boys and girls too ______ singing down the roadway'.
Many changes had occurred on the earth in the hundred years before Sayali’s trip to the moon.
Answer the following question and write in short, why the parody sounds funny.
Why does the crocodile work?
Answer in your own words.
What task did Grandpa wish to avoid?
Read the following from the Language Study pages:
- adjective clause
- adverb clause
- noun clause
Find one example of each from the passages. (Note the linking word when you do that.)
Write in your own words.
How does the poet glorify his home in the first stanza?
Say whether you agree or disagree.
The prince had rare, uncommon likes and dislikes.
List the various ways of avoiding the errors mentioned in the passage.
What is the difference between a 'dream' and a 'daydream'?
List the polite expressions we use such as ‘Pardon’.
Describe Gulliver’s walk around the city.
What is ‘e-mail’ or electronic mail?
Read the following lines from the poem and answer the question that follow.
Let me but live my life from year to year,
With forward face and unreluctant soul;
- Whom does the word ‘me’ refer to?
- What kind of life does the poet want to lead?
Read the following line from the poem and answer the question that follow.
In the dim past, nor holding back in fear From what the future veils; but with a whole And happy heart, that pays its toll To Youth and Age, and travels on with cheer.
Identify the rhyming words of the given lines.
Answer the following question based on the reading of the story. Do not forget to go back to the passage whenever necessary to find and confirm the answer.
| Action | Effect |
| While you warm yourself | I will prepare the best tea. |
| I saved enough money | |
| Six hundred and two villages were destroyed. | |
| It was a terrible earthquake and it was felt | |
| I ran back to the village | |
| They lifted the door | |
| I went to thank the Army Officer |
Read the comic strip and answer the following question.
What do you mean by cyber safety?
Write the names of the characters in this story.
1. ______ 2. ______ 3. ______
What does the poet mean by ‘Festival of flowers’?
Identify the character/speaker.
Wake up. You've been sleeping for too long.
What do you think is going to happen next?
Female Olive Ridleys come ashore at night to lay eggs.
The author did not want to plant saplings in the forest because______.
How can you balance your academic goals and your passion for sports or arts?
What word could best replace ‘charges’ in the poem - marches, rushes or pushes?
Gulliver managed to reach the land as he was______.
Try your own.
He offered _______ to his daughters.
Match the following.
| treat everyone | love each of her child |
| nation | no inner boundaries |
| kind | not divided as people |
| country | alike |
Does it work its best?
How was the rich man's house?
Who is incharge of this case?
The sparrow solved the problem with her _____.
In which season is ice cream popular?
Match with the opposite gender.
| 1. | prince | bridegroom |
| 2. | hero | princess |
| 3. | bride | heroine |
Do you think Nasruddin was good at archery?
Who was Nokomis?
