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प्रश्न
Look at the words the poet uses to describe what he sees and hears at Innisfree
- Bee-loud glade
- Evenings full of the linnet’s wings
- Lake water lapping with low sounds
What pictures do these words create in your mind?
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उत्तर
- These words bring to our minds the image of buzzing bees.
- These words bring up the image of linnets flying across an evening sky.
- These words evoke not only the image but also the soft sound of a lake's water washing the shore.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Find the words in the text which show Ustad Bismillah Khan’s feelings about the items listed below. Then mark a tick (✓ ) in the correct column. Discuss your answers in class.
| Bismillah Khan’s Feelings about | Positive | Negative | Neutral |
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1. teaching children music |
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| 2. the film world | |||
| 3. migrating to the U.S.A | |||
| 4. playing at temples | |||
| 5. getting the Bharat Ratna | |||
| 6. the banks of the Ganga | |||
| 7. leaving Benaras and Dumraon |
Thinking about Language
Here are some sentences from the text. Say which of them tell you, that the author:
(a) was afraid of the snake, (b) was proud of his appearance, (c) had a sense of humour,
(d) was no longer afraid of the snake.
1. I was turned to stone.
2. I was no mere image cut in granite.
3. The arm was beginning to be drained of strength.
4. I tried in my imagination to write in bright letters outside my little heart the words, ‘O
God’.
5. I didn’t tremble. I didn’t cry out.
6. I looked into the mirror and smiled. It was an attractive smile.
7. I was suddenly a man of flesh and blood.
8. I was after all a bachelor, and a doctor too on top of it!
9. The fellow had such a sense of cleanliness…! The rascal could have taken it and used it
after washing it with soap and water.
10. Was it trying to make an important decision about growing a moustache or using eye
shadow and mascara or wearing a vermilion spot on its forehead?
Match the meanings with the words/expressions in italic, and write the appropriate
meaning next to the sentence.
I got a fright when I realised how close I was to the cliff edge.
Thinking about the Poem
Which country or countries do you think “the Northland” refers to?
What does he plant who plants a tree?
He plants cool shade and tender rain,
And seed and bud of days to be,
And years that fade and flush again;
He plants the glory of the plain;
He plants the forest's heritage;
The harvest of a coming age;
The joy that unborn eyes shall see___
These things he plants who plants a tree.
Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow:
What is meant by the ‘forest’s heritage’?
Answer the following question.
Why was the bear looking sorry for himself in the evening? Why did the cook get angry with her mistress?
Why did the bearded man press his stomach with his hand?
Compare how the music teacher played the violin with that of Lalli’s.
Name the narrator in the lesson ‘Expert Detectives’.
What happened to the Oompa-Loompa volunteer after taking the drops of Vita-Wonk?
What questions did Golu ask the python?
Why did Swami Haridas say Tansen was ‘talented’?
Was the old woman’s gift to Vijay Singh eccentric? Why?
What made the ghost believe Vijay Singh was dead?
Vijay Singh complained of insects in the cave. What was he referring to, and why?
ind the word that refers to the snake’s movements in the grass.
What does the poet refer to as ‘they’ in the following stanza?
"I saw a snake and ran away Some snakes are
dangerous, they say"
Why do you think that the spider web hanging on the door was no longer there?
Who according to poet’s brother stares the poet?
In Act V, Scene I of the play, The Tempest, Ariel reminds Prospero that it was the sixth hour because ______.
