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Read the given excerpt and answer the questions briefly. But must I confess how I liked him,How glad I was he had come like a guest in quiet, to drink at my water-trough - English Communicative

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Read the given excerpt and answer the questions briefly.

But must I confess how I liked him,
How glad I was he had come like a guest in quiet, to drink at my water-trough
And depart peaceful, pacified, and thankless,
Into the burning bowels of this earth?
  1. What can be inferred about the speaker's attitude towards nature based on the excerpt?   (1)
  2. List the meaning of the phrase "burning bowels of this earth”.   (1)
  3. How is the snake's arrival and departure symbolic?   (1)
  4. The speaker compares the snake to the guest. Which word in the extract displays the snake’s non-guest like behaviour?   (1)
संक्षेप में उत्तर
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उत्तर

  1. Complex relationship with nature, experiencing both admiration and fear towards its power.
  2. Depths of the earth where it is hot and dark
  3. Represents a fleeting moment of connection with nature
  4. Thankless
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2023-2024 (March) Board Sample Paper by shaalaa.com

संबंधित प्रश्न

Why did the poet throw the log at the snake?


What does the poet compare the snake's drinking habits to? Why?


What is the dilemma that the poet faces when he sees the snake?


Why did the poet have to wait near the water trough ? (Snake)


What were the conflicting thoughts in the poet's mind on seeing the snake?


Snakes generate both horror and fascination. Do you agree? Why/Why not?


Read what W.W.E. Ross feels when he sees a snake and fill in the table given
below:

The snake trying to escape the
pursuing stick, with sudden curvings
of thin long body. How beautiful and
graceful are his shapes !
He glides through the water away
from the stroke. O let him go over the
water into the reeds to hide without
hurt. Small and green he is harmless
even to children Along the sand
he lay until observed
and chased away, and now
he vanishes in the ripples
among the green slim reeds.

What is the snake doing? Words to describe the snake The Poet's plea
     

Based on your reading of the poem, answer the following question by ticking the correct option:

  • 'Asort of horror , a sort of protest overcame me' - The poet is filled with protest because

Based on your reading of the poem, answer the following question by ticking the correct option:

  • In the line 'And as he slowly drew up, snake-easing his shoulders, and entered farther'
    the phrase snake easing' his shoulders means

Based on your reading of the poem, answer the following question by ticking the correct option:

  • 'I thought how paltry, how vulgar, what a mean act' -The poet is referring to

Answer the following question briefly:

In stanza 2 and 3, the poet gives a vivid description of the snake by using suggestive expressions. What picture of the snake do you form on the basis of this description?


Answer the following question briefly:

How does the poet describe the day and the atmosphere when he had seen the snake?


Answer the following question briefly:

Do you think the snake was conscious of the poet's presence? How do you know?


Answer the following question briefly:

The poet has a dual attitude towards the snake. Why does he experience conflicting emotions on seeing the snake?


Answer the following question briefly:

You have already read Coleridge's poem The Ancient Mariner in which an albatross is killed by the mariner. Why does the poet make an allusion to the albatross?


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