Advertisements
Advertisements
प्रश्न
Why does the poet prefer to be a primitive Pagan rather than a member of civilised society?
Advertisements
उत्तर
Wordsworth is deeply disturbed by the materialism and consumerism, brought to us by the industrialisation. It has encompassed humanity, who is too busy “getting and spending”. He mourns that humanity has such wonderful powers that are being laid waste. The mankind has given her heart away to this destructive blessing, the poet calls it a “sordid boon”, an oxymoron. Thus, Wordsworth decides to become a Pagan and prays to God. Pagans were the people of Southern Europe, they were not worshippers of a monotheistic God. They were rustics or rural folk. Wordsworth admires their tradition and perceives that to be close to nature he should be one of them. He wishes to feed on and relish the mesmerising beauty of nature. He wishes to enjoy the lea he stands on so that he might feel a little less lonely. He wants to have the glimpses of the countryside and wants to taste the rural and rustic life that a Pagan lives. He wishes to go back in time where he might get a chance to see “The Old Man of the Sea”, Proteus, rising from the sea. He wishes to see “The Messenger of the Sea”, Triton, the son of Poseidon. Wordsworth wishes to be in absolute harmony with nature.
APPEARS IN
संबंधित प्रश्न
In ‘The Diary of a Young Girl’ how did the Franks and others celebrate two festivals, Hanukkah and St. Nicholas Day in the Annexe ?
Attempt a character sketch of Mrs. Hall.
What is the meaning of the line “Both wry with the laboured ease of loss”.
Considering that this is an excerpt from a lecture, how does the commentary provided by the speaker string the arguments together?
How do the words in bold, in the lines below, illustrate the poet’s ability to convey criticism cryptically?
Our meddling intellect
Misshapes the beauteous forms of things:
We murder to dissect.
Comment on the symbols used in ‘A Munda Song’. What aspect of the tribal worldview do they reflect?
Why is the poem entitled 'Hawk Roosting'?
How did the author feel about her mother's passion to make her a dancer?
Read the extract 'Being Neighborly' and complete the following statement:
Jo swept a path around the garden for ________________.
Answer the given question in your own words.
What message do you get from this story?
Rearrange the following in the proper order and insert them into a flow chart as per the poem.
- The plate turned to lead when it was gifted to false-hearted claimants.
- Many claimants donated their wealth to receive the plate of gold.
- For almost two years, no claimants received the plate of gold.
- A plate of gold fell in a temple from Heaven.
- The peasant offered comfort and courage to a blind miserable beggar, whom all had ignored.
- The priests announced that the one who loved God most of all would receive the gift from Heaven.
- When the priest gave the plate of gold to that peasant, it shone with thrice its luster.
- A simple peasant, who had nothing to offer, came to that temple.
Name the festival that you enjoy most of all. Fill in the facts about that festival.
- Name of the festival:
- When it is celebrated:
- Why it is celebrated:
- How it is celebrated:
- Special cuisine:
- Other special features:
The last leaf fell off during the rain.
Expand the idea inherent in the following proverb:
A Bad workman blames his tools.
Human beings can learn from honey bees ______.
Read the following phrase and use it in a sentence of your own in proper form.
To voice something
Your friend fell down learning to ride a bicycle and now has given it up altogether. What do you think will be the poet’s advice? Write it down.
Fill in the gap, choosing a word from the bracket to make an appropriate comparison.
(tall / quiet / humble / merry / busy / slippery / fast / sly / slow / big)
as ______ as a fox
Suggest what you would do in the following situation:
You are going through a crisis that is making you short-tempered and impatient, due to which you end up causing harm to your family and friends. They have started complaining about it quite often.
Find what Hirabai tells the traveller by reading her words from right to left.
Find the meaning of ‘Charity begins at home’. Find other sayings which have a similar meaning.
List five questions from the play which can be answered with 'yes' or 'no'.
Imagine you are visiting the Science Fair. What other stalls (apart from the ones mentioned here) are you likely to find there? Try to list at least five more stalls.
Find out when and where we get strawberries in Maharashtra.
Make groups. One person in the group chooses an announcement. Everyone in the group reads that announcement silently but carefully and closes their books. Then that person presents the announcement, changing one of the details in the announcement. Others spot the change. For example, you might say ‘red’ key chain instead of ‘blue’ in the last announcement.
Find out how the following game is played.
Badminton
List the polite expressions we use such as ‘Pardon’.
List the characters in the play.
Birds and animals
Find two examples of the following from the lesson.
A Statement
Ask your parents or other grown-ups to show you some used notes. Observe them carefully. Have they been used properly? Write your observations.
Discuss, why it was considered as an adventurous and dangerous thing to travel in those days?
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.
How was Gonzalo helpful to Prospero when he left Milan?
What did the narrator think the unusual sound was?
Complete the given tabular column with the suitable plural forms.
| chair | - | |
| box | - | |
| Eskimo | - | |
| lady | - | |
| radius | - | |
| formula | - | |
| child | - | |
| deer | - | |
| loaf | - | |
| hero | - |
Read the following line from the poem and answer the question given below.
Nothing goes right with the folks you meet
Down on that gloomy Complaining Street.
- What is the opinion about the folks you meet down the street?
- What does the word ‘gloomy’ mean here?
“Was it just the wind?”– What do you think Usha thought it was? Why?
Read the lines and answer the questions.
Deep inside the mountain
the adventures hide themselves.
Where do adventures hide?
Why can’t Alice get through the little door into the garden?
He preferred handling mail by himself.
Read the poem aloud in groups.
A sea turtle camouflages its nest by tossing sand on it to ______.
Mithali’s mother tongue is Telugu.
Recall Merlin’s memories and complete the story map.
One of the Lilliputians gave a ten minutes talk in Gulliver’s language.
Name the tools the farmer brought out. What did he do with them?
The rich man ______ at the beggar.
Look at the picture and Choose the correct word.
How did he win the match?
How long did the competition take to reach the final?
What does Amma often say?
Whose word are these? Name the character.
“We do not have money to buy anything.”
Choose the correct one.
Monkey
What incident made Mugund make a wooden drum?
Why did everyone support Megala?
The pretty little fir tree was happy with gold leaves but______.
Do you think Nasruddin was good at archery?
What does the earth do when the day is over?
Write the related words as shown in the example.
Here is an amazing news item on how the qualities of duty and devotion is not restricted to humans alone but shared by animals. Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.
Caesar, the Hero of Mumbai on 26/11
- Mumbai: Caesar, the last surviving hero of his kind, died of a heart attack on Thursday. Caesar, a Labrador Retriever, was covered with tri-color and given an emotional farewell from the city Police Force. The Mumbai Police Commissioner too marked the passing of the hero with a tweet.
- Caesar, who was 11 years old was the sole survivor among the dogs of Mumbai Police who took part in bomb detection operations during the terrorist attack on Mumbai that began on November 26, 2008. He died of a heart attack at a farm in Virar where he and his three canine buddies had been sent after retirement. During the terror attack in Mumbai, Caesar saved several lives when he sniffed out the hand grenades left by the terrorists at the busy CST railway station.
- Caesar was also a part of the search team at Nariman House, where terrorists were holed up for three days. Earlier he was also pressed into service for bomb search operation after the 2006 serial train blasts and July 2017 blast in Mumbai. The Mumbai police officials also tweeted their grief saying, “Services of retired members of Dog Squad during 26/11 will be unforgettable. We will remember our heroes forever.”
Answer the following questions.
- The Labrador Retriever was covered with tri-color. What does this signify?
- How did Caesar save several lives at the CST railway station?
- Which word in the third paragraph of the passage means the same as ‘forced’?
- “Services of retired members of Dog Squad during 26/11 will be unforgettable”. Mention three services rendered by Caesar.
- Caesar is a Labrador breed of dogs. Name a few other native breeds that are used by the Police Force.
- Try to rewrite the news item in your mother tongue without losing the spirit and flavour of the text. Give a suitable title to the translated version.
