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प्रश्न
What does the crown of rulers stand for?
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उत्तर
The Crown of kings stands for power and the right to rule a kingdom.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
What happens to the poet when he visits someone for the third time?
Pick out the expressions that indicate conflicting ideas.
What pleasantries does the poet use to fake cordiality?
Interpret each of the following expression used in the poem, in one or two line.
shake hands without hearts
Explain the following lines with reference to the context.
Once upon a time, son They used to laugh with their eyes:
‘Face is the index of the mind.’ Does this adage concur with the views of the poet?
Read the given lines and answer the questions that follow in a sentence or two.
With all my heart I do admire
Athletes who sweat for fun or hire
- Whom does the poet admire?
- For what reasons do the athletes sweat?
Explain the following with reference to the context in about 50–60 word each.
Athletes, I’ll drink to you, Or eat with you, Or anything except compete with you…
Underline the alliterated word in the following line.
They do not ever in their dealings…
Would you like to exchange your place with someone else? Why/why not?
You are the School Pupil Leader. Mention some qualities that can be drawn from the field of sports to improve your leadership skills.
Find words from the poem that convey the following ideas:
- connected together
- spread over the surface of the ground in a straggling manner
- make out or understand
- slender woody shoots growing from branches or stems of trees
Explain the following line with reference to the context in about four to five sentence each.
Have I not reason to lament
What Man has made of Man?
Read the following line and identify the figure of speech used in each extract.
What Man has made of Man?
How do people bring grief and sorrow to one another?
The poem is set in a ______.
Listening Activity
Some phrases have been left out in the poem below. First, read the poem. Then, fill in the missing words on listening to the reading or the recording of it in full. You may listen again, if required
To Autumn
O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained
With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit
Beneath my ______, there thou may’st rest,
And tune thy jolly voice to my ______;
And all the daughters of the year shall dance!
Sing now the ______of fruits and flowers.
“The ______opens her beauties to
The sun, and love runs in her ______;
Blossoms hang round the brows of morning and
Flourish down the ______of modest eve,
Till clust’ring Summer breaks forth into singing,
And ______strew flowers round her head.
The spirits of the air live on the smells
Of fruit; and joy, with ______, roves round
The gardens, or sits singing in the trees.”
Thus sang the ______as he sat,
Then rose, girded himself, and o’er the bleak
Hills fled from our sight; but left his ______.
William Blake
What are the mysterious ways in which Macavity acts?
Explain the following line with reference to the context.
And his footprints are not found in any file of Scotland Yard’s
Explain the following line with reference to the context.
He always has an alibi, and one or two to spare
Which path should we follow in life?
Fill in the blank with appropriate word from the box and complete the statement suitably:
Alexander the Great, wished to conquer many lands and ______the entire world.
Who is Bolingbroke? Is he a friend or foe?
Are all deposed kings slain by the deposer?
Explain the following line with reference to the context in about 5 to 8 line:
All murdered – for within the hollow crown
That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, …”
Read the poem once again carefully and identify the figure of speech that has been used in each of the following line from the poem:
“How can you say to me, I am a king?”
Read the poem once again carefully and identify the figure of speech that has been used in each of the following line from the poem:
“Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp,…”
Pick out the alliteration from the following lines:
“Our lands, our lives, and all, are Bolingbroke’s,…”
