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प्रश्न
What quality of 'beauty' and 'love' does the poem highlight?
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उत्तर
Romantics share a reverence for nature's beauty and find solace in her embrace. In his poem, Ode to a Nightingale, Keats realises the ultimate truth, which is death. To fight this inevitability, he celebrates the beauty of nature, in which he finds beauty through the bird's song. However, we all must die. The poet travels a journey from mortality to immortality. Keats relishes the song of the immortal nightingale and feels ecstatic. The realisation dawns upon the poet that beauty is not what we see but it lies within. And the beauty that he dwells on is of nature and it helps him to delay the ultimate, the death! However, he must die. This beauty of the bird's song, nature shall always be there, though the speaker will grow old and die one day. It is to be realised that true beauty and happiness lie in the spiritual awakening and not in this materialistic world. Nothing is permanent in this world full of momentary pleasures, neither beauty nor love.
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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?
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Tick the item that is closest in meaning to the following phrase.
to take issue with
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| Name of the play/skit: | ______________ |
| Important characters: | ______________ |
| Any famous actors/actresses: | ______________ |
| Theme: | ______________ |
| Climax: | ______________ |
| Ending: | ______________ |
| Use of lights and special effects if any: | ______________ |
| Use of background music and sound effects if any: | ______________ |
| Use of sets: | ______________ |
| The costumes, make up, etc. of the characters: | ______________ |
| How well the actors present the play and behave on the stage: | ______________ |
| Your own opinion about the play: | ______________ |
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| Words | Meaning |
| 1. yard | (a) a floor, flat area built on a ship |
| 2. mast | (b) the forward part of the main body of a ship |
| 3. bow | (c) the forward part of a deck |
| 4. deck | (d) tall, upright pole on a ship |
| 5. forecastle | (e) a pole slung across a ship’s mast. A sail hangs from a yard. |
| 6. starboard | (f) the rearmost (back) part of a ship |
| 7. stern | (g) the part which is always at the front while the ship is sailing. |
| 8. afterdeck | (h) the right-hand side of a ship as one faces forward |
| 9. fore | (i) an open deck near the back |
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Rewrite in your own words.
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| From | Up to | Title | |
| 1. | It was a hot afternoon ______ | ______ said the aunt weakly. | ‘Children Pester their Aunt’ |
| 2. | The smaller girl created a diversion ______ | ______ likely to lose his bet. | ______ |
| 3. | In a low confidential voice ______ | ______ it was so stupid,” said Cyril. | ______ |
| 4. | She (Bertha) did all that she was told ______ | ______ must be an extra good child. | ______ |
| 5. | The storyteller paused to let ______ | ______ popular tunes of the day. | ______ |
| 6. | Bertha was trembling very much ______ | ______ the three medals for goodness ______ | ______ |
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gentle-hearted
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Human characters
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a legacy of tales which have been told with much adroit
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