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प्रश्न
Who does the speaker address in the second part?
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उत्तर
The speaker addresses the readers in the second part explaining the difference between his roles and that of Telemachus.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Have you ever visited a fort or a castle?
Who is the narrator in the poem?
How long had the soldiers been in the castle?
Where were the enemies?
Why does the narrator say that the enemy was no threat at all?
Why were the secret galleries bare?
Why did the narrator feel helpless?
Read the given line and answer the question that follow in a line or two.
We could do nothing, being sold.
- Why couldn’t they do anything?
- Why did they feel helpless?
Read the poem and complete the table with suitable rhyming words.
All through that summer at ease we lay,
And daily from the turret wall
We watched the mowers in the hay
And the enemy half a mile away
They seemed no threat to us at all.
For what, we thought, had we to fear
With our arms and provender, load on load,
Our towering battlements, tier on tier,
And friendly allies drawing near
On every leafy summer road.
Our gates were strong, our walls were thick,
So smooth and high, no man could win
A foothold there, no clever trick
Could take us dead or quick,
Only a bird could have got in.
What could they offer us for bait?
Our captain was brave and we were true…
There was a little private gate,
A little wicked wicket gate.
The wizened warder let them through.
Oh then our maze of tunneled stone
Grew thin and treacherous as air.
The cause was lost without a groan,
The famous citadel overthrown,
And all its secret galleries bare.
How can this shameful tale be told?
I will maintain until my death
We could do nothing, being sold:
Our only enemy was gold,
And we had no arms to fight it with.
| lay | hay |
Underline the alliterated word in the following line.
The wizened warder let them through.
How does the creeper appear on the tree?
How does the poet spend her winter?
Does nature communicate with human beings?
The casuarina tree will be remembered forever. Why?
Identify the figure of speech used in each of the extract given below and write down the answer in the space given below.
“The water-lilies spring, like snow enmassed.”
“And they have their exits and their entrances” - What do the words ‘exits’ and ‘entrances’ mean?
Bring out the features of the fourth stage of a man as described by the poet.
When does a man become a judge? How?
Why is the last stage called second childhood?
Pick out the word in ‘alliteration’ in the following line.
“Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel.”
What does Ulysses yearn for?
In what ways were Ulysses and his mariners alike?
Identify the figure of speech employed in the following line.
For always roaming with a hungry heart
Read the set of line from the poem and answer the question that follow.
This is my son, mine own Telemachus,
To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle Well-loved of me,
- Who does Ulysses entrust his kingdom to, in his absence?
- Bring out the significance of the ‘sceptre’.
What is Ulysses’ clarion call to his sailors? How does he inspire them?
What happened to the people who wanted too much money?
The young soldier matched his emperor in courage and patriotism. Elucidate your answer.
