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Why does the poet advise his son to have lazy days?

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Why does the poet advise his son to have lazy days?

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The poet advises his son to have lazy days because that helps him to seek his strong motives and find his own real inherent abilities.

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अध्याय 5.2: A Father to his Son - Exercise [पृष्ठ १६५]

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सामाचीर कलवी English Class 12 TN Board
अध्याय 5.2 A Father to his Son
Exercise | Q 2. h) | पृष्ठ १६५

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What thoughts come to your mind when you think about a castle? Add your ideas to the list

moat, huge buildings, soldiers, weapons ______,______.


Have you ever visited a fort or a castle?


Why were the secret galleries bare?


Read the given line and answer the question that follow in a line or two.

Oh then our maze of tunneled stone
Grew thin and treacherous as air.
The castle was lost without a groan,
The famous citadel overthrown,
  1. Bring out the contrast in the first two lines.
  2. What is the rhyme scheme of the given stanza?

Read the given line and answer the question that follow in a line or two.

We could do nothing, being sold.

  1. Why couldn’t they do anything?
  2. Why did they feel helpless?

I will maintain until my death


Underline the alliterated word in the following line.

The wizened warder let them through.


Identify the figure of speech used in the following line.

How can this shameful tale be told?


You visit your school after several years. As you cross the banyan tree at the entrance, cheerful memories fi ll your mind. Fill the bubbles with your memories.


Fill in the blanks choosing the words from the box given and complete the summary of the poem.

The casuarina tree is tall and strong, with a creeper winding around it like a (1) ______. The tree stands like a (2) ______with a colourful scarf of flowers. Birds surround the garden and the sweet song of the birds is heard. The poet is delighted to see the casuarina tree through her (3) ______. She sees a grey monkey sitting like a (4) ______on top of the tree, the cows grazing, and the water lilies (5) ______in the pond. The poet feels that the tree is dear to her not for its (6) ______appearance but for the (7) ______memories of her happy childhood that it brings to her. She strongly believes that (8) ______communicates with human beings. The poet could communicate with the tree even when she was in a far-off land as she could hear the tree (9) ______her absence. The poet (10) ______the tree’s memory to her loved ones, who are not alive. She immortalizes the tree through her poem like the poet Wordsworth who (11) ______the yew tree of Borrowdale in verse. She expresses her wish that the tree should be remembered out of love and not just because it cannot be (12) ______.

python statue nature casement
nostalgic lamenting impressive forgotten
giant consecrates springing sanctified

How does the creeper appear on the tree?


How does the poet spend her winter?


Explain the following line with reference to the context.

Dear is the Casuarina to my soul;


Identify the figure of speech used in each of the extract given below and write down the answer in the space given below. 

“ A creeper climbs, in whose embraces bound

No other tree could live. But gallantly

The giant wears the scarf, and flowers are hung......”


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.”


Describe the reminiscences of the poet, when she sees the casuarina tree.


Bring out the features of the fourth stage of a man as described by the poet.


Explain the following line briefly with reference to the context.

“Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,

Seeking the bubble reputation”.“They have their exits and their entrances;


Read the given line and answer the question that follow.

Then the whining school-boy, with his satchel

And shining morning face, creeping like snail

Unwillingly to school.

  1. Which stage of life is being referred to here by the poet?
  2. What are the characteristics of this stage?
  3. How does the boy go to school?
  4. Which figure of speech has been employed in the second line?

Read the given line and answer the question that follow.

Then a soldier,

full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,

Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,

Seeking the bubble reputation

Even in the cannon's mouth.

  1. What is the soldier ready to do?
  2. Explain ‘bubble reputation’.
  3. What are the distinguishing features of this stage?

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Read the set of line from the poem and answer the question that follow.

……for my purpose holds

To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths

Of all the western stars, until I die.

  1. What was Ulysses’ purpose in life?
  2. How long would his venture last?

Explain with reference to the context the following line.

I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart


Explain with reference to the context the following line.

We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven;


Read the line given below and answer the question that follow.

“Life is a soft loam; be gentle; go easy.” And this too might serve him.

  1. Why does the poet suggest to take life easy?
  2. Identify the figure of speech in the above line.

Explain the following line with reference to the context.

and guide him among sudden betrayals

and tighten him for slack moments.


Explain how the poet guides his son who is at the threshold of manhood, to face the challenges of life.


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What does the phrase ‘full galloping’ suggest?


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