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Does nature communicate with human beings?

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Does nature communicate with human beings?

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Yes, nature communicates with human beings. William Wordsworth is a strong advocate of this communication.

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पाठ 2.2: Our Casuarina Tree - Exercise [पृष्ठ ५५]

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पाठ 2.2 Our Casuarina Tree
Exercise | Q 2. g) | पृष्ठ ५५

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

Have you ever visited a fort or a castle?


Who is the narrator in the poem?


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

A foothold there, no clever trick

Could take us dead or quick,

Only a bird could have got in.

  1. What was challenging?
  2. Which aspect of the castle’s strength is conveyed by the above line?

Describe the garden during the night.


Name the bird that sings in the poet’s garden.


What has Wordsworth sanctified in his poem?


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......”


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


Discuss with your partner the different stages in the growth of man from a new born to an adult


How does a man play a lover’s role?


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.

And then the justice,

In fair round belly with good capon lin'd,

With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,

Full of wise saws and modern instances;

  1. Whom does justice refer to?
  2. Describe his appearance.
  3. How does he behave with the people around him?
  4. What does he do to show his wisdom?

How would Telemachus transform the subjects?


‘He works his work, I mine’ – How is the work distinguished?


Identify the figure of speech employed in the following line.

To follow knowledge like a sinking star.


Identify the figure of speech employed in the following line.

There lies the port the vessel puffs her sail


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

… I mete and dole

Unequal laws unto a savage race,

That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and

know not me.

  1. What does Ulysses do?
  2. Did he enjoy what he was doing? Give reasons.

Explain with reference to the context the following line.

I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees:


Explain with reference to the context the following line.

To follow knowledge like a sinking star,

Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.


What is Ulysses’ clarion call to his sailors? How does he inspire them?


Where are the final decisions taken?


What are the poet’s thoughts on ‘being different’?


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


Why was the rider in a hurry?


What did the rider do when he reached Napoleon?


What was Napoleon’s reaction on hearing the news of victory?


When did the narrator find that the boy was badly wounded?


Napoleon was a great source of inspiration to his army. Justify.


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