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प्रश्न
How does the poet bring about the comparison of life with the river? Explain it with reference to the poem.
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उत्तर १
Title: The River
Poet: Caroline Ann Bowles (1786 -1854)
Theme: The journey of life to eternity.
In the poem “The River”, the poet Caroline Ann Bowles compares river with various stages in a person’s life. The river sparkles brightly. It dances over the yellow pebbles. It glances through the flowers and foliage. The river swells and rushes through rough and smooth places.’ It also brawls and leaps. It goes by rough rocks and rose – banks. The river is like a reckless youth. The river is full, wide, and deep. It is motionless like time.
Though it seems to be still, nves towards the ocean. It is like a man in his prime. The river moves down quickly into .1 *. -ea. The sea is very deep down quickly into the sea. The sea is very deep and its depth lias never been measured by a line. None has gone by ship completely around the sea which is like an eternity.
“It the earth is the mother, the rivers are her veins”
उत्तर २
In the poem ‘The River’ the poet compares the river with the different stages in a man’s life. The river is bright sparkling on its way. It dances over the yellow pebbles. It glances through the flowers and foliage. It is like a child at play. The river is selling and rushing through rough and smooth surfaces. It is brawling and leaps. It goes through the rough rocks and rose-banks. It is compared to a recess youth.
The river is full, wide, and deep. it is still like time. It appears motionless but keeps moving to the ocean. It is like a life in its prime. the river runs quickly into the sea. The line has never measured the depth of the sea. No ship has ever rounded the sea compkkiy. the river is compared to eternity.
‘The river of knowledge has no depth’.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
Identify the season in these lines.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near.
Who is the speaker?
What are the sounds heard by the poet?
Identify the rhyme scheme used in each stanza. One example has been done for you.
| Stanza | Rhyme scheme |
| 1 | aaba |
| 2 | |
| 3 | |
| 4 |
Complete the table by identifying lines, against the poetic devices from the poem. One example is done for you.
| Poetic device | Lines from the poem |
| Alliteration | watch his woods |
| Personification | |
| Repetition | |
| Imagery |
The root is to be pulled out
Out of the anchoring earth;
What does ‘anchoring earth’ mean?
What does the poet mean by ‘bleeding bark’?
"And now dear little children, who may this story read,
To idle, silly flattering words, I pray you ne’er give heed:"
Who does ‘I’ refer to?
Fill in the crossword puzzle using the clues given below.
ACROSS
2. Earth's only natural satellite
3. Morning star
6. Titan is the largest moon of ____
9. Smaller bodies in orbit around the Sun
10. The star at the centre of solar system
11. The Blue planet
12. Largest planet in the solar system.
DOWN
1. Smallest planet in the Solar system
2. Our Galaxy
4. Seventh planet from the sun
5. Distance travelled by light in a vacuum in one tropical year
7. Farthest planet in the Solar system
8. The Red planet.
In the dust, they leave behind,
Could have started life on the earth,
Which resulted in mankind.
According to scientists, how did life start on earth?
