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

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

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Nightingale sings in the poet’s garden.

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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. e) | पृष्ठ ५५

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

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

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


Did the soldiers fight with the enemies face to face?


Why did the narrator feel helpless?


How safe was the castle? How was it conquered?


Bring out the contrasting picture of the castle as depicted in stanzas 3 and 5.


Our gates were strong, our walls were thick,


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
   
   
   

Identify the figure of speech used in the following line.

Oh then our maze of tunneled stone


How does the poet spend her winter?


The casuarina tree will be remembered forever. Why?


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

“Fear, trembling Hope, and Death, the skeleton,

And Time the shadow”, and though weak the verse

That would thy beauty fain, oh, fain rehearse,

May Love defend thee from oblivion’s curse.

  1. What does the poet mean by the expression ‘May love defend thee from oblivion’s curse?’
  2. What does the expression ‘fain’ convey?
  3. What does the poet convey through the expression ‘Fear, trembling Hope’?

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. 

“ What is that dirge-like murmur that I hear Like the sea breaking on a shingle -beach?


What is the first stage of a human’s life?


Explain the following line briefly with reference to the context.

“Is second childishness and mere oblivion;

Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.”


Identify the figure of speech employed in the following line.

Thro’ scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea...


Identify the figure of speech employed in the following line.

To follow knowledge like a sinking star.


Explain with reference to the context the following line.

How dull it is to pause, to make an end,

To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!


Explain with reference to the context the following line.

He works his work, I mine.


Explain with reference to the context the following line.

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.


Every parent is anxious about the welfare of his/her children. Parents express their anxiety by advising them almost all the time. What kind of advice do you frequently receive from your parents? Fill in the bubbles. Tick the ones you like to follow implicitly and give reasons for the ones you don’t like to follow.


‘A tough will counts.’ Explain.


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


Explain the following line with reference to the context.

He will be lonely enough

to have time for the work


Explain the following line with reference to the context.

Brutes have been gentled where lashes failed.


Who came galloping on a horse to Napoleon?


Why did the rider keep his lips compressed?


What is the role of the young soldier in the victory of the French at Ratisbon?


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