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प्रश्न
Read the given lines and answer the questions given below.
I drive past the house almost every day.
The house seems to be a bit brighter.
On this warm summer day in May.
It plays with your mind.
- To whom does ‘I’ refer to?
- Pick out the alliterated words in the 2nd line.
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उत्तर
- ‘I’ refers to the poetess, Nadia Bush.
- The alliterated words in the second line are a bit brighter.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
The summer of life she's ready to see in spring.
She says, "Spring will come again, my dear
Let me care for the ones who're near.”
What does she mean by “spring will come again”?
Fill in with a word in each blanks to complete the summary of the poem. Use the help box given below.
| dignified | healthier | today's | persistent | care | symbol | innate |
| fake | adversity | hope | life | disgrace | prankster | woman |
| near | faith | optimistic | quitter | thaw | respect | lioness |
| fear | beliefs | self-respect | saw | strength |
Every woman is beautiful ______ She is the ______ of power and ______ She is prone to put her ______ at risk. Every woman is true in expressing her love and she is never ______. She is very ______ in her approach even at times of ______ she finds a ray of ______ and she continues to ______ for her ______ ones. She is the ______ and she has no _______. She is forceful in her ______ and ______ She is never a ______ and she is ______ She is ferocious like a ______ it's better for the ______ to stay away from her. Never should one try to bring ______ to her pride and ______ for she knows how to ______ and ______ them. She is ______ woman. It is ______ to love her______ her and to keep her ______.
She's a lioness; don't mess with her.
She'll not spare you if you're a prankster.
Give your examples of metaphor to describe the qualities of a woman.
She's strong in her faith, firm in her belief.
Pick out other alliterated words from the poem.
Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.
Began to complain when he found that, at home,
His cupboard was empty, and winter was come.
Who does he refer to?
Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.
At last by starvation and famine made bold,
All dripping with wet, and all trembling with cold,
Why did the cricket drip and tremble?
Who does ‘we’ refer to in first stanza?
And now, if you will set us to our task,
We will serve you four and twenty hours a day!
Do the machines serve us twenty-four hours a day?
Write your favourite stanza from the poem and find the rhyming scheme.
Read the given lines and answer the questions given below.
Rumors are constantly being made,
And each day the house just begins to fade.
What happened inside that house?
- Does the house remain the same every day?
- How does the poet consider the house to be a mystery?
