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प्रश्न
The poem does not focus on the destination but the journey towards it. Discuss
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उत्तर
The poet discusses the merits of efforts, duty, and devotion and values of honesty, uprightness, and service-mindedness. He does not have any special appreciation for those who reach great peaks like the Himalayas. He appreciates the process, the journey, and not the destination. When the whole world has a perspective of seeking glory using any foul method of underhand dealing, the poet differs from it. For him, the means are more important than the end. However modest may be one’s position is, it is adorable if attained by competence and merit. Pride is not in heights one reaches but in a life that knows no bending or kneeling. The poet respects one who does not stoop as a king. Thus the poet pays importance to the journey of life, not the destination.
“The journey of life is not meant to be feared and planned; It is meant to be traveled and enjoyed. ”
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संबंधित प्रश्न
What happens to the poet when he visits someone for the third time?
Mention the qualities the child in the poem symbolises.
Interpret each of the following expression used in the poem, in one or two line.
laugh with their eyes
Explain the following line with reference to the context.
There will be no thrice.
Explain the things the poet has learnt when he grew into an adult.
Not everybody loves to play and participate in games, sports and other extra-curricular activities. Some of us wish to be mere spectators. List out the activities in which you like to be either a performer or a spectator. Share your views with the class.
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| e.g. | cricket | magician |
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Find out the rhyme scheme of the given stanza.
One infant grows up and becomes a jockey
Another plays basketball or hockey
This one the prize ring hates to enter
That one becomes a tackle or center…
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- connected together
- spread over the surface of the ground in a straggling manner
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And I must think, do all I can,
That there was pleasure there…
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- What was the poet’s thought about then?
Read the lines given below and answer the question that follow.
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If such be Nature’s holy plan.
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What Man has made of Man?
Listening Activity
Some phrases have been left out in the poem below. First, read the poem. Then, fill in the missing words on listening to the reading or the recording of it in full. You may listen again, if required
To Autumn
O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained
With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit
Beneath my ______, there thou may’st rest,
And tune thy jolly voice to my ______;
And all the daughters of the year shall dance!
Sing now the ______of fruits and flowers.
“The ______opens her beauties to
The sun, and love runs in her ______;
Blossoms hang round the brows of morning and
Flourish down the ______of modest eve,
Till clust’ring Summer breaks forth into singing,
And ______strew flowers round her head.
The spirits of the air live on the smells
Of fruit; and joy, with ______, roves round
The gardens, or sits singing in the trees.”
Thus sang the ______as he sat,
Then rose, girded himself, and o’er the bleak
Hills fled from our sight; but left his ______.
William Blake
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Explain the following line with reference to the context.
He always has an alibi, and one or two to spare
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- Mention a remarkable achievement of any of these personalities.
- What quality do you admire the most in each of these achievers?
- What are the qualities that you may share with them?
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- ______.
- ______.
- ______.
- ______.
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All murdered – for within the hollow crown
That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, …”
Explain the following line with reference to the context in about 5 to 8 line:
“Comes at the last, and with a little pin
Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!”
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Pick out the alliteration from the following lines:
“Comes at the last, and with a little pin…”
