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प्रश्न
Think and write on your own.
The last (7th) stage of life sounds very sad and miserable. How can you make old age also cheerful and happy?
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उत्तर
We can make the last stage joyful by preparing for it beforehand. We know that most of us will reach this stage before our final exit. Hence, we must maintain good health, and keep good relations with our family and the people around us. We must save enough money to get us through this stage without any stress on ourselves or others.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Pair up with your partner and name the following:
- The Seven wonders of the world- _________
- The Seven continents - ____________
- The Seven colours of the rainbow- ________
- The Seven notes of the musical scale- ________
- The Seven seas of the world - ________
Life is often compared to many things. Write down 7 things that life can be compared to and justify the comparison. For example,
- Life is a keyboard; if you press the right keys. you have typed a good destiny.
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- _____________________
- _____________________
- _____________________
- _____________________
- _____________________
Read the poem carefully and complete the following table.
| Ages of man | Role | Qualities/Actions |
Write down in your own words the differences between the following stages of a man's life.
- 2nd stage and the 4th
- 3rd stage and 5th stage
- 1st stage and 7th (last) stage
Pick out lines that contain Imagery (a picture created in the mind by using words) of the following people.
- School boy - ______
(2nd stage) - ______ - Soldier - ______
(4th stage) - ______ - Judge - ______
(5th stage) - ______ - Senior citizen - ______
(6th stage) - ______
Think and write on your own.
What is the theme/central idea of this poem?
Read the summary of the play ‘As You Like It’ by William Shakespeare using the Internet. Find out which character has narrated the above poem and on what occasion. Also, make a list of all the characters of the play.
Read the poem again and write an appreciation of the poem in paragraph format.
You will notice that there is no Rhyme-scheme in the poem. It appears similar to the poem 1.1 ‘Where the Mind is Without Fear’ by Tagore.
However, Tagore’s poem has no steady rhythm/meter either it is called Free Verse. Shakespeare uses lines with a steady rhythm of 5 beats in each. It is termed as Blank Verse. (No rhyme-scheme but uniformity in rhythm) Copy the lines from “Ánd all the men and women merely players” to “sudden and quick in quarrel”. Put a stress mark on each of the syllables stressed in the lines as - for example, And all the men and women merely players;
Read the following poem and write an appreciation of it with the help of the given points in a paragraph format:
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All the World’s a Stage All the world’s a stage, - William Shakespeare |
Points:
- The title and the poet of the poem (01)
- Rhyme scheme (01)
- Figures of speech (01)
- Central Idea/Theme (02)
