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

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

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Instead of being one among many, one can be different if it is one’s nature to be so. One need not take conscious efforts to be different.

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पाठ 5.2: A Father to his Son - Exercise [पृष्ठ १६५]

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सामाचीर कलवी English Class 12 TN Board
पाठ 5.2 A Father to his Son
Exercise | Q 2. g) | पृष्ठ १६५

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

How long had the soldiers been in the castle?


How safe was the castle? How was it conquered?


Our only enemy was gold


Underline the alliterated word in the following line.

The wizened warder let them through.


What is the creeper compared to?


What has Wordsworth sanctified in his poem?


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

A creeper climbs, in whose embraces bound No other tree could live.

  1. Which tree is referred to in the above lines?
  2. How does the tree survive the tight hold of the creeper?
  3. Why does Toru Dutt use the expression ‘a creeper climbs’?

Explain the following line with reference to the context.

Dear is the Casuarina to my soul;


Explain the following line with reference to the context.

It is the tree’s lament, an eerie speech,…


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


How does a man play a lover’s role?


When does a man become a judge? How?


Pick out the word in ‘alliteration’ in the following line.

“And one man in his time plays many parts”


Read the given line and answer the question that follow.

Then a soldier,

full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,

Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,

Seeking the bubble reputation

Even in the cannon's mouth.

  1. What is the soldier ready to do?
  2. Explain ‘bubble reputation’.
  3. What are the distinguishing features of this stage?

Complete the table based on your understanding of the poem.

Stage Characteristic
  crying
judge  
soldier  
  unhappy
second childhood  
  whining
old man  

What has Ulysses gained from his travel experiences?


Why did Ulysses want to hand over the kingdom to his son?


Identify the figure of speech employed in the following line.

For always roaming with a hungry heart


Read the set of line from the poem and answer the question that follow.

… I mete and dole

Unequal laws unto a savage race,

That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and

know not me.

  1. What does Ulysses do?
  2. Did he enjoy what he was doing? Give reasons.

Read the set of line from the poem and answer the question that follow.

Little remains: but every hour is saved

From that eternal silence, something more,

A bringer of new things; and vile it were

  1. How is every hour important to Ulysses?
  2. What does the term ‘Little remains’ convey?

Read the set of line from the poem and answer the question that follow.

This is my son, mine own Telemachus,

To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle Well-loved of me,

  1. Who does Ulysses entrust his kingdom to, in his absence?
  2. Bring out the significance of the ‘sceptre’.

Explain with reference to the context the following line.

To follow knowledge like a sinking star,

Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.


Explain with reference to the context the following line.

It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,

And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.


What happened to the people who wanted too much money?


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

Tell him solitude is creative if he is strong and the final decisions are made in silent rooms.

  1. Can being in solitude help a strong human being? How?
  2. Identify the figure of speech in the above line.

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

Tell him time as a stuff can be wasted.

Tell him to be a fool every so often

  1. Why does the poet suggest that time can be wasted?
  2. Identify the figure of speech in the above line.

Explain the following line with reference to the context.

and guide him among sudden betrayals

and tighten him for slack moments.


Explain how the poet guides his son who is at the threshold of manhood, to face the challenges of life.


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