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What does he think of the people of his kingdom?

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The citizen of Ithaca hoard, sleep and feed. They don’t understand the aspirations of the dreamer Ulysses.

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पाठ 4.2: Ulysses - Exercise [पृष्ठ १३१]

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पाठ 4.2 Ulysses
Exercise | Q 2. b) | पृष्ठ १३१

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

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.


Read the given line and answer the question that follow in a line or two.

Oh then our maze of tunneled stone
Grew thin and treacherous as air.
The castle was lost without a groan,
The famous citadel overthrown,
  1. Bring out the contrast in the first two lines.
  2. What is the rhyme scheme of the given stanza?

Read the given line and answer the question that follow in a line or two.

We could do nothing, being sold.

  1. Why couldn’t they do anything?
  2. Why did they feel helpless?

Underline the alliterated word in the following line.

The wizened warder let them through.


Identify the figure of speech used in the following line.

Grew thin and treacherous as air.


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


What has Wordsworth sanctified in his poem?


Identify the figure of speech used in each of the extract given below and write down the answer in the space given below. 

“ A creeper climbs, in whose embraces bound

No other tree could live. But gallantly

The giant wears the scarf, and flowers are hung......”


Explain the following line briefly with reference to the context.

“They have their exits and their entrances;

And one man in his time plays many parts,”


Explain the following line briefly with reference to the context.

“Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,

Seeking the bubble reputation”.“They have their exits and their entrances;


Read the poem once again carefully and identify the figure of speech that has been used in each of the following lines from the poem.

“All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,

Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms;
Then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. 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. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lin’d,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper’d pantaloon,

With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well sav’d, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.”

  1. “All the world's a stage”
  2. “And all the men and women merely players”
  3. “And shining morning face, creeping like snail”
  4. “Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,”
  5. “Seeking the bubble reputation”
  6. “His youthful hose, well sav’d, a world too wide”
  7. “and his big manly voice, turning again toward childish treble”

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

“and all the men and women merely players”


Read the given line and answer the question that follow.

And then the justice,

In fair round belly with good capon lin'd,

With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,

Full of wise saws and modern instances;

  1. Whom does justice refer to?
  2. Describe his appearance.
  3. How does he behave with the people around him?
  4. What does he do to show his wisdom?

Describe the various stages of a man’s life picturised in the poem “All the World’s a stage."


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


Identify the figure of speech employed in the following line.

And drunk delight of battle with my peers;


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

Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough

Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades

For ever and for ever when I move

  1. What is experience compared to?
  2. How do the lines convey that the experience is endless?

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


Here are a few poetic device used in the poem.

Transferred Epithet- It is a figure of speech in which an epithet grammatically qualifies a noun other than the person or a thing, it is actually meant to describe.


Explain the following line with reference to the context.

He will be lonely enough

to have time for the work


What did the rider do when he reached Napoleon?


Why did Napoleon’s eyes become soft as a mother eagle’s eyes?


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

‘You’re wounded!’ ‘Nay’, his soldier’s pride Touched to the quick, he said:

  1. Why did the boy contradict Napoleon’s words?
  2. Why was his pride touched?

Explain the following line with reference to the context.

Then off there flung in smiling joy, And held himself erect


Napoleon was a great source of inspiration to his army. Justify.


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