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प्रश्न
What feelings are evoked in us by the machines in this poem?
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उत्तर
Love, pity, and forgiveness are the feelings evoked in us by the machines.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
She's a lioness; don't mess with her.
She'll not spare you if you're a prankster.
Pick out the line that has a metaphor in it.
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.
Why was his cupboard empty?
Based on your understanding of the poem, complete the summary using the phrases given below.
In this narrative poem, the poet brings out the idea that is essential for every creature. He conveys this message to the readers through a story of __________ The ant spends all its summer saving __________. The cricket __________ happily in the summer. He __________ anything for the winter. When winter comes, he is worried that his __________ is empty. So, he seeks the help of the ant to have __________ and a __________ to stay. The cricket was even prepared to repay it in the future. The ant made it clear that ants __________. He also enquired the cricket if it had saved anything when the weather was fine. The cricket answered that it had sung day and night enjoying__________. The ant threw the
cricket out and stated in a stern voice it should dance in the winter season too. In his concluding lines, the poet affirms that this is not __________ but it is true and applicable to __________ also.
Who are the speakers and listeners of this poem?
And now, if you will set us to our task,
We will serve you four and twenty hours a day!
Who does the pronoun ‘you’ refer to here?
Read the poem and find the line for the following poetic device or write your own example.
Alliteration.
Read the poem and find the line for the following poetic device or write your own example.
Assonance.
Based on the understanding of the poem, read the following lines and answer the questions given below.
They, too, aware of sun and air and water,
Are fed by peaceful harvests, by war’s long winter started.
- What is common for all of us?
- How are we fed?
- Mention the season referred here?
Based on the understanding of the poem, read the following lines and answer the questions given below.
Their hands are ours, and in their lines, we read
A labour not different from our own.
- Who does ‘their’ refer to?
- What does the poet mean by ‘lines we read’?
- What does not differ?
Read the given lines and answer the questions given below.
It never grows leaves,
Not in the winter, spring, summer, or fall.
It just sits there never getting small or ever-growing tall.
- What does ‘it’ refer to?
- In what way the tree is a mystery?
