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What is hidden inside the earth for years?

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What is hidden inside the earth for years?

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The roots are hidden inside the earth for years.

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पाठ 3.2: On Killing a Tree - Exercise [पृष्ठ ७७]

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पाठ 3.2 On Killing a Tree
Exercise | Q D. 7. | पृष्ठ ७७

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

Identify the season in these lines.


Read the following lines from the poem and answer the question that follow.

I was angry with my friend.
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe.
I told it not, my wrath did grow.

Pick out the rhyming words.


Adolescents are often distracted by feelings like anger, disappointment, and general helplessness when they face challenges at school or at home. Suggest a way to turn such feelings into positive ones.


It has grown Slowly consuming the earth,
Rising out of it, feeding Upon its crust, absorbing.

How has the tree grown?


And out of its leprous hide Sprouting leaves.

What does the phrase ‘leprous hide’ mean?


What finally happens to the tree in this poem?


Complete the table by identifying lines, against the poetic devices from the poem.

Poetic lines Poetic Devices/Figures of Speech
It takes much time to kill a tree.  
The bleeding bark will heal.  
Out of the anchoring earth  

"The Spider turned him round about, and went into his den,
For well he knew the silly Fly would soon come back again:"

Why is the poet using the word 'den' to describe the spider’s web?


Broad and deep, and still as time;
Seeming still, yet still in motion.

What is broad and deep?


If one should come too close to earth
The atmosphere will shake,
With shock wave reaching to the ground
Causing the land to quake.

When you read the poem aloud, you can feel/hear a rhythm. What according to you gives rhythm to the poem- the rhyme or the words in a line? Support your answer with examples from the poem.


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