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प्रश्न
What two things are compared in the poem?
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उत्तर
It is difficult to judge whether the poet is trying to compare or is drawing a relation. Philip Larkin, in his poem Coming, celebrates the advent of the new season, spring, with the “fresh-peeled voice” of the thrush. He creates the imagery of the spring peeled out of the winter. The old season giving birth to the new season. Nature had been sleeping in the cold and gloomy winter and now the freshness of the new season sparked a new life in it. The birds, houses, gardens, the whole nature has joined the party to welcome the spring. Seeing this transformation the poet is so happy that he himself transcends into childhood.
Here Larkin highlights the difference between innocence and experience. He presents an innocent watching the adults, laughing and reconciling, probably after a fight or reconciling with life. How he begins to feel happy though he understands nothing. This is the innocence of the child that his happiness lies in others' happiness, which is juxtaposed with the experienced adults, who engage themselves in trivial issues creating troubles for themselves and others.
The poet has tried to bring out the difference between the two seasons and stages of human life. This mystique is beyond Larkin's comprehension and he is only left wondering about it all.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
How does Anne criticize the attitude of the grown-ups in her diary?
Read the extract and do the following activities :
B1 Likes and dislikes :
(i) The child likes eating _______
(ii) The child dislikes eating _______
They won’t eat peas, don’t like your bread -
For something in it crunches;
They gag on fat, the gravy’s gross,
They won’t eat grapes in bunches.
Tomatoes, onions, peppers, fish
Garlic nor cottage cheese;
Oh, it’s a dish uncommon rare
That truly seems to please.
No red sauce may the ice cream have,
“It’s bleeding,” they will say;
And gravely hand it to their mum
To take it to clean away
But let us speak of chocolate cake,
It must be frosted o’er;
They’ll devour three full slabs,
And calmly ask for more.
Oh, I do so always love to eat
With picky little pests,
Whose parents joy to make them
The most undesirable guests!
B2 What message does the poem convey for children?
B3 Pick out two pairs of rhyming words from the poem.
Discuss in groups of four.
The sensitive behaviour of hill-folk.
Read the text below and summarise it.
The Great Desert Where Hippos Once Wallowed
The Sahara sets a standard for dry land. It’s the world’s largest desert. Relative humidity can drop into the low single digits. There are places where it rains only about once a century. There are people who reach the end of their lives without ever seeing water come from the sky.
Yet beneath the Sahara are vast aquifers of fresh water, enough liquid to fill a small sea. It is fossil water, a treasure laid down in prehistoric times, some of it possibly a million years old. Just 6,000 years ago, the Sahara was a much different place.
It was green. Prehistoric rock art in the Sahara shows something surprising: hippopotamuses, which need year-round water.
“We don’t have much evidence of a tropical paradise out there, but we had something perfectly liveable,” says Jennifer Smith, a geologist at Washington University in St Louis.
The green Sahara was the product of the migration of the paleo-monsoon. In the same way that ice ages come and go, so too do monsoons migrate north and south. The dynamics of earth’s motion are responsible. The tilt of the earth’s axis varies in a regular cycle — sometimes the planet is more tilted towards the sun, sometimes less so. The axis also wobbles like a spinning top. The date of the earth’s perihelion — its closest approach to the sun — varies in cycle as well.
At times when the Northern Hemisphere tilts sharply towards the sun and the planet makes its closest approach, the increased blast of sunlight during the north’s summer months can cause the African monsoon (which currently occurs between the Equator and roughly 17°N latitude) to shift to the north as it did 10,000 years ago, inundating North Africa.
Around 5,000 years ago the monsoon shifted dramatically southward again. The prehistoric inhabitants of the Sahara discovered that their relatively green surroundings were undergoing something worse than a drought (and perhaps they migrated towards the Nile Valley, where Egyptian culture began to flourish at around the same time).
“We’re learning, and only in recent years, that some climate changes in the past have been as rapid as anything underway today,” says Robert Giegengack, a University of Pennsylvania geologist.
As the land dried out and vegetation decreased, the soil lost its ability to hold water when it did rain. Fewer clouds formed from evaporation. When it rained, the water washed away and evaporated quickly. There was a kind of runaway drying effect. By 4,000 years ago the Sahara had become what it is today.
No one knows how human-driven climate change may alter the Sahara in the future. It’s something scientists can ponder while sipping bottled fossil water pumped from underground.
“It’s the best water in Egypt,” Giegengack said — clean, refreshing mineral water. If you want to drink something good, try the ancient buried treasure of the Sahara.
Staff Writer, Washington Post
Tick the statement that is true.
The places mentioned in the story are all imaginary.
“I have done something; oh, God! I've done something real at last.” Why does Andrew say this? What does it mean?
Examine the communication channels in the story between Paul and Bassett.
How does Forster use the analogy of Scheherazade to establish his point ?
What quality of 'beauty' and 'love' does the poem highlight?
Guess the types of hardships they must have faced in their childhood and youth.
‘Never mind faded forests, Austin’. The word ‘faded’ means to become dim or faint. The word describes the forests that have become faint or dim in appearance. Now go through the poem again and complete the table.
| Describing word | Object | Explanation |
| 1. faded | forests | The forests have become faint or dim in appearance. |
| 2. silent | ||
| 3. unfading | ||
| 4. bright |
Think deeply and write. Is the poet really discouraging the youth from becoming vets? Explain your response.
Say WHY. . . . . .
Hardy invited Littlewood for a discussion.
Akbar thought he was greater than God.
Write a conversation between a donkey and a school boy.
Make a chart to show the important points to remember while making a graphic presentation.
Visit a library:
Read stories about Gautama Buddha. Relate one story in the class.
Talk about the good qualities of any one person you do not like. (You need not name the person.)
Complete the following sentence with reference to the passage.
At the back rose the high peak of Mount Ida, from which _______________.
Fill in the table.
| Period | Way of Addressing a Mother | Boy’s Costume | Lady’s Costume | Daily Chores | Games |
| The 1950s | silk saree | ||||
| 1910 | Kurta pajama and cap | ||||
| The 1800s | |||||
| The 1500s | |||||
| 1000 | |||||
| 100 AD | feed poultry tend sheep keep away birds plaster the yard | ||||
| 3000 BC | Chaupar |
Complete the following diagram.
How does the following character in the story live up to their name? Provide points from the story.
Taffimai Metallumai
Pick out three examples of interrogation (rhetorical questions) from the poem.
Explain in your own words the point that each one makes.
| Interrogation | Explanation |
| (1) | |
| (2) | |
| (3) |
Write in your own words.
How does the poet describe his home in the second stanza?
Do you know of similar stories in your mother tongue or in other languages? Narrate it in short.
Describe the following in one or two lines.
The first little house of the bird.
What did the husband want to do with the extra milk?
Guess the meaning of the following word.
postponed
List and say whether the following statement agrees with the passage or not.
You should always speak softly but clearly.
List and say whether the following statement agrees with the passage or not.
When you want to make a speech, there’s no need to think about it in advance.
Discuss how you will measure the worth of a book.
Discuss how you will measure the worth of a sports event.
Find two examples of the following from the lesson.
A Command
What did Ahmad tell Kasim when he dug a channel and began to draw water?
____________ raised a dreadful storm.
Identify the character or speaker
I must finish my task before I take my rest.”
Why were the policeman prevented from entering grandfather's room?
Identify the speaker/character.
‘ It’s Somu’s thoughtless ways that reduce me to tears’
What made John Shepherd-Barron to come up with the idea of ATM?
Why did Anne want to exchange the book ‘Camera Obscura’?
What does the teak tree give us?
Find out the idiom that relates to ‘whatever the circumstances’, from the first paragraph.
We do not really see the landscape from a normal train because the______.
The pit was comfortable for the wild boar to sleep in.
What is Amar Jawan Jyoti?
How does it welcome all?
Identify the character or the speaker.
“I was cruel and selfish.”
Who is the guest?
Some words sound the same but their spelling and meaning are different. Such words are called homophones. There are many homophones.
Every ______ they would go fishing.
They use ______ as bait.
The old man is _____.
What was the message on the chit?
Which disaster had hit the village?
What did Kamali get as gift?
Name the animal and sound it makes.
Who was burning with curiosity?
What secrets did he learn about beasts?
Which part of the plant should be watered?
What did the boy wonder about?
