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प्रश्न
What was the ‘shameful act’?
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उत्तर
Being sold to an enemy and losing the castle without a heroic fight is a ‘shameful act’.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
What thoughts come to your mind when you think about a castle? Add your ideas to the list
moat, huge buildings, soldiers, weapons ______,______.
Why were the soldiers in the castle fearless?
How did the enemies enter the castle?
Why didn’t the narrator want to tell the tale to anybody?
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.
Our gates were strong, our walls were thick,
So smooth and high, no man could win.
- How safe was the castle?
- What was the firm belief of the soldiers?
I will maintain until my death
Underline the alliterated word in the following line.
With our arms and provender, load on load.
Identify the figure of speech used in the following line.
Oh then our maze of tunneled stone
Identify the figure of speech used in the following line.
Grew thin and treacherous as air.
Identify the figure of speech used in the following line.
Our only enemy was gold,
You visit your school after several years. As you cross the banyan tree at the entrance, cheerful memories fi ll your mind. Fill the bubbles with your memories.
Name the bird that sings in the poet’s garden.
Identify the figure of speech used in each of the extract given below and write down the answer in the space given below.
“ LIKE a huge Python, winding round and round
The rugged trunk indented deep with scars”,
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......”
“And they have their exits and their entrances” - What do the words ‘exits’ and ‘entrances’ mean?
Bring out the features of the fourth stage of a man as described by the poet.
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.
- What is the soldier ready to do?
- Explain ‘bubble reputation’.
- What are the distinguishing features of this stage?
Why did Ulysses want to hand over the kingdom to his son?
How would Telemachus transform the subjects?
How would the poet’s advice help his son who is at the threshold of the manhood?
‘A tough will counts.’ Explain.
How would his being alone help the boy?
Where are the final decisions taken?
The poet says
‘Without rich wanting nothing arrives’ but he condemns ‘the quest of lucre beyond a few easy needs.’ Analyse the difference and write.
Here are a few poetic device used in the poem.
Repetition- It is a figure of speech.
Explain the following line with reference to the context.
Yet learning something out of every folly
hoping to repeat none of the cheap follies
How according to the poet is it possible for his son to bring changes into a world that resents change?
Why did the rider keep his lips compressed?
