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प्रश्न
Why does the poet say ‘No’ in the beginning of the third stanza?
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उत्तर
He wants to emphasize that it is not so easy to kill a tree.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Complete the table by identifying lines, against the poetic devices from the poem. One example is done for you.
| Poetic device | Lines from the poem |
| Alliteration | watch his woods |
| Personification | |
| Repetition | |
| Imagery |
I was angry with my friend
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
Whom does ‘I’ refer to?
And I watered it in fears
Night and morning with my tears;
How is ‘it’ watered?
And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright.
What does ‘apple’ signify?
Describe how his anger kept growing.
It takes much time to kill a tree,
Not a simple jab of the knife Will do it.
Can a ‘simple jab of the knife’ kill a tree?
Broad and deep, and still as time;
Seeming still, yet still in motion.
Is the time still?
Memorise the first three stanzas of the poem.
The gladdest people living are the wholesome folks who make
A circle at the fireside that no power but death can break.
Who are the gladdest people living?
It's the stick-together family that wins the joys of earth,
That hears the sweetest music and that finds the finest mirth;
How do they find their joy?
