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प्रश्न
Why is the last stage called second childhood?
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उत्तर
The last stage is called the second childhood. The old man slowly loses all his senses. He requires the support of a nurse or wife to do anything. In this stage, he departs from the world.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Have you ever visited a fort or a castle?
Why were the soldiers in the castle fearless?
Read the given line and answer the question that follow in a line or two.
All through the summer at ease we lay,
And daily from the turret wall
We watched the mowers in the hay
- Who does ‘we’ refer to?
- How did the soldiers spend the summer days?
- What could they watch from the turret wall?
Our captain was brave and we were true
Identify the figure of speech used in the following line.
Grew thin and treacherous as air.
Fill in the blanks choosing the words from the box given and complete the summary of the poem.
The casuarina tree is tall and strong, with a creeper winding around it like a (1) ______. The tree stands like a (2) ______with a colourful scarf of flowers. Birds surround the garden and the sweet song of the birds is heard. The poet is delighted to see the casuarina tree through her (3) ______. She sees a grey monkey sitting like a (4) ______on top of the tree, the cows grazing, and the water lilies (5) ______in the pond. The poet feels that the tree is dear to her not for its (6) ______appearance but for the (7) ______memories of her happy childhood that it brings to her. She strongly believes that (8) ______communicates with human beings. The poet could communicate with the tree even when she was in a far-off land as she could hear the tree (9) ______her absence. The poet (10) ______the tree’s memory to her loved ones, who are not alive. She immortalizes the tree through her poem like the poet Wordsworth who (11) ______the yew tree of Borrowdale in verse. She expresses her wish that the tree should be remembered out of love and not just because it cannot be (12) ______.
| python | statue | nature | casement |
| nostalgic | lamenting | impressive | forgotten |
| giant | consecrates | springing | sanctified |
Why is the casuarina tree dear to poet’s heart?
Name the bird that sings in the poet’s garden.
What has Wordsworth sanctified in his poem?
Identify the figure of speech used in each of the extract given below and write down the answer in the space given below.
“ What is that dirge-like murmur that I hear Like the sea breaking on a shingle -beach?
Describe the reminiscences of the poet, when she sees the casuarina tree.
Describe the various stages of a man’s life picturised in the poem “All the World’s a stage."
‘Ulysses is not happy to perform his duties as a king.’ Why?
What does Ulysses yearn for?
Identify the figure of speech employed in the following line.
To follow knowledge like a sinking star.
Read the set of line from the poem and answer the question that follow.
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
- Though made weak by time and fate, the hearts are heroic. Explain.
- Pick out the words in alliteration in the above lines.
Explain with reference to the context the following line.
I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart
Explain with reference to the context the following line.
We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven;
How would the poet’s advice help his son who is at the threshold of the manhood?
How would his being alone help the boy?
Here are a few poetic device used in the poem.
Repetition- It is a figure of speech.
Pick out the alliterated words from the poem and write.
And this might stand him for the storms
Explain the following line with reference to the context.
and guide him among sudden betrayals
and tighten him for slack moments.
Explain the following line with reference to the context.
He will be lonely enough
to have time for the work
Where was Napoleon standing on the day of attack on the city of Ratisbon?
What did the rider do when he reached Napoleon?
Read the line given below and answer the question that follow.
‘You’re wounded!’ ‘Nay’, his soldier’s pride Touched to the quick, he said:
- Why did the boy contradict Napoleon’s words?
- Why was his pride touched?
