English Medium इयत्ता ९ - CBSE Question Bank Solutions

After you have made a choice do you always think about what might have been, or do you accept the reality?

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What are the things the wind does in the first stanza?

Have you seen anybody winnow grain at home or in a paddy field? What is the word in your language for winnowing? What do people use for winnowing? (Give the words in your language, if you know them.)

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What does the poet say the wind god winnows?

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What should we do to make friends with the wind?

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What do the last four lines of the poem mean to you?

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How does the poet speak to the wind — in anger or with humour? You must also have
seen or heard of the wind “crumbling lives”. What is your response to this? Is it like the
poet’s?

The poem you have just read is originally in the Tamil. Do you know any such poems in your language?

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What do the following phrases mean to you? Discuss in class.

(i) humid shadows
(ii) starry spheres
(iii) what a bliss
(iv) a thousand dreamy fancies into busy being start
(v) a thousand recollections weave their air-threads into woof

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What does the poet like to do when it rains?

What is the single major memory that comes to the poet? Who are the “darling
dreamers” he refers to?

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Is the poet now a child? Is his mother still alive?

When you were a young child, did your mother tuck you in, as the poet’s did?

Do you like rain? What do you do when it rains steadily or heavily as described in the poem?

Does everybody have a cosy bed to lie in when it rains? Look around you and describe how different kinds of people or animals spend time, seek shelter etc. during rain.

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Which country or countries do you think “the Northland” refers to?

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What did Saint Peter ask the old lady for? What was the lady’s reaction?

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How did he punish her?

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How does the woodpecker get her food?

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Do you think that the old lady would have been so ungenerous if she had known who Saint Peter really was? What would she have done then?