(English Medium) ICSE Class 10 - CISCE Question Bank Solutions

How has the poet described a tree earlier in the poem?

What social and ecological benefits of planting a tree does the poet refer to?

In what sense is the tree ‘the harvest of a coming age’?

How does a tree planter do civic good?

Who holds ‘all the growth of our land’? Which land has the poet in mind?

Do you agree with the poet that a nation’s growth depends upon the wealth of trees? Why/why not?

In what way is the poet relevant to our times?

How does figurative language assist in conveying the theme and purpose of the poem?

Explain how diction is important in the poem with the help of an example.

Explain the importance of rythm in the poem.

Can we say that the poet has succeeded in conveying his point? How?

What is the tone of the poem?

What is universal about the theme – that is, what can we all learn from the poem?

What point is the author trying to make?

How does the poem relate to our study of the Diary of Anne Frank and the events of the Holocaust?

What are the poetic devices (figurative language) in the poem? How do they contribute to the meaning/how do they effect the poem?

What brought the six humans together? Where were they?

Is there any significance of the logs of wood in the hands of the six people?

What could these persons have done?

The poet refers to a dying fire. Who were sitting beside it and why?