HSC Commerce इयत्ता १२ - Tamil Nadu Board of Secondary Education Question Bank Solutions for English

How would the poet’s advice help his son who is at the threshold of the manhood?

‘A tough will counts.’ Explain.

What happened to the people who wanted too much money?

What has twisted good men into thwarted worms?

How would his being alone help the boy?

Where are the final decisions taken?

What are the poet’s thoughts on ‘being different’?

Why does the poet advise his son to have lazy days?

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.

Antithesis- It is a literary device that emphasises the idea of contrast.

Here are a few poetic device used in the poem.

Transferred Epithet- It is a figure of speech in which an epithet grammatically qualifies a noun other than the person or a thing, it is actually meant to describe.

Here are a few poetic device used in the poem.

Repetition- It is a figure of speech.

Read the line given below and answer the question that follow.

“Life is hard; be steel; be a rock.”

1. How should one face life?
2. Identify the figure of speech in the above line.

Read the line given below and answer the question that follow.

“Life is a soft loam; be gentle; go easy.” And this too might serve him.

1. Why does the poet suggest to take life easy?
2. Identify the figure of speech in the above line.

Read the line given below and answer the question that follow.

Tell him solitude is creative if he is strong and the final decisions are made in silent rooms.

1. Can being in solitude help a strong human being? How?
2. Identify the figure of speech in the above line.

Read the line given below and answer the question that follow.

Tell him time as a stuff can be wasted.

Tell him to be a fool every so often

1. Why does the poet suggest that time can be wasted?
2. Identify the figure of speech in the above line.

Read the line given below and answer the question that follow.

Tell him to be a fool ever so often

and to have no shame over having been a fool

yet learning something out of every folly

hoping to repeat none of the cheap follies

1. Is it a shame to be a fool at times?
2. What does one learn from every folly?

Read the line given below and answer the question that follow.

..........Free imaginations

Bringing changes into a world resenting change.

1. How does free imagination help the world?
2. Identify the 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.