Balbharati solutions for इंग्लिश कोर्सबूक इयत्ता १० महाराष्ट्र राज्य मंडळ chapter 3.3 - Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening [Latest edition]

Share this chat with your bench-mate/classmates:

• Where did you go for a picnic recently?
• Who all accompanied you?
• Why did you select that picnic spot?
• What games/food/sights did you enjoy there?
• What did you feel when it was time to return home?

Look at the picture and frame questions.

1. Where are the trekkers trekking?

Form groups of 4 to 6 students. Every student should close his/her eyes. As the group leader reads aloud the following lines, the students try to create a picture in his/her mind. Later, each one gives a heading for each description.

1. Bright blue sky - soft white clouds sweeping by - tiny specks of birds flying high - the sun playing hide and seek behind the clouds.
   Heading ...........................
2. Miles of smooth barren land - sparkling sand stretched till the horizon, in wave - like forms - thorny, cacti propping here and there - an occasional cluster of palms provide a shady spot - a carvan of camels moving in a line, in the distance.
   Heading ...........................

• Such a figurative description that creates mental pictures, in the mind of the reader/listener is called Imagery. It is a poetic device that enhances the poem.
• Compose in your group, a four to six line poem, which contains Imagery.

Where has the poet stopped?

What season of the year is described here?

What time of the day is described here?

On what date every year is the darkest evening?

List the sounds mentioned in the poem.

Why does the traveller have to leave the lovely woods?

Put ✓ mark in front of true statement or × mark in front of false statement.

The speaker stops to watch rain falling among the trees.

Put ✓ mark in front of true statement or × mark in front of false statement.

The owner of the woods is known to the speaker.

Put ✓ mark in front of true statement or × mark in front of false statement.

The horse is worried about the cold and wants to keep going.

Put ✓ mark in front of true statement or × mark in front of false statement.

The speaker doesn’t emphasize upon the beauty of woods, he is passing through.

Find out line/lines from the poem as a proof for the following explanation.

There is no one to catch the speaker trespassing.

Find out line/lines from the poem as a proof for the following explanation.

The little horse draws his master’s attention.

Find out line/lines from the poem as a proof for the following explanation.

His horse seems anxious to keep going.

Find out line/lines from the poem as a proof for the following explanation.

The speaker prefers to stay but is forced to move onwards.

Find out line/lines from the poem as a proof for the following explanation.

The poem is set in the bygone era.

The poem is believed to have a reference to the poet’s life itself. What could the following signify? Choose from the bracket below:

(duties and responsibilities/old age/life/death/everlasting peace)

The speaker’s journey

The poem is believed to have a reference to the poet’s life itself. What could the following signify? Choose from the bracket below:

(duties and responsibilities/old age/life/death/everlasting peace)

Snowy Evening

The poem is believed to have a reference to the poet’s life itself. What could the following signify? Choose from the bracket below:

(duties and responsibilities/old age/life/death/everlasting peace)

Lovely, deep, dark woods

The poem is believed to have a reference to the poet’s life itself. What could the following signify? Choose from the bracket below:

(duties and responsibilities/old age/life/death/everlasting peace)

Promises

The poem is believed to have a reference to the poet’s life itself. What could the following signify? Choose from the bracket below:

(duties and responsibilities/old age/life/death/everlasting peace)

Sleep

Tell whether the rhyme scheme of the following stanzas is right or wrong. For the wrong rhyme scheme, give the correct one.

Give your own rhyming word for the following.

house - .............

Give your own rhyming word for the following.

woods - ..............

Give your own rhyming word for the following.

easy - ...............

Give your own rhyming word for the following.

wind - .............

Give your own rhyming word for the following.

dark - ............

Give your own rhyming word for the following.

watch - ...........

Match the lines of the poem with their Figures of speech.

Match the words given in Group A with their meanings in Group B.

Complete the following web-diagram by adding suitable describing words in the boxes. One is done for you.

Complete the following web-diagram by adding suitable describing words in the boxes. One is done for you. 

Pick out lines from the poem that contain Imagery. Write them in your notebook.

Prepare a set of questions to interview:

a person who has just returned from a trek in the woods.

Prepare a set of questions to interview:

a person who has recently scaled Mt. Everest.