Advertisements
Advertisements
Question
Thinking about the Poem
What are the things the wind does in the first stanza?
Advertisements
Solution
In the first stanza, the wind shutters breaks the shutters of the windows, scatters the papers, throws down the books from the shelf, tears the pages of the books and brings showers of rain.
APPEARS IN
RELATED QUESTIONS
What did Einstein call his desk drawer at the patent office? Why?
What does Jerome say was Montmorency’s ambition in life? What do you think of
Montmorency and why?
How does Iswaran describe the uprooted tree on the highway? What effect does he want to create in his listeners?
Answer of these question in a short paragraph (about 30 words).
What incidents during the Everest expedition show Santosh’s concern for her team-mates?
Old Kaspar took it from the boy,
Who stood expectant by;
And then the old man shook his head,
And,with a natural sigh,
"Tis some poor fellow's skull," said he,
"Who fell in the great victory.
"I find them in the garden,
For there's many here about;
And often when I go to plough,
The ploughshare turns them out!
For many thousand men,"said he,
"Were slain in that great victory."
Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow.
What did Old Kasper do when Peterkin came to him with the object?
The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling leaves in glee;
A poet could not be but gay,
In such a jocund company!
I gazed-and gazed-but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow.
Which jocund company is the poet referring to ?
Mr. Oliver, an Anglo-Indian teacher, was returning to his school late one night on the outskirts of the hill station of Shimla. The school was conducted on English public school lines and the boys – most of them from well-to-do Indian families – wore blazers, caps and ties. “Life” magazine, in a feature on India, had once called this school the Eton of the East.
Mr. Oliver had been teaching in this school for several years. He’s no longer there. The Shimla Bazaar, with its cinemas and restaurants, was about two miles from the school; and Mr. Oliver, a bachelor, usually strolled into the town in the evening returning after dark, when he would take short cut through a pine forest.
Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow.
Which route did Mr Oliver take on his way back?
What are the 'present wants'? Who is its need of I~ 'present wants'? Why?
From the first paragraph
(i) pick out two phrases which describe the desert as most people believe it is;
(ii) pick out two phrases which describe the dessert as specialists see it.
Which do you think is an apt description, and why?
“Have you children...” she began, and then, seeing they were curiously quiet, went on more slowly, “seen anyone lurking around the verandah?”
(i) What do you think Rukku Manni really wanted to ask?
(ii) Why did she change her question?
(iii) What did she think had happened?
Why was the new governor called to the palace?
Why did the sun ask the rays to stay up in the sky?
Which phrase in the poem expresses Dad’s self-confidence best?
Why did the narrator run away seeing the garden snake?
Multiple Choice Question:
For the child, his teacher is ________
The child wishes so because ____________.
Find out the meaning of the following words by looking them up in the dictionary. Then use them in sentences of your own.
comical
The words helper, companion, partner and accomplice have very similar meanings, but each word is typically used in certain phrases. Can you fill in the blanks below with the most commonly used words? A dictionary may help you.
tennis / golf / bridge …………….
In the poem, Birches, how are the crystal shells shed?
