HSC Commerce Class 12 - Tamil Nadu Board of Secondary Education Question Bank Solutions

Read the set of line from the poem and answer the question that follow.

Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough

Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades

For ever and for ever when I move

1. What is experience compared to?
2. How do the lines convey that the experience is endless?

Read the set of line from the poem and answer the question that follow.

Little remains: but every hour is saved

From that eternal silence, something more,

A bringer of new things; and vile it were

1. How is every hour important to Ulysses?
2. What does the term ‘Little remains’ convey?

Read the set of line from the poem and answer the question that follow.

This is my son, mine own Telemachus,

To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle Well-loved of me,

1. Who does Ulysses entrust his kingdom to, in his absence?
2. Bring out the significance of the ‘sceptre’.

Read the set of line from the poem and answer the question that follow.

That ever with a frolic welcome took

The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed

1. What do ‘thunder’ and ‘sunshine’ refer to?
2. What do we infer about the attitude of the sailors?

Read the set of line from the poem and answer the question that follow.

Death closes all: but something ere the end,

Some work of noble note, may yet be done,

Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.

1. The above lines convey the undying spirit of Ulysses. Explain.
2. Pick out the words in alliteration in the above lines.

Read the set of line from the poem and answer the question that follow.

……for my purpose holds

To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths

Of all the western stars, until I die.

1. What was Ulysses’ purpose in life?
2. How long would his venture last?

Read the set of line from the poem and answer the question that follow.

One equal temper of heroic hearts,

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

1. Though made weak by time and fate, the hearts are heroic. Explain.
2. Pick out the words in alliteration in the above lines.

Explain with reference to the context the following line.

I cannot rest from travel: I will drink Life to the lees:

Explain with reference to the context the following line.

I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart

Explain with reference to the context the following line.

How dull it is to pause, to make an end,

To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!

Explain with reference to the context the following line.

To follow knowledge like a sinking star,

Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

Explain with reference to the context the following line.

He works his work, I mine.

Explain with reference to the context the following line.

....you and I are old;

Old age hath yet his honour and his toil;

Explain with reference to the context the following line.

The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs:

the deep Moans round with many voices.

Explain with reference to the context the following line.

It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,

And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.

Explain with reference to the context the following line.

We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven;

Explain with reference to the context the following line.

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

What makes Ulysses seek newer adventures?

List the roles and responsibilities Ulysses assigns to his son Telemachus, while he is away.

What is Ulysses’ clarion call to his sailors? How does he inspire them?