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

‘He works his work, I mine’ – How is the work distinguished?

In what ways were Ulysses and his mariners alike?

What could be the possible outcomes of their travel?

Identify the figure of speech employed in the following line.

Thro’ scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea...

Identify the figure of speech employed in the following line.

For always roaming with a hungry heart

Identify the figure of speech employed in the following line.

And drunk delight of battle with my peers;

Identify the figure of speech employed in the following line.

.....the deep Moans round with many voices.

Identify the figure of speech employed in the following line.

To follow knowledge like a sinking star.

Identify the figure of speech employed in the following line.

There lies the port the vessel puffs her sail

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

… I mete and dole

Unequal laws unto a savage race,

That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and

know not me.

1. What does Ulysses do?
2. Did he enjoy what he was doing? Give reasons.

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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’.

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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?

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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.

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……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?

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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!