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

What is the creeper compared to?

How does the creeper appear on the tree?

Describe the garden during the night.

How does the poet spend her winter?

Why is the casuarina tree dear to poet’s heart?

Name the bird that sings in the poet’s garden.

Does nature communicate with human beings?

What has Wordsworth sanctified in his poem?

To whom does Toru Dutt want to consecrate the tree’s memory?

The casuarina tree will be remembered forever. Why?

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

A creeper climbs, in whose embraces bound No other tree could live.

1. Which tree is referred to in the above lines?
2. How does the tree survive the tight hold of the creeper?
3. Why does Toru Dutt use the expression ‘a creeper climbs’?

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

The giant wears the scarf, and flowers are hung

In crimson clusters all the bough among!

1. Who is the giant here?
2. Why is the scarf colourful?

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

“Fear, trembling Hope, and Death, the skeleton,

And Time the shadow”, and though weak the verse

That would thy beauty fain, oh, fain rehearse,

May Love defend thee from oblivion’s curse.

1. What does the poet mean by the expression ‘May love defend thee from oblivion’s curse?’
2. What does the expression ‘fain’ convey?
3. What does the poet convey through the expression ‘Fear, trembling Hope’?

Explain the following line with reference to the context.

Dear is the Casuarina to my soul;

Explain the following line with reference to the context.

It is the tree’s lament, an eerie speech,…

Explain the following line with reference to the context.

Unto thy honor, Tree, beloved of those

Who now in blessed sleep for aye repose,

Identify the figure of speech used in each of the extract given below and write down the answer in the space given below. 

“ LIKE a huge Python, winding round and round

The rugged trunk indented deep with scars”,

Identify the figure of speech used in each of the extract given below and write down the answer in the space given below. 

“ A creeper climbs, in whose embraces bound

No other tree could live. But gallantly

The giant wears the scarf, and flowers are hung......”

Identify the figure of speech used in each of the extract given below and write down the answer in the space given below. 

“A gray baboon sits statue-like alone’’

Identify the figure of speech used in each of the extract given below and write down the answer in the space given below. 

“The water-lilies spring, like snow enmassed.”