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"So much as the trusting sorrow of what is unsaid"- Roadside Stand what does the lines given above signify?explain.
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........On their slag heap, these children
Wear skins through by bones and spectacles Of steel
With mended glass, like bottle bits on stones.
(a) Name the poem and the poet.
(b) Explain : 'slag heap'.
(c) What future awaits these children ?
(d) Name the figure of speech used in the third line.
"So much as the trusting sorrow of what is unsaid"- Roadside Stand
what does the lines given above signify?explain.
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1. Why should governers, teachers, inspectors and other important and powerful persons do to improve the lot of children living in slums ?
2. What does the poet wish for the children of slum ?
3. "History is there where language is son". Justify ?
4. Find yet for these....................capes and stars of word
(i) Who are these children ?
(ii) What is their would like ?
(iii) What kind of future does the poet foresec for them ?
(iv) Why does the poet say that the narrow street is sealed ?
Explain the above lines.
Who are the 'littlest ones' mentioned here?
Q. How will counting upto 12 and keeping still help us?
Q. Why didn't we speak in any language and move our arms so much?
Q. What will counting upto 12 help men to achieve?
Q. What does poet say about different kinds of wave? What alternate does he suggest?
Q. Why does Pablo Neruda urge us to keep still?
A) Alliteration
B) Metaphor
C) Personification
D) Pun
pleasant and peaceful sleep
disturbed sleep
nightmares
wishes coming true
Read the extracts and answer the questions:
Unless, governor, inspector, visitor
This map becomes their window and these
windows
That shut upon their lives like catacombs
(a) What is the ambience of an elementary school in a slum ?
(b) What does the reference to the 'governor, inspector and visitor' mean ?
(c) How does the map become their window ?
8. Read the following stanza and answer the questions that follow:
.... On their slag heap, these children
Wear skins peeped through by bones and spectacles of steel
With mended glass, like bottle bits on stones.
All of their time and space are foggy slum.
So blot their maps with slums as big as doom.
(a) Which two images are used to describe these slums?
(b) What sort of life do these children lead?
(c) Which figure of speech is used in the last line?
On the same globe and the same land.
He speaks I cannot understand
Myself why anger grows from grief.
We each put out an empty hand,
a.) What do the words `an empty hand` signify ?
b.) What could be the cause for their distancing from each other ?
c.) How does the poet feel when his relationship with his son comes under strain ?
d.) State the rhyming scheme followed in the poem?
A)We must understand that sadness is an ocean and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim.
B)Never trust your fears you they don't know your strength .
C)The greatest pleasure is in life in is doing what people say you cannot do .
D)The only person I need to compare myself is to my yesterday self.
In this question the answer given is B ,but the answer should be A right?
birth - place, after fulfilment, wandering
Reck'd or unreck'd, duly with
love returns.
Do you wish the world were better?
Let me tell you what to do:
Set a watch upon your actions.
Keep them always straight and true;
Rid your mind of selfish motives
Let your thoughts be clean and high:
You can make a little Eden
Of the sphere you occupy.
Do you wish the world were wiser?
Well, suppose you make a start
By accumulating wisdom
In the scrapbook of your heart
Do not waste one page on folly;
Live to learn and learn to live
If you want to give me knowledge
You must get it ere you give.