Last 3 Board Papers Activities on Poetry section.
Last 3 Board Papers Activities on
Poetry section.
Sept 2021
Q. 3. (A) Read the extract and
complete the activities given below:
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He
felt the cheering power of spring, It
made him whistle, it made him sing: But
the Rover's mirth was wickedness. His
heart was mirthful to excess, His
eye was on the Inchcape float: Quoth
he, "My men, put out the boat, And
row me to the Inchcape Rock, And
I'll plague the Abbot of Aberbrothok". The
boat is lowered, the boatmen row, |
And
to the Inchcape Rock, they go Sir
Ralph bent over from the boat, And
he cut the Bell from the Inchcape float. Down
sunk the Bell with a gurgling sound. The
bubbles rose and burst around; Quoth
Sir Ralph, 'The next who comes to the Rock
Won't bless the Abbot of Aberbrothok." |
A1. Rewrite the following
sentences as per their occurrence in the extract:
(1) Sir Ralph cut the Inchcape
Bell.
(2) Sir Ralph asked his men to
row him to the Inchcape Rock.
(3) The Inchcape Bell sank.
(4) Sir Ralph kept his eye on
the Inchcape float.
Answer: -
1.
(4) Sir Ralph kept his eye on the Inchcape float.
2.
(2) Sir Ralph asked his men to row him to the Inchcape
Rock.
3.
(1) Sir Ralph cut the Inchcape Bell.
4.
(3) The Inchcape Bell sank.
A2. 'But the Rover's mirth was
wickedness': Explain the line in your own words.
Answer: -
'But the Rover's mirth was
wickedness': The spring affects Ralph. He spotted the Inchcape Bell and hatched
the plan to destroy the good work done by the Abbot. Jealous thought made him
joyful. The evil intention of destroying a good work.
A3. 'Those men who do wrong
things, meet with due punishment': Express your point
of view on the above statement.
Answer: -
I agree with the statement
that says 'those men who do wrong things, meet with due punishment' because
there is a karma philosophy which stated that every action will be equally
rewarded if we did well we will be rewarded but if we do something wrong we
have to pay for the same. It's like "tit for tat".
A4. Pick out and write the
rhyming words from the first stanza and also write its rhyme scheme.
Answer: - Poetic Device and Rhyme Scheme
The rhyming words are.
spring - sing
excess - wickedness
The rhyme Scheme is (aa bb)
A5. Compose four poetic lines
of your own on - *A memorable evening on a beautiful beach".
Answer: -
The Beach
Come to the beach
Where the sea is blue
And little white waves
Come running at you.
(Since it's an open-ended
question accept any reasonable correct answer)
(B) Appreciation: Write a poetic
appreciation of the poem given below:
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When
I had money, money, O! I
knew no joy till I went poor; For
many, a false man as a friend Came
knocking all day at my door. Then
felt I like a child that holds A
trumpet that he must not blow Because
a man is dead; I
dared not speak to let this false world know. Much
have I thought of life and seen How
poor men's hearts are ever light; |
And
how their wives do hum like bees About
their work, from morn till night. So,
when I hear these poor ones laugh, And
see the rich ones coldly frown Poor
men think I, need not go up So
much as rich men should come down. When
I had money, money, O! My
many friends proved all untrue; But
now I have no money, O! My
friends are real, though very few! |
Poetic Appreciation of the
poem Money.
The poem
"Money" is the poem taken from the famous poetic volume of W. H.
Davies "The Collected Poem" published in the year 1916. The poet has
an identity as Welsh Poet and writer as he was born and brought up there. The
poem deals with the theme that "the real happiness is not in being rich
but the real happiness one must become poor" because the poet has an
experience that whenever he had money he had many friends but they were
interested in his wealth but after becoming poor he had very few friends but all
of them are true. The poet realised that real happiness we can feel only when
we become poor.
The poem has five stanzas of 4 lines each with the regular
rhyme scheme where only the second and fourth line rhyme with each other, thus
the rhythm scheme is abcb. The poet enriches the poem with many figures of
speech like Simile, Repetition, Inversion, Antithesis Onomatopoeia etc. The
language used by the poet is very simple and easy to understand. The special
feature of the poem is that the poet used the used interjection... O!" in
the very first and last stanzas to show the intensity of his feelings. The
moral of the poem is money may be very important but the most important thing
in life is true friends which we can get only in poverty. So we must value people
and not money. I like the poem very much because this poem tells the harsh
reality of life.
Q. 3. (A) Read the extract and
complete the activities given below
March 2022.
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Afoot
and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy,
free, the world before me, The
long brown path before me leading wherever I choose. Henceforth
ask not good fortune, I am good fortune, Henceforth
I whimper no more, postpone no more, and need nothing, Done
with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong
and content I travel the open road. The
earth, that is sufficient, I do
not want the constellations any nearer, I
know they are very well where they are, I
know they suffice for those who belong to them. (Still,
here I carry my old delicious burdens, I
carry them, men and women, carry them with me wherever I go, I
swear I can't get rid of them, I am
fill'd with them, and I will fill them in return) |
A1 Complete the following web
with the help of the poem. (2)
Answer: -
A2. Analyse the line- I asked
not good fortune, I am good fortune. (2)Answer: - Poet
has a firm belief that he is capable of creating his destiny hence he does not
ask for good fortune. He is confident about creating a good fortune.
A3. Personal response: (2)
Explain the importance of a
long path/road in man's life. (2)
Answer:- It is said that
life is a journey and in that journey if you have a long road with obstacles
and difficulties it will give you the pleasure of accomplishing the task. At
the end of the day journey matters, not the destination. Hence if the road is
long it will give you the satisfaction of travelling.
(Since it's an open-ended
question accept any reasonable correct answer)
A4. Poetic Device: (2)
Identify and explain the
figure of speech in the following line.
Still, here I carry old
delicious burdens.
Answer:- Paradox: opposite
impossible ideas or concepts put together.
Transferred epithet: The
epithet (adjective) 'delicious' which is usually used to describe the food is
transferred from 'food' to 'burdens'.
Inversion: The words are not
in the correct prose order. The correct word order is: Still, I carry old
delicious burdens here.
A5. Poetic creativity: (2)
Complete the given lines using
your imagination.
There is no way leading
back
I move
forward......................
Answers:-
There is no way leading
back
I move forward with the duties
of sack.
Or
There is no way leading
back
I move forward on the new
track.
(Since it's a question based
on creativity accept any reasonable correct answer)
Write a poetic appreciation of
the poem given below:
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Poetic
Appreciation of the poem "Have You Earned Your Tomorrow"
The poem, 'Have
You Earned Your Tomorrow' Is the inspirational poem of the well-known
British American poet Edger Guest. The poet used to write in very
simple language optimistically that's why he is known as a Peoples' Poet. A
similar simplicity and optimism can be seen in the present poem. The poem is in
a question form, the poet has been asking the questions readers. It is
quatrains as it has four lines stanza structure. The poem has four stanzas of
four lines each with a regular rhyme scheme. The first line rhymes
with the second and the third line with the fourth. Hence the rhyme scheme of
the poem is aabb, ccaa, ddee, faa. The speciality of the poem is that it has
eleven questions in the poem, hence the prominent figure of speech in the poem
is Interrogation. There is one more noticeable figure of speech in the poem
which is Alliteration.
The main theme of the poem is an
inspiration. It's an inspirational poem that enables thef readers to do the
self Introspection and helps us with self-improvement. The poet is asking the
readers that have they secured their future by helping others or doing their
duties for others. The poet said that today's good deeds will be the treasure
of tomorrow. It also focuses on the karma philosophy that earns your tomorrow
by doing good to others today. The questions in the poem are telling us to do
good to others or to make someone's day.
The moral of
the poem is that "As you sow so shall you reap" whatever you have
done today same thing you are going to get back. For expecting a good future
from the future we should be good, and do good to get good returns. I like this
poem very much as it helps us with self-improvement.
✒️✒️✒️✒️✒️✒️✒️✒️✒️✒️✒️✒️✒️✒️
Q. 3. (A) Read the extract and
complete the activities given below
July 2022
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Weavers,
weaving at the break of the day, Why
do you weave a garment so gay?...... Blue
as the wing of a halcyon wild, We
weave the robes of a newborn child. Weavers,
weaving at fall of night, Why
do you weave a garment so brightly?........ Like
the plumes of a peacock, purple and green, We
weave the marriage veils of a queen. Weavers,
weaving solemn and still, What
do you weave in the moonlight chill…… White
as a feather and white as a cloud, We
weave a dead man’s funeral shroud |
A1. Complete the 'table' given
below with the help of the above extract:
Answer: -
A2. Complete the tree diagram
expressing the three phases of life and its details concerning the poem:(2)
Answer:-
A3. We come across many
colours in life. These colours have different types of effects and influence on
our lives. Write in your own words, how colours affect us in different phases
of our life. (2)
Answer:-
Colours affect our
life at an early age we love blue colour as it symbolizes calm nature as a
child is calm in its easy phase of wisdom as it's a primary colour.
The purple and
green colour new beginning and creativity after marriage and the white colour
symbolizes peace and balance as we attain peace after death.
A4 Complete the table with a
reference to the first stanza of the Poem
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Rhyming words |
Rhyme scheme |
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1. ............................ 2............................. |
1. ............................ 2............................. |
✒️Answer:-
Complete the table with a
reference to the first stanza of the Poem
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Rhyming words |
Rhyme scheme |
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1. day- gay 2. wild-child |
aa-bb |
A5. Complete the last two
lines of the following short poem by composing two lines of your own:
Life is full of ups and downs
There are joys as well as
sorrows
.............,.........................................,.................................
Answer: -
Life is full of ups and downs
There are joys as well as
sorrows
Some day you have a king's
crown
Another day you live on
borrow.
(Since it's a question based
on creativity accept any reasonable correct answer)
Q. 3. (A) Read the extract
and
Complete the activities given
below:
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My father travels on the late evening train Standing among silent commuters in the yellow light Suburbs slide past his unseeing eyes His shirt and pants are soggy and his black raincoat Stained with mud and his bag stuffed with books Is falling apart. His eyes dimmed by age Fade homeward through the humid monsoon night. Now I can see him getting off the train Like a word dropped from a long sentence. He hurries across the length of the grey platform, Crosses the railway line, enters the lane, His chappals are sticky with mud, but he hurries onward. Home again, I see him drinking weak tea, Eating a stale chapati, reading a book. He goes into the toilet to contemplate Man’s estrangement from a man-made world. Coming out he trembles at the sink, The cold water running over his brown hands, A few droplets cling to the greying hair on his wrists. His sullen children have often refused to share Jokes and secrets with him. He will now go to sleep Listening to the static on the radio, dreaming Of his ancestors and grandchildren, thinking Of nomads entering a subcontinent through a narrow pass. |
"Poetic
Appreciation of the poem Father Returning Home"
‘Father Returning
Home’ is the famous poem by Dilip Chitre, taken from 'Traveling in the cage'.
He is known as a bilingual poet. He has translated ‘the popular Marathi
Abhangas (Spiritual Poem) 'Says Tuka into English. He received the Prestigious
Sahitya Akademi Award for his remarkable contribution to poetry as well as to
Translation. The present is an autobiographical poem where the poet shows the
complete solitude and lethargic life of an old man in modern society by
depicting a picture of his father returning home from work. Thus the main theme
of the poem is "Man's Isolation from a materialistic man-made World".
The poet expressed his feelings for his working father. He realized that his
father was neglected and uncared for despite being the lone bread-earner for
the family.
Though the poem ‘Father Returning Home’ has autobiographical touch, it goes
beyond its autobiographical significance. As is an account of every old man in
a suburban area who does hard work for his family but leads a monotonous life where
no one to converse with him, understand his feelings, and look after him.
The poem consists of two stanzas of the first stanza 12 lines and the second
stanza 13 lines. It is a free verse where there is no rhyme and no rhythm. The
poem is very symbolic the very structure of the poem is also symbolic as the
lack of rhythm symbolizes that the poet’s father was uncared-for life. The
language is easy and simple but full of imagery and symbolism. It is in first
person narrative where the poet himself is the speaker who narrates the
isolated life and monotonous routine of his father. The prominent figures of
speech in the poem are Alliteration, Simile, and Onomatopoeia. The poet
expresses his feelings for his old father, but every old father has almost the
same condition so we can take the moral from the poem that 'we must look after
the elderly members in our family and society' I like the poem very much as it
depicts the real picture of monotony and lethargic life of the elderly
hard-working person in the modern society.
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