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Extract Based Questions

Read the following extracts carefully and answer the


questions that follow:

1. Some say the world will end in fire


Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favour fire.

a. What do people think about the ending of the world?


b. What is the poet’s opinion?
c. What does ‘desire’ mean here?
d. Name the poem and the poet

2. But if it had to perish twice.


I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

a. What does ‘it’ refer to here?


b. How is ‘ice’ sufficient for destruction?
c. What is the main idea of these lines?
d. What is ice a symbol of?

e. Which poetic device is used in the third line of stanza?


3. The way a crow
Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has
given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a
day I had rued
(a) Where was the crow ?
(b) What did it shake on the poet ?
(c) What does the word, ‘rued’ mean ?
(d) What is the poet’s state of mind ?

4. The way a crow


Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
(a) Where did the crow sit ?
(b) We can say that the poet was …….
(c) How did the crow change the poet’s mood ?
(d) What fell off from a hemlock tree ?

5. Has given my heart


A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.
a) Of what change does the poet mention here ?
(b) Whose part of the day has been saved ?
(c) What is the rhyme scheme of the passage ?
(d) Who is the poet ?

6.
He stalks in his vivid stripes,
The few steps of his cage,
On pads of velvet quiet,
In his quiet rage.
(a) Why the tiger could walk only a few steps?
(b) How does the tiger move in the cage?
(c) What are the two qualities of the animal under reference?
(d) Why is he in quiet rage?

7. He should be lurking in shadow,


Sliding through long grass,
Near the water hole,
Where plump deer pass.
(a) Who is ‘He’ here?
(b) Where should he be lurking?
(c) Where should he be sliding?
(d) Who would pass through the water hole?

8. He should be snarling around houses At the jungle’s edge,


Baring his white fangs, his claws,
Terrorising the village!
(a) What does the poet try to suggest through these lines?
(b) How does the tiger scare the people?
(c) Why does ‘he’ snarl?
(d) How does ‘he’ show his presence?

9. But he’s locked in a concrete cell,


His strength behind bars,
Stalking the length of his cage,
Ignoring visitors.
(a) What does the phrase ‘his strength behind the bar’
suggests?
(b) Why does the tiger ignore the visitors?
(c) What is the tiger doing in the cage?
(d) What does the expression ‘stalking the length of the cage’
imply?

10. He hears the last voice at night,


The patrolling cars,
And stares With his brilliant eyes
At the brilliant stars.
(a) What kind of voices does the tiger hear?
(b) Where does the tiger look at in the night?
(c) What do you mean by ‘patrolling’?
(d) What is the effect of the repeated use of the word ‘brilliant’?

11. What is the boy now, who has lost his ball, What, what is he
to do? I saw it go Merrily bouncing, down the street, and then
Merrily over – there it is in the water! No use to say – ‘O there
are other balls’:
(a) What has happened to the boy?
(b) Why does the poet say ‘No use to say – ‘O there are other
balls’?
(c) Which word means ‘happily’?
(d) Where did the ball go?

12. An ultimate shaking grief fixes the boy As he stands rigid,


trembling, staring down All his young days into the harbour
where His ball went. I would not intrude on him, A dlime,
another ball, is worthless.
(a) Where had the boy’s ball gone?
(b) How has the loss affected the boy?
(c) Why was ‘he’ trembling, staring down?
(d) What does the poet mean by ‘first responsibility’?

13.
……………Now
He senses first responsibility
In a world of possessions. People will take
Balls, balls will be lost always, little boy.
And no one buys a ball back. Money is external.

a) What does the boy understand?


(b) What does the word ‘balls’ signify?
(c) What is meant by the word ‘possessions’?
(d) What does “In a world of possessions mean?

14. He is learning, well behind his desperate eyes,


The epistemology of loss, how to stand up
Knowing what every man must one day know
And most know many days, how to stand up.
(a) What is the boy learning?
(b) Why are boy’s eyes desperate?
(c) What do you mean by ‘epistemology of loss’?
(d) What every man needs to know one day?

15. If ever you should go by chance


To jungles in the east;
And if there should to you advance
A large and tawny beast,
If he roars at you as you’re dyin’
You’ll know it is the Asian Lion…
a. Where can you meet a lion?
b. How, according to the poet, can you identify him?
c. What is the poet’s real purpose to give such a suggestion?
d. Which expression in the above stanza means ‘a brown
coloured wild animal’?

16. The true Chameleon is small,


A lizard sort of thing;
He hasn’t any ears at all,
And not a single wing.
If there is nothing on the tree,
’Tis the chameleon you see.

a. Which other creature does a chameleon resemble?


b. How does the poet describe a chameleon?
c. What does the poet want?
d. Why can’t one see a chameleon on the tree?

16. If when you’re walking round your yard You meet a creature there,
Who hugs you very, very hard,
Be sure it is a Bear.
If you have any doubts, I guess He’ll give you just one more caress.
a.Who is found in the yard?
b.Describe the hug given by the creature?
c.Bear hugs you very very hard.
d.Give the meaning of ‘caress’.

17.Though to distinguish beasts of prey A novice might nonplus,


The Crocodile you always may
Tell from the Hyena thus:
Hyenas come with merry smiles;
But if they weep they’re Crocodiles
a.Name the two distinguished beast mention in the stanza?
b.How do the Hyena come?
c.Crocodiles are always in tears[T/F]
d.Give the meaning of ‘novice’.

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