QUESTIONS FROM TEXTBOOK SOLVED
A. Think it Out
Question 1. There are two voices in the poem. Who do they belong to? Which lines indicate this?
Answer: One of them belongs to the poet and the other to the rain. These are indicated in
lines 1-2 and 3-9 respectively.
Question 1. There are two voices in the poem. Who do they belong to? Which lines indicate this?
Answer: One of them belongs to the poet and the other to the rain. These are indicated in
lines 1-2 and 3-9 respectively.
Question 2. What does the phrase ‘strange to tell’ mean?
Answer: The phrase refers to a strange phenomenon—the rain gives an answer to the poet’s query. It is surprising to report the answer.
Answer: The phrase refers to a strange phenomenon—the rain gives an answer to the poet’s query. It is surprising to report the answer.
Question 3. There is a parallel drawn between r« in and music. Which words indicate this? Explain the similarity between the two.
Answer: The following words/phrases indicate the parallel between rain and music: ‘Poem of Earth’, ‘eternal I rise impalpable out of land and the bottomless sea’ ‘For song duly with love returns.’
Both originate from a source, rise up, reach fulfilment, wander about whether cared about or not and finally return to source of origin with love.
Answer: The following words/phrases indicate the parallel between rain and music: ‘Poem of Earth’, ‘eternal I rise impalpable out of land and the bottomless sea’ ‘For song duly with love returns.’
Both originate from a source, rise up, reach fulfilment, wander about whether cared about or not and finally return to source of origin with love.
Question 4. How is the cyclic movement cf rein brought out in the poem?
Answer: Rain water rises untouched out of the land and deep sea and gathers in the sky, where it changes form, and then comes down to earth to bathe the dry tiny particles of dust layers and all that lies buried under it. Then it returns to the place of its origin. Science textbooks indicate that water vapours from the rivers and ocean rise up to the sky due to the intense heat. They assume the form of clouds and after condensation drop down as rain. The water flows back through rivers to the seas and oceans.
Answer: Rain water rises untouched out of the land and deep sea and gathers in the sky, where it changes form, and then comes down to earth to bathe the dry tiny particles of dust layers and all that lies buried under it. Then it returns to the place of its origin. Science textbooks indicate that water vapours from the rivers and ocean rise up to the sky due to the intense heat. They assume the form of clouds and after condensation drop down as rain. The water flows back through rivers to the seas and oceans.
Question 5. Why are the last two lines put within brackets?
Answer: The last two lines contain a comment about music and its cycle. These differ from the first nine lines. The first two lines are the voice of the poet whereas lines three to nine are spoken by rain. The cycle of song is put within brackets to mark the difference in speakers but similarity in content.
Answer: The last two lines contain a comment about music and its cycle. These differ from the first nine lines. The first two lines are the voice of the poet whereas lines three to nine are spoken by rain. The cycle of song is put within brackets to mark the difference in speakers but similarity in content.
Question 6. List the pairs of opposites found in the poem.
Answer: rise-descend; day-night; reck’d-unreck’d
Answer: rise-descend; day-night; reck’d-unreck’d
B. Notice the sentence pattern in the following:
Rewrite these sentences in prose.
(i) And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower.
(ii) I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain.
(iii) Eternal I rise
(iv) For song duly with love returns.
Answer: (i) I said to the soft-falling shower, “Who are you?”
(ii) The voice of the rain said, “I am the poem of Earth.”
(iii) I rise eternally.
(iv) For song returns duly with love.
Rewrite these sentences in prose.
(i) And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower.
(ii) I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain.
(iii) Eternal I rise
(iv) For song duly with love returns.
Answer: (i) I said to the soft-falling shower, “Who are you?”
(ii) The voice of the rain said, “I am the poem of Earth.”
(iii) I rise eternally.
(iv) For song returns duly with love.