CTET Notes In Hindi | UNSEEN POEM
CTET Notes In Hindi | UNSEEN POEM
UNSEEN POEM
In the CTET exam English Language I consist of 1 Poem
from which 6 questions have been asked now. The
candidate has to go through the poem and answer the
questions by selecting the most appropriate option from
the given options.
Types of Questions Asked
Questions asked are either on title, theme, central idea of
the poem. Some questions are asked on certain words or
phrases or lines of the poem. The students must be well
versed in knowledge of figures of speech and rhyming
schemes of the poem as one or two questions are asked on
these also.
Tips to Solve Poetry Reading Comprehension
1. Read the poem thoroughly to understand what the poet is
trying to convey through the poem.
2. Reread the poem or find out the theme or central idea of
the poem. Pay attention to the key words also that may
help to understand the tone or mood of the poem.
3. One must try to attempt vocabulary questions very
carefully as apart from knowing the literal meaning of a
phrase or a line, these questions focus on ‘understanding’
the meaning in context of the poem.
4. Questions on figures of speech and rhyming scheme can be
attempted only if one is aware of these, so candidates must
try to learn the different figures of speech while preparing
for the exam.
5. To know the rhyming scheme one must pay attention to
pronunciation than spelling of words.
SOLVED EXAMPLES
DIRECTIONS (Poem Nos. 1-2) Read the following poems and
answer the questions that follow.
Poem 1
When did my childhood go?
Was it the day I ceased to be eleven.
Was it the time I realised that Hell and Heaven,
Could not be found in Geography,
And therefore could not be,
Was that the day!
When did my childhood go?
Was it the time I realised that adults were not
All they seemed to be,
They talked of love and preached of love,
But did not act so lovingly,
Was that the day!
When did my childhood go?
Was it when I found my mind was really mine,
To use whichever way I choose,
Producing thoughts that were not those of other people
But my own and mine alone
Was that the day!
Where did my childhood go?
It went to some forgotten place,
That is hidden in an infant’s face,
That’s all I know. Marcus Natten
1. The central theme of the poem is
(1) childhood never comes back
(2) identifying the lost childhood
(3) childhood is a swift dream
(4) a childhood memory of poet
Ans (2) As we go through the poem, we come to know that the
poem is about identifying the lost childhood. So, the central
theme of the poem would be option (2)
2. Find out the figure of speech in the line ‘Was it the time
I realised that Hell and Heaven’.
(1) Personification
(2) Hyperbole
(3) Oxymoron
(4) Alliteration
Ans (4) The lines have the words “Hell’ and ‘Heaven’. So,
alliteration is used in it.
3. The poet ……. when he lost his chdhood.
(1) dumfounded
(2) wonders
(3) shocked
(4) realised
Ans (2) Wonders would be right word to fill the blank as the poet
wonders when he lost his childhood.
4. The poet realised that he could form his own….. as he
grew up.
(1) unique decision
(2) prejudiced opinions
(3) thoughts and experience
(4) reality of some other intant
Ans (1) Stanza 3 of the poem clearly states that the poet can make
use of his mind to make his choices. So, option (1) would be
used to fill in the blank.
5. What is the name of the poem?
(1) The Lost Childhood
(2) Child: A Dream
(3) Childhood
(4) None of these
Ans (3) The name of the poem is Childhood.
6. What made the poet question his faith more rationally?
(1) Geography
(2) Education
(3) Childhood
(4) Sense of realisation
Ans (2) From Stanza 1 of the poem we come to know that once
the poet was educated, he knew that hell and heaven could not
be found in geography. So option (2) is the answer.
Poem 2
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then, took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.
Ishall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
Itook the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost
1. The poet writes, ‘Two roads diverged in a yellow wood’.
The word diverged means
(1) appeared
(2) curved
(3) branched off
(4) continued on
Ans (3) The word ‘diverged’ in the poem means to branch off or
go in different directions.
2. In the poem, a traveller comes to a fork in the road and
needs to decide which way to go, to continue his journey.
Figuratively the choice in of the road denotes
(1) the tough choices people make in the road of life
(2) the time wasted on deciding what to do
(3) life is like a forest
(4) one must travel a lot to realise his dreams
Ans (1) Figuratively the choice of the road denotes the tough
choices the people make in the road of life.
3. The tone of the speaker in the first stanza is that of
(1) excitement
(2) anger
(3) hesitation and thoughtfulness
(4) sorrow
Ans (3) In the first stanza of the poem, the tone of the poet is that
of hesitation and thoughtfulness.
4. Rhyme scheme of the poem is
(1) aabba
(2) abababc
(3) abaab
(4) abcb
Ans (3) As we go through the poem, we come to know that the
rhyme scheme of the poem is abaab.
5. The poet chooses
(1) the road which was less travelled by the people
(2) two roads which diverged in a yellow wood
(3) the unknown road
(4) to sit alone near the road side
Ans (1) As it is clear in the last stanza of the poem that the poet
chose the road which was less travelled by people.
6. An example of ‘Alliteration’ is
(1) to where it bent in the underneath
(2) I shall be telling this with a sign
(3) because it was grassy and wanted wear
(4) though as for that the passing there
Ans (4) ‘Though as for that the passing there is an example of
alliteration.
PRACTICE EXERCISE
DIRECTIONS (Poem Nos. 1-30) Read each of the following poems carefully and answer the questions that follow.
Poem 1
The Laburnum Top is silent, quite still
in the afternoon yellow September sunlight,
A few leaves yellowing, all its seeds fallen
Till the goldfinch comes, with a twitching chirrup
A suddeness, a startlement, at a branch end
Then, sleek as a lizard, and alert and abrupt,
She enters the thickness, and a machine starts up
Of chitterings, and of tremor of wings, and trillings
The whole tree trembles and thrills
It is the engine of her family.
She stokes it full, then flirts out to a branch-end
Showing her barred face identity mask
Then with eerie delicate whistle chirrup whisperings.
She launches away, towards the infinite
And the laburnum subsides to empty Ted Hughes
1. Laburnum is a kind of
(1) sweetmeat which is served after meal
(2) the golden chain tree. A commonly found tree with
golden flowers that hang in bunches
(3) a strange bird which is short fly itself
(4) rays of sunlight
2. The poet “Ted Hughes’ got the inspiration from ……… to
compose the poem.
(1) the top of laburnum
(2) the relationship between goldfinch and the poet
(3) the romantic pro-nature poets William Blake
(4) None of the above
3. What do you notice about the beginning of the poem?
(1) Some laburnum were getting yellowish gradually
(2) Sunlight has added beauty to laburnum
(3) The laburnum top is silent and still
(4) Activity of some goldfinches
4. The line ‘A suddeness, a startlement at a branch end’
contains which figure of speech
(1) Alliteration
(2) Simile
(3) Personification
(4) Hyperbole
5. The poet evoked the image of engine,
(1) it produces a variety of sounds
(2) it moves faster than other
(3) it has been compared with bird who provides energy to
her family
(4) it makes the machine work
6. What does the phrase ‘her barred face identity mask’
mean
(1) the beauty of laburnum top
(2) the rays of sunlight
(3) the striped face of the goldfinch
(4) the image of the engine of her family
Poem 2
I do not understand this child
Though we have lived together now
In the same house for years. I know
Nothing of him, so try to build
Up a relationship from how
He was when small. Yet have I killed
The seed I spent or sown it where
The land is his and none of mine?
We speak like strangers, there’s no sign
Of understanding in the air.
This child is built to my design
Yet what he loves I cannot share,
Silence surrounds us. I would have
Him prodigal, returning to
His father’s house, the home he knew,
Rather than see him make and move
His world. I would forgive him too,
Shaping from sorrow a new love.
Father and son, we both must live
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,
Longing for something to forgive. Elizabeth Jennings
1. What is the name of the poem from which these lines
have been extracted?
(1) Son to Father
(2) Son to Mother
(3) Father to Son
(4) Son and Father
2. This poem seems to be a
(1) personal
(2) non-subjective
(3) subjective
(4) memory of childhood
3. This poem deals with
(1) general issue of generation gap
(2) extravagance of son
(3) caring for elderly
(4) comfortable relationship
4. The father’s helplessness is brought out very
(1) differently
(2) poignantly
(3) seriously
(4) commonly
5. The rhyme scheme is
(1) a, b, b, a, b, a
(2) abcdef, faebdc
(3) aaba
(4) a, b, a, b, ab, c, c
6. Identify the phrase or line that indicates distance
between father and son.
(1) In the same house for years
(2) Silence surrounds us
(3) On the same globe and the same land
(4) Shaping from sorrow a new love
Poem 3
A chieftain, to the Highlands bound, Cries,
“Boatman, do not tarry!
And I’ll give thee a silver pound
To row us o’er the ferry!”–
“Now, who be ye, would cross Lochgyle,
This dark and stormy weather?”
“O, I’m the chief of Ulva’s isle,
And this, Lord Ullin’s daughter”.
And fast before her father’s men
Three days we’ve fled together,
For should he find us in the glen,
My blood would stain the heather.
His horsemen hard behind us ride
Should they our steps discover,
Then, who will cheer my bonny bride
When they have slain her lover?”–
And by my word! the bonny bird
In danger shall not tarry;
So, though the waves are raging white,
I’ll row you o’er the ferry.”-
By this the storm grew loud space,
The water-wraith was shrieking;
And in the scowl of heaven each face
Grew dark as they were speaking.
But still as wilder blew the wind,
And as the night grew drearer,
Adown the glen rode armed men,
Their trampling sounded nearer. Thomas Campbell
1. Lord Ullin’s daughter and her lover are trying to
(1) escape the wrath of her father
(2) settle in a distant land
(3) challenge the storm in the lake
(4) trying to prove their love for each other
2. The boatman agrees to ferry them across because
(1) he has fallen in love with Lord Ullin’s daughter
(2) he wants to avenge Lord Ullin
(3) he has lost his love
(4) he is sorry for the childlike innocence of the lady
3. The mood changes in the poem. It transforms from
(1) happiness to fear
(2) anxiety to griet
(3) fear to happiness
(4) love to pain
4. The shore of Lochgyle has been referred to as ‘fatal
shore’! The poetic device used here is
(1) Metaphor
(2) Simile
(3) Transferred epithet
(4) Onomatopoeia
5. The name of the poem is
(1) The Love Has no Bound
(3) Lord Ullin’s Daughter
(4) The Last First Again
(2) Wishful
6. Who is the ‘highland bound?
(1) A chieftain
(2) The boatman
(3) Lord Ullin
(4) Daughter of Lord Ullin
Poem 4
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts.
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms;
And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail.
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad,
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then, a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank: and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
William Shakespeare
1. All the world’s a stage is an extended Metaphor for
(1) the life shown in well known plays
(2) seeing the well known plays
(3) life of well known actors
(4) life of man that comes to an end
2. All have their exits and their entrances’. ‘Exits and
entrances’ refer to
(1) birth and death
(2) beginning and end of play
(3) coming and going of actors
(4) the end of the Shakespearean era
3. The seven roles that a man plays correspond to his
(1) chronological age in life
(2) desires
(3) mental age in life
(4) idea of a perfect life
4. These lines have been taken from
(1) famous play “As You Like It”
(2) Responsibilities
(3) The Stages of life Childish
(4) Turning Again Toward
5. The line ‘Creeping like snail unwilling to go to school’
contains the poetic device of
(1) Metaphor
(2) Simile
(3) Personification
(4) Hyperbole
6. In the first stage ‘Infancy’. What are the characteristic
feature?
(1) Complaining properly dressed
(2) Wise, protective
(3) Weak, dependent
(4) Teethless, poor eyesight
Poem 5
Oh, I wish I’d looked after me teeth,
And spotted the perils beneath
All the toffees I chewed,
And the sweet sticky food.
Oh, I wish I’d looked after me teeth.
I wish I’d been that much more willin’
When I had more tooth there than fillin’
To give up gobstoppers.
From respect to me choppers,
And to buy something else with me shillin’.
When I think of the lollies I licked
And the liquorice all sorts I picked,
Sherbet dabs, big and little,
All that hard peanut brittle,
My conscience gets horribly pricked.
My mother, she told me no end,
‘If you got a tooth, you got a friend’.
I was young then, and careless,
My toothbrush was hairless,
I never had much time to spend. Pam Ayres
1. The poet went to the ……. for the treatment.
(1) doctor
(2) surgeon
(3) dental college
(4) dentist
2. The title ‘Oh, I wish I’d Looked After Me Teeth’, expresses
(1) regret and longing
(2) humour
(3) excitement
(4) pleasure
3. The conscience of the speaker pricks her as she has
(1) been careless
(2) been ignorant
(3) been fun loving
(4) been rude
4. The speaker says that she has paved the way for cavities
and decay by
(1) eating the wrong food and not brushing
(2) not listening to his mother
(3) laughing at his mother’s false teeth
(4) not listening to the dentist
5. The word that replace gobstoppers is
(1) dark chocolate
(2) bunch of flowers
(3) a hard round candy
(4) boiled sweets
6. Here ‘I never had much time to spend’ means that the
poetess
(1) was very busy
(2) was too lazy
(3) did not take out time for brushing her teeth
(4) was very tired to brush her teeth
Poem 6
I am dotted silver threads dropped from heaven
By the gods. Nature then takes me, to adorn
Her fields and valleys.
I am beautiful pearls, plucked from the
Crown of Ishtar by the daughter of Dawn
To embellish the gardens.
When I cry the hills laugh;
When I humble myself the flowers rejoice;
When I bow, all things are elated.
The field and the cloud are lovers
And between them I am a messenger of mercy.
I quench the thirst of one;
I cure the ailment of the other.
The voice of thunder declares my arrival;
The rainbow announces my departure.
I am like earthly life, which begins at
The feet of the mad elements and ends
Under the upraised wings of death.
I emerge from the heart of the sea
Soar with the breeze. When I see a field in
Need, I descend and embrace the flowers and
The trees in a million little ways. Khalil Gibran
1. What is ‘I’ in the poem?
(1) The poet
(2) The rain
(3) The nature
(4) The heaven
2. The rain calls itself the ‘dotted silver threads’ as
(1) the shimmering drops fall one after the other
(2) it ties heaven and Earth
(3) it dots the Earth with shimmering water
(4) it decorates the fields
3. The tone and mood of the rain in the poem reflect its
(1) love for the Earth
(2) desire to take revenge
(3) merriment as it destroys
(4) desire to look beautiu
4. ‘When I cry, the hills laugh’ here cry refers to
(1) heavy rain
(2) drizzling
(3) rain like cats and dogs
(4) flood
5. The poet wants to convey the idea that
(1) rain is blissful
(2) everybody hears the sound of rain
(3) it gives freshness and sorrow
(4) it provides us prosperity
6. The poetic device used in the line
Rain embraces the trees’ is a
(1) Metaphor
(2) Simile
(3) Alliteration
(4) Personification
Poem 7
Where is the peace, the wishful thinking of us all?
Where is the law and order, the basic desire of each and all?
We look for a thing, which we have seldom wished for
from our genuine heart.
How to get rid of this rotten society where everyone is
sick, but calls himself healthy?
Life is short but the wish to live is too long.
The more and more we are heading towards death,
The more and more the allurements of the world do seize us,
The germs of discord and dissension prey on us,
And life is reduced to a mere dream;
What a strange world this is indeed, which keeps us all
restless and dissatisfied;
Perhaps this is all the leela the play of Maya, entrapping
us all.
O God! You have made us all slaves to Maya, seizing us
from all sides and keeping us disturbed;
I don’t know what is good and what is evil,
I fail to distinguish between Maya and reality, the foul and
the fair,
As if being born in this world was a punishment;
Are we condemned to live in this hell once and for all?
Where we have to come again and again to suffer,
God! Make us get rid of all that glitters but is not gold.
Anonymous
1. According to the poet, what is a punishment for us?
(1) To be born in this world
(2) To live in discord
(3) The play of Maya
(4) Death
2. The poet is not being able to distinguish between
(1) life and death
(2) foul and fair
(3) rich and poor
(4) strong and weak
3. What does the line; ‘where we have to come again and
again to suffer’ signify?
(1) Cycle of birth and death
(2) Place to visit
(3) Our homes
(4) This world
4. ‘Allurement’ here refers to
(1) being unsatisfied
(2) getting carried away
(3) worldly pleasures
(4) emotions
5. What, according to the poet, is our wishful thinking?
(1) Law and order
(2) Outer peace
(3) Inner peace
(4) Genuine heart
6. Our life has been condemned to like
(1) living in hell
(2) living in luxury
(3) Maya
(4) Leela
Poem 8
She lives in a garret
Up a haunted stair,
And even when she’s frightened
There’s nobody to care.
She cooks so small a dinner
She dines on the smell,
And even if she’s hungry
There’s nobody to tell.
She sweeps her musty lodging
As the dawn steals near,
And even when she’s crying
There’s nobody to hear.
I haven’t seen my neighbour
Since a long time ago,
And even if she’s dead
There’s nobody to know. Frances Park
1. The line ‘She dines on the smell’ means
(1) her food is stale
(2) she eats very little
(3) she dislikes the smell of her food
(d) she dislikes the food
2. Who is ‘she’ in the poem?
(1) A miserly woman
(2) A hungry woman
(3) A woman who lives next door
(4) A woman who lives in an old age home
3. The woman cooks a small dinner because
(1) she has no food to cook
(2) she is alone
(3) she is stingy
(4) she dislikes food
4. The attitude of the speaker is
(1) indifferent
(2) uncaring
(3) sympathetic
(3) pitiable
5. The purpose of the poem is to tell us that
(1) no one cares for lonely people
(2) the speaker’s neighbour is dead
(3) the speaker’s neighbour is hungry
(4) the woman was treated badly
6. The woman described in the poem is
(a) brave
(b) helpless
(c) sad and lonely
(d) disappointed
Poem 9
These few precepts in thy memory
See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportioned thought this act:
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel,
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
One each new hatched, unfledged comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
Bear that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice,
Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgement.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not expressed in fancy; rich not gaudy;
For the apparel often proclaims the man.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
William Shakespeare
1. It is always suggested to beware of
(1) dogs
(2) backbiting
(3) quarrels
(4) artificial policies
2. Here, the poet proposes that habit should be in ratio
(1) to one’s pocket
(2) to what suits him
(3) with the ability
(4) what are his engagements
3. What is seen through percepts in memory?
(1) Face
(2) Character
(3) Appearance
(4) Clause
4. It is always said to speak less
(1) still you can see everything
(2) but you can hear everyone
(3) and eat properly
(4) and be more productive
5. What is the side effect of taking a loan?
(1) You will have to pay interest
(2) It loses friend and itself
(3) It earns bad name
(4) You can die in debt
6. What is the opposite of rich here in line 14?
(1) Poor
(2) Borrower
(3) Poverty
(4) Gaudy
Poem 10
The nightingale, that all day long
Had cheered the village with his song
Not yet at eve his note suspended,
Nor yet when eventide was ended,
Began to feel, as well he might,
The keen demands of appetite;
When, looking eagerly around,
He spied far off, upon the ground
A something shining in the dark,
And knew the glow-worm by his spark;
So, stooping down from hawthorn top,
He thought to put him in his crop
The worm, aware of his intent,
Harangued him thus, right eloquent-
‘Did you admire my lamp,’ quoth he,
“As much as I your minstrelsy’,
You would abhor to do me wrong,
As much as I to spoil your song,
For’t was the self-same power divine,
Taught you to sing, and me to shine;
That you with music, I with light,
Might beautify and cheer the night;
The songster heard his short oration
And warbling out his approbation,
Released him as my story tells,
And found a supper somewhere else. William Cowper
1. Whom did the nightingale wish to make his crop?
(1) Hawthorn top
(2) Glow worm
(3) Mils insects
(4) Something else
2. Who taught the nightingale to sing and worm to shine?
(1) Their parents
(2) God
(3) Right from birth
(4) Each other
3. Explain, “The keen demands of appetite’.
(1) Good appetite is important for singing
(2) The nightingale was now very hungry
(3) He had a very large appetite
(4) He thought he could not fulfill his appetite
4. What is the rhyming scheme of the poem?
(1) Abba
(2) Abab
(3) Baba
(4) Aabb
5. What did the nightingale finally decide?
(1) To make the glowworm his supper
(2) To find his supper somewhere else
(3) To sit and wait for something else
(4) To keep singing for the whole night
6. Suggest a suitable topic for the poem.
(1) Song Versus Light
(2) Power of Divine
(3) The Nightingale and the Glowworm
(4) The Nightingale’s Tragedy
Poem 11
Snug in mother’s bosom
The newly born
Rests in warm embrace,
Listening to mother’s heart beat
Love takes another form
In the friendship of mates,
Eating, playing and fighting,
Childhood moves on to youth,
The irresistible attraction
Of the opposite sexes,
Brings a fiery love
Through tempestuous adulthood.
This melts into paternal love
Losing sleep when a child is sick
Untold pleasure in his achievements,
And anxiety in his misfortunes.
Old age brings another love,
And lust for life
Seeking pleasures when pleasure recedes,
And love gets colder by the day.
Inexorably moving towards the end
The ultimate love lies ahead.
But through changing seasons,
It has been all the way. Anonymous
1. What is the significant aspect of childhood?
(1) Friendship of mates
(2) Eating
(3) Playing and fighting
(4) All of these
2. Who is snug in mother’s bosom?
(1) The new born baby
(2) A child
(3) A boy
(4) A girl
3. What is the person attracted to most in adulthood?
(1) Studies
(2) Opposite sex
(3) Games
(4) Roaming here and there
4. We receive untold pleasures
(1) when we grow up
(2) when we become a parent
(3) a child achievements
(4) in misfortunes
5. Which line indicates the closeness of the baby to
mother?
(1) Warm embrace
(2) Snug in bosom
(3) Listening to mother’s heartbeat
(4) Fiery love
6. What does tempestuous mean?
(1) Stormy
(2) Testing patience
(3) Violent
(4) High in temper
Poem 12
Our constant march towards infinity,
Seems to have jeopardised the real identity.
What are we sent for?
Is it to experience the exuberance of Nature?
Or to plunge into an eternal race of rivalry,
Where a man devours his divine self,
And strives to show his supremacy.
Really a blind race, full of strife,
That has soaked the sap of human life.
O, Misguided soul,
Listen patiently the songs of divinity,
That’ll subdue the passion of brutality,
And lead you to the Great White Throne,
Which all of us must vie to own. Anonymous
1. Man is just running to get the most of worldly pleasures.
Amidst these he forgets
(1) his divine self
(2) his family
(3) his other priorities
(4) the society
2. What does the line, ‘March towards Infinity’ mean?
(1) Getting misdirected
(2) Lack of guidance
(3) Forwarding oneself to those means, which have no ends
(4) Proceeding towards God
3. The poet wants the man to listen to what kind of songs?
(1) Traditional songs
(2) Songs of divinity
(3) Eternal songs
(4) Patriotic songs
4. Life is like a fight, full of struggle; find the related line
in the poem.
(1) Has soaked the sap of human life
(2) And strives to show his supremacy
(3) Subdue the passion of brutality
(4) Really a blind race, full of strife
5. What is “The Great White Throne”?
(1) Place where God lives
(2) The ultimate place of being
(3) Door of salvation
(4) A very peaceful place
6. Instead of facing the eternal race of rivalry, a man
should?
(1) Jeopardise the real identity
(2) Experience the exuberance of nature
(3) Patiently listen the songs of divinity
(4) Should not march towards infinity
Poem 13
I want to hitch my wagon to a star,
I want to stem the tide of events,
I want to pluck out the stars from Heaven,
I want to check the movement of Heaven and Earth,
I want many a thing to do but fail, who am I then?
A bundle of desires and aspirations?
Is this all not a wild goose chase?
Certainly not; I am a dreamer living in my own ivory
tower,
The world outside me is a mirage,
An illusion, a deceiving elf,
Alluring me from all sides.
Who am I then?
I am what my dreams are,
I am what my longing and aspirations are,
What I feel is not confines to me alone,
I am the collective unconscious of the whole mankind;
I am an integral part of the world,
I am a part of the universal self,
I am a world without any border, without any territory,
Let all the men and women of the world unite,
Forgetting their race and religion,
Making this planet a heaven for each and all,
Let’s make the best of this opportune time come for us,
Know, then what you are and what you can give to this
world. Anonymous
1. What could be the nearest interpretation of the first
stanza?
(1) Wish to become the supreme power
(2) It is not in the capacity of a man to control the natural
events
(3) A man cannot become the universe
(4) One should not lead his life in egoistic behaviour
2. What should be our target as a part of human society?
(1) To make this planet a heaven for all
(2) To leave behind all the ill feelings
(3) To promote more of social feelings
(4) To curb egoism
3. In this poem, the poet is talking on behalf of
(1) the society
(2) his friends and fellow people in need of help
(3) poor people
(4) the whole of mankind
4. The moral of the poem is based on
(1) self realisation
(2) self motivation
(3) self understanding
(4) mankind
5. The word ‘mirage’ may also mean
(1) miracle
(2) mirror
(3) something illusory
(4) minor
6. Explain ‘wild goose chase’.
(1) Man keeps on running after something or the other
(2) One is just bothered about himself
(3) Don’t get bothered just about creating an image
(4) Try to curb the difference between humans
Poem 14
Every year they create ‘The Saviour
Maa Durga on lion
With her blood stained “Trishull
Piercing the rock chest
Of the dark demon Mahishasur
Intoxicated with the vintage of invincibility
Every year they worship ‘The Saviour’
Maa Durga on lion
As the winner of good over the bad
The dark demon Mahishasur
The image of all Evils
Misdirected ambitions and violence
Every year they have time enough!
To do injustice, and acts all nefarious
As the dark demon Mahishasur did.
They know they’ll get
Salvation for all their sins
By offering Pushpanjali on ‘Navmi’
And delve deep in the same,
And collect ‘Chanda’ to create
Mother Durga again. Anonymous
1. Why does a man offer prayers and flowers to God?
(1) With a view to get salvation
(2) To celebrate the day
(3) For the sake of enjoyment
(4) To lead a prosperous life
2. What does ‘invincible’ mean?
(1) Pertaining to old times
(2) Which cannot be convinced
(3) Easily conquered
(4) One which cannot be conquered easily
3. Explain, ‘To Create Maa Durga Again’.
(1) Next year the Goddess will be worshipped again
(2) People will get reason to celebrate and enjoy
(3) Man wil keep on repeating his mistakes
(4) Want for salvation
4. Suggest a suitable title for the poem.
(1) Vintage of Invincibility
(2) Maa Durga
(3) Pushpanjali on Navmi
(4) The Worshipped Sin
5. What lesson did Maa Durga teach by killing the demon?
(1) The powerful always wins
(2) Weak people will have to surrender one day
(3) Good always wins over the bad
(4) God is more powerful than demons
6. What is the irony mentioned in the last stanza?
(1) Man has been compared to a demon
(2) Man as a subject to injustice
(3) Man wants everything at any cost
(4) He is the meanest of all creatures
Poem 15
I wonder why the grass is green,
And why the wind is never seen?
Who taught the birds to build a nest,
And told the trees to take a rest?
O, when the Moon is not quite round
Where can the missing bit be found?
Who lights the stars when they blow out,
And makes the lightning flash about?
Who paints the rainbow in the sky,
And hangs the fluffy clouds so high?
Why is it now, do you suppose,
That Dad won’t tell me, if he knows? Jeannie Kirby
1. The poet is most likely to be
(1) a scientist
(2) a sago
(3) a hermit
(4) a chid
2. ‘o, when the Moon is not quite round’. The meaning of
this line is
(1) the Moon is rectangular
(2) the Moon is not visible in the Sky
(3) when the Moon is not moving
(4) when the Moon is not in its full shape
3. ‘When they blow out’-here ‘blow out’ means
(1) to move
(2) whistle
(3) to put out
(4) hit
4. The word ‘fluffy’ means
(1) condense
(2) dark
(3) soft and light
(4) low
5. What is the emotion that the poem displays?
(1) Anxiety
(2) Curiosity
(3) Passion
(4) Devotion
6. ……. if he knows?’-‘he’ refers to
(1) the poet
(2) God
(3) the poet’s father
(4) the reader
Poem 16
Halfway down the stairs
Is a stair
Where I sit.
There isn’t any
Other stair
Quite like it.
I’m not at the bottom,
I’m not at the top;
So this is the stair
Where
I always stop
Halfway up the stairs
Isn’t up,
Isn’t down;
It isn’t in the nursery,
It isn’t in the town.
And all sorts of the thoughts
Run round my head:
“It isn’t really
Anywhere!
It’s somewhere else
Instead!” AA Milne
1. The poet usually sits on stairs because
(1) he is alone
(2) he is very lazy
(3) he feels good there
(4) he has no other place to sit
2. “There is no other stair like it because
(1) it is at the top
(2) it is the most beautiful
(3) it is a magical stair
(4) it is in the centre
3. I’m not at ……… I always stop’.
These lines show that the poet
(1) is unambitious
(2) is overambitious
(3) is quite satisfied
(4) None of these
4. The poet sits on stairs
(1) to rest
(2) to think
(3) to have a nap
(4) to use its special powers
5. ‘It isn’t in the town’. Choose the interrogative
transformation of this sentence.
(1) Is it in the town?
(2) Is it not in the town?
(3) is not it in the town?
(4) Is it in the town not?
6. This poem is
(1) a satire
(2) a complex one
(3) a lament
(4) None of these
Set 17
May there always be tigers
In the jungles and tall grass
May the tiger’s roar be heard,
May his thunder
Be known in the land.
At the forest pool, by Moonlight
May he drink and raise his head
Scenting the night wind.
May he crouch low in the grass
When the herdsmen pass,
And slumber in the dark caverns
When the Sun is high.
May there always be tigers.
But not so many, that one of them
Might be tempted to come into my room
In search of a meal! Ruskin Bond
1. The poet wants the tigers to be
(1) everywhere
(2) in jungles
(3) in fields
(4) in his room
2. What does ‘his thunder’ mean
(1) tiger’s cry
(2) poet’s voice
(3) tiger’s roar
(4) cloud thunder
3. May he drink and raise his head’. Why would the tiger
raise his head?
(1) To show arrogance
(2) To look around
(3) To see the Moon
(4) To smell the air
4. ‘Crouch low in the poem means
(1) bend low
(2) ready to jump
(3) feeling sleepy
(4) walk slowly
5. Slumber means
(1) hide
(2) sleep
(3) warm
(4) shine
6. But not so many, (………) of a meal!’
These lines show
(1) poet’s sense of humour
(2) poet’s fondness for tigers
(3) poet’s wisdom
(4) poet’s arrogance
Poem 18
I lay in sorrow, in deep distress
My grief a proud man heard
His looks were cold, he gave me gold,
But not a kindly word
My sorrow passed-I paid him back
The gold he gave to me,
Then stood erect and spoke my thanks
And blessed his charity.
I lay in want, and grief and pain
A poor man passed my way.
He bound my head, he gave me bread,
He watched me night and day.
How shall I pay him back again
For all he did to me?
Oh, gold is great, but greater far
Is heavenly sympathy.
1. How did the proud man help the poet when he was ‘in
deep distress”?
(1) He gave him jewels
(2) He took him home
(3) He gave some money
(4) He pitied the poet
2. What was it he did not give the poet?
(1) Money
(2) Gold
(3) Food
(4) Sympathy
3. How did the poor man take care of the poet?
(1) The poor man gave him some money and food
(2) The poor man gave gold and kind words
(3) The poor man gave food to the poet and took care of
him day and night
(4) He took the poet home and bound his head which was
hurt
4. Which of the following statements is not true?
(1) The poet repaid his debt to the proud man by thanking
him
(2) The poor man blessed the charity of the poet
(3) When the poet was in sorrow he was given money
(4) The poet says he cannot repay the poor man for his
sympathy
5. Here ‘he watched me night and day’ means
(1) spending nights with the sick man
(2) take care of the sick man till he was well
(3) provided medicines to him
(4) just kept on looking at the sick man
6. The rhyming scheme found in the poem is
(1) AABB
(2) ABAB
(3) ABCB
(4) ABCD
Poem 19
Mothers are for loving you
If you’re good or bad.
Mothers are for sharing
Whatever makes you glad.
Mothers are for laughing
At your favourite jokes.
Mothers are for helping you
Get on with other folks.
Mothers are for telephones
When they ring
Mothers are for pushing
When you’re on a swing.
Mothers are for loving
When you snuggle up so tight.
Mothers are for kissing you
A sweet and kind good night. Dorothy Hewitt
1. Mother loves you
(1) if you obey her
(2) if you behave well
(3) if you work hard
(4) in any condition
2. ‘Whatever makes you glad’. Here ‘glad’ is
(1) a noun
(2) an adjective
(3) a verb
(4) a gerund
3. ‘Get on with other folks’. Here ‘get on’ means
(1) to obtain something
(2) to have a friendly relationship
(3) to discuss
(4) to achieve your aim
4. ‘When they ring’. Here ‘they’ stand for
(1) children
(2) mothers
(3) other folks
(4) telephones
5. In the poem ‘on a swing’ means
(1) changing opinion
(2) in a rhythm
(3) on a hanging seat
(4) turning suddenly
6. Snuggle means
(1) a warm comfortable position
(2) an unpleasant feeling
(3) a testing time
(4) to shiver
Poem 20
Those winter Sundays
Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on. in the blue black cold
then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the
weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one even thanked him
I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he’d call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house,
Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold,
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, What did I know
of love’s austere and lonely offices? By Robert Hayden
1. The word ‘too’ in the first line of the poem suggests
(1) continuity of action
(2) change of circumstances
(3) brevity of existence
(4) freezing of good fortune
2. What can be the theme of the poem?
(1) One gets disillusioned as one gets older
(2) As a child one always believed in unconditional love
(3) One appreciates paternal love only in hindsight
(4) It is difficult to come to terms with the fact that one has
grown up
3. The word ‘chronic’ suggests that is
(1) long lasting
(2) well considered
(3) hurried
(4) Unjustifiable
4. The indifference of the son can be equated with ……
(1) the harshness of the cold
(2) his father’s warm and loving actions
(3) his recollection of the times gone by
(4) the overcoming of cold by the blazing fire
5. What is the tone of the poem in the last 2 lines?
(1) Approbatory
(2) Rueful
(3) Remonstrative
(4) Audacious
6. The word ‘austere may also mean
(1) elaborate
(2) encouraging
(3) stringent
(4) sober
Previous Year’s Questions
Poem 21
On a Tired Housewife
Here lies a poor woman who was always tired.
She lived in a house where help wasn’t hired
Her last words on earth were : ‘Dear friends, I am going
To where there’s no cooking, or washing, or sewing,
For everything there is exact to my wishes,
For where they don’t eat there’s no washing of dishes.
I’ll be where loud anthems will always be ringing,
But having no voice I’ll be quit of the singing.
Don’t mourn for me now, don’t mourn for me never,
I am going to do nothing for ever and ever.’ Anonymous
[CTET June 2011]
1. The woman described in the poem
(1) lived in her own house
(2) worked in the house of a rich man
(3) was very busy doing chores
(4) was no more
2. The woman was always tired because
(1) she did all the household work without any help
(2) she had hardly anything to eat
(3) she was physically very weak
(4) she was suffering from a serious ailment
3. The woman wanted to go to a place where
(1) people would take good care of her
(2) people would sincerely mourn for her
(3) people didn’t sing or dance
(4) people didn’t cook, wash or sew
4. The woman’s account in the poem shows
(1) how a woman can escape from work
(2) how we should help each other
(3) how overworked a housewife is
(4) that there is no work in heaven
5. For everything there is exact to my wishes’. In this
line, the word ‘exact can be interpreted to mean
(1) according
(2) leading
(3) contrary
(4) contributing
6. The rhyme pattern in the poem is
(1) aa, bb, cc, dd, ee
(2) aa, ab, bc, cd, de
(3) ab, ab, ab, ab, ab
(4) aa, ab, cd, cd, ee
Poem 22
Night
The sun descending in the West,
The evening star does shine;
The birds are silent in their nest,
And I must seek for mine.
The moon, like a flower,
In heaven’s high bower,
With silent delight
Sits and smiles on the night.
Farewell, green fields and happy groves,
Where flocks have took delight.
Where lambs have nibbled, silent moves
The feet of angels bright;
Unseen they pour blessing,
And joy without ceasing,
On each bud and blossom,
And each sleeping bosom.
They look in every thoughtless nest,
Where birds are covered warm;
They visit caves of every beast,
To keep them all from harm.
If they see any weeping
That should have been sleeping,
They pour sleep on their head,
And sit down by their bed. [CTET Jan 2012]
1. The evening star rises when
(1) the sun descends in the West
(2) the birds leave their nests
(3) it is midnight
(4) it is dawn
2. Here, ‘bower’ represents
(1) a flower vase
(2) a potted plant
(3) a framework that supports climbing plants
(4) a bouquet of flowers
3. The poet compares moon to
(1) an angel
(2) a flower
(3) a bird in the nest
(4) an evening star
4. The angels come down on Earth to
(1) take blessing and joy
(2) spread moonlight
(3) give blessing and joy
(4) make people dance and have fun
5. Birds nest is described as thoughtless’ because
(1) the occupants are asleep without any care
(2) the angels are blessing the birds to be happy
(3) the birds are covered in the warmth of their nest
(4) it is made without any thought
6. The figure of speech used in the line ‘In heaven’s high
bower’ is
(1) simile
(2) metaphor
(3) personification
(4) alliteration
Poem 23
Human Nature
Is it human nature
to desire forbidden fruit,
to hunger for a blossom
so obsessed with passion
that we forget the pain,
which inevitably arises
once we tease ourselves
with the thought of it
or taste a tiny part of it,
and it becomes the predator
eating at us like a carnivore
that saves the head for last
savouring the brain to feed its own
and we, still craving illicit nectar
enjoying the fact that it is devouring us?
CJ Grant (CTET Nov 2012)
1. Another word in the poem that suggests ‘forbidden’ is
(1) obsess
(2) crave
(3) savour
(4) illicit
2. ‘It becomes the predator’ means
(1) strong emotions influence one negatively
(2) pursuit of happiness
(3) being cautious against outside influences
(4) being strong and positive against any threat
3. An example of personification in the poem is
(1) saves the head
(2) tease ourselves
(3) illicit nectar
(4) like a carnivore
4. ‘Eating at us like a carnivore’ refers to
(1) being attacked by a wild beast
(2) being attacked by a human enemy
(3) being eaten up by an unknown entity
(4) exerting a strong influence
5. ‘We, still craving illicit nectar’ can be explained by
focusing on the word
(1) we
(2) craving
(3) illicit
(4) nectar
6. A synonym for the word ‘savouring’ is
(1) smelling
(2) flavouring
(3) experiencing
(4) avoiding
Poem 24
Between the Miles
Because existence can become
severe in one day,
just sense me and I’ll be there
In the mind’s eye,
I’m not so far away.
If you hold out your hand,
in the whispers,
I’ll become the zephyr…
and besiege you.
If your eye’s upon the stars,
in the crystalline darkness,
I’ll become the moon.
And the light shall guide you.
If you rest upon the ground,
in the warmth,
I’ll become the grass
And embrace you.
If you turn outside,
in the wetness,
I’ll become the rain.
An upon your forhead, kiss you
If you free the air,
in the light of day,
I’ll become the Sun.
And smile for you.
Between the miles
if you need me
If you need a friend
Let me be the friend, I want to be.
Heather Stoop. [CTET July 2013]
1. The theme of the poem is about
(1) nature
(2) separation
(3) relationship
(4) travel
2. The ‘crystalline darkness’ suggests that surrounding is
(1) pitch dark and quiet
(2) black and sombre
(3) in the moonlight
(4) lit up by the stars only
3. In the poem, the poet suggests that friendship is
unaffected by
(1) differences in attitude
(2) individual independence
(3) changing feelings
(4) time and distance
4. “The zephyr’ is a
(1) gentle, mild breeze
(2) fine quality of cloth
(3) scent or odour
(4) strong stream of air
5. An example of a metaphor is
(1) ‘If you rest upon the ground”
(2) I’ll become the grass
(3) ‘Between the miles’
(4) ‘I want to be
6. A synonym of the word ‘besiege’ is
(1) trap
(2) surround
(3) attack
(4) befriend
Poem 25
Sprinkle, squish between my toes,
The smell of ocean to my nose.
I can feel each grain of sand,
It falls from air into my hand.
The shells I find along the shore,
Picked up by birds that fly and soar.
They sparkle like the ocean’s waves,
And carry sand from all the lakes.
I walk
That’s where my feet leave prints to be.
I walk all the way to the end of the land,
The land that holds this beautiful sand. Morgan Swain
[CTET Feb 2014]
1. The poem’s central theme is
(1) a factual description of nature
(2) sharing experiences with nature
(3) a recollection of a visit
(4) an introspection by the writer
2. Here, ‘to the end of the land’ refers to the
(1) sealine
(2) land
(3) sky
(4) horizon
3. Here, ‘That’s where my feet leave prints to be’ means
that the writer
(1) knows that everything is temporary
(2) relives past visits
(3) expects to forget the experience
(4) hopes to remember his visit
4. The phrase in the poem that conveys the same meaning
as ‘long the tip of the sea’ is
(1) each grain of sand
(2) end of the land
(3) air into my hand
(4) like the ocean’s waves
5. The poetic device used in the line “They sparkle like the
ocean’s waves’ is a/an
(1) hyperbole
(2) exaggeration
(3) simile
(4) allegory
6. A word that can replace ‘squish’ is
(1) crush
(2) hold
(3) scrunch
(4) trample
Poem 26
The Last Conqueror
Victorious men of Earth, no more
Proclaim how wide your empires are;
Though you bind-in every shore
And your triumphs reach as far
As night or day,
Yet you, proud monarchs, must obey
And mingle with forgotten ashes, when
Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.
Devouring Famine, Plague and War,
Each able to undo mankind,
Death’s servile emissaries are;
Nor to these alone confined,
He hath at will
More quaint and subtle ways to kill;
A smile or kiss, as he will use the art,
Shall have to cunning skill to break a heart. [CTET Sept 2014]
1.’……. servile emissaries’ means
(1) Risky behaviour
(2) Humble messengers
(3) Those who protect
(4) Messengers of peace
2. ‘More quaint and subtle ways to kill;
A smile or kiss, as he will use the art,’
-tells the reader that the speaker
(1) believes in human goodness
(2) is afraid of his enemies
(3) hates wars
(4) distrusts human nature
3. ‘……… the cunning skill’ refers to
(1) A weapon of war
(2) Skillful soldier
(3) A manipulative king
(4) Hidden threat
4. ‘……… mingle with forgotten ashes’ means
(1) dead persons
(2) fires on the battlefield
(3) threats to life
(4) hidden dangers
5. Here, ‘subtle’ means
(1) stupid
(2) hidden
(3) suggestive
(4) sullen
6. ‘And your triumphs reach as far As night or day
The noeti
-The poetic device found in these words is a
(1) pathetic fallacy
(2) metaphor
(3) simile
(4) formula
Poem 27
Invictus
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
ror my unconquerable soul.
In the tell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeoning ot chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond ths place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find, me unafraid.
William Ernest Henley
[CTET Feb 2015]
1. The phrase ‘unconquerable soul’ means a person who is
(1) invincible
(2) compassionate
(3) noble
(4) sensitive
2. Lines 5 and 6 show that the speaker
(1) refuses to surrender
(2) remains undaunted even under the worst circumstances
(3) is overwhelmed by adverse circumstances
(4) accepts lite’s challenges
3. ‘Wrath and tears means
(1) unbearable sutfering
(2) anger causing havoc
(3) anger and sorrow
(4) untavourabie circumstances
4. The phrase ‘menace of the years’ suggests
(1) threats of the times
(2) danger to life
(3) cruel tate
(4) evils of ife
5. The word ‘winced in the second stanza means
(1) recoiled
(2) ruffied
(3) rghtened
(4) worried
6. The poetic device used in ‘Black as the pit from pole to
pole is
(1) metaphor
(2) irony
(3) simile
(4) parallelism
Poem 28
So he spoke, mildly; Sohrab heard his voice
The mighty voice ot Rustum and he saw
His giant figure planted on the sand,
Sole, like some single tower, which a chief
Hath builded on the waste in former years
Against the robbers; and he saw that head,
Streak’d with its first grey hairs; hope filled his soul,
And he ran forward and embraced his knees,
And clasp’d his hand within his own,… [CTET Sept 2015]
1. The way Sohrab reacted when he saw Rustum shows
that
(1) he felt great love and admiration for him
(2) he was utterly contussed
(3) he was overcome Win griet
(4) he was enraged, when ne saw Rustum
2. The poet describes Rustums voice as
(1) booming
(2) shrill
(3) loud
(4) powerful
3. The figure of speech used in lines 3 and 4 is
(1) personification
(2) metonymy
(3) simile
(4) metaphor
4. Name the literary device used in
‘…….. he saw that head
Streak’d with its first grey hairs’
(1) Imagery
(2) Alliteration
(3) Simile
(4) Contrast
5. The encounter between Rustum and Sohrab took place
(1) on tne sea-shore
(2) in a desert
(3) in a valley
(4) in a forest
6. The description of Rustum’s physical appearance shows
that he was
(1) middle-aged
(2) a teenager
(3) young
(4) old
Poem 29
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, (1)
Stoll’n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! (2)
My hasting days tly on with full career,
But my late spring no bud or blossom shew’th.
Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth
That I to manhood am arriv’d so near,
And inward ripeness doth much less appear,
That some more timely-happy
spirits endu’th.
Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow,
It shall be still in strictest measure ev’n
To that same lot, however mean or high,
Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heav’n
[CTET Feb 2016]
1. The poet presents “Time as a/an
(1) enemy
(2) Spirit
(3) friend
(4) thief
2. The poet regrets that
(1) he has not attained inner maturity
(2) his teachers are not happy with his progress
(3) his academic progress has been very slow
(4) he is not popular with his peers
3. The poet envies his friends, because they
(1) have achieved name and fame
(2) are popular with their friends
(3) are blessed with robust health
(4) have attained inward ripeness
4. The inner maturity the poet longs for will come
(1) with the help of peers
(2) with the help of teachers
(3) by the will of God
(4) through hard work
5. The poet is…… about his future.
(1) pessimistic
(2) unconcerned
(3) cynical
(4) optimistic
6. The figure of speech’ used in lines (1) and (2) is
(1) personification
(2) a hyperbole
(3) an irony
(4) a simile
Poem 30
I cannot rest from travel: I will drink
Life to the lees: All times I have enjoy’d
Greatly, have suffer’d greatly both with those
That loved me, and alone, on shore, and when
Thro’ scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
Vext the dim sea: I am become a name
For always roaming with a hungry heart
Much have I seen and known; cities of men
And manners, climates, councils, governments,
Myself not least, but honour’d of them all;
1. The speaker can be described as [CTET Sept 2016]
(1) an adventurer
(2) a frolicsome person
(3) a vagabond
(4) a seeker after the truth
2. The expression, ‘drink life to the lees’ means
(1) to live a life of adventure
(2) to live life to the fullest
(3) to live a life of pleasure
(4) to face challenges bravely
3. Which of the following statements is true?
(1) He has suffered and enjoyed greatly.
(2) He has lost interest in life.
(3) The speaker is an aimless wanderer.
(4) His adventures have not changed his outlook.
4. The line, ‘Myself not least, but honour’d of them all’
reveals that the speaker is
(1) conscious of his merits
(2) arrogant
(3) prone to bragging
(4) a garrulous person
5. The figure of speech used in ‘drink life to the lees’ is
(1) personification
(2) assonance
(3) simile
(4) metaphor
6. Which literary device has been used in ‘hungry heart’?
(1) Alliteration
(2) Irony
(3) Assonance
(4) Simile
ANSWERS
Poem 1. 1. (2) 2. (1) 3. (3) 4. (1) 5. (1) 6. (3)
Poem 2. 1. (3) 2. (3) 3. (1) 4. (2) 5. (1) 6. (2)
Poem 3. 1. (1) 2. (4) 3. (2) 4. (3) 5. (3) 6. (2)
Poem 4. 1. (4) 2. (1) 3. (1) 4. (1) 5. (2) 6. (3)
Poem 5. 1. (4) 2. (1) 3. (1) 4. (1) 5. (3) 6. (3)
Poem 6. 1. (2) 2. (1) 3. (1) 4. (1) 5. (1) 6. (4)
Poem 7. 1. (1) 2. (2) 3. (1) 4. (3) 5. (3) 6. (3)
Poem 8. 1. (2) 2. (3) 3. (2) 4. (3) 5. (1) 6. (3)
Poem 9. 1. (3) 2. (1) 3. (2) 4. (4) 5. (2) 6. (1)
Poem 10. 1. (2) 2. (2) 3. (2) 4. (4) 5. (2) 6. (3)
Poem 11. 1. (4) 2. (1) 3. (2) 4. (3) 5. (3) 6. (3)
Poem 12. 1. (1) 2. (3) 3. (2) 4. (4) 5. (3) 6. (2)
Poem 13. 1. (2) 2. (1) 3. (4) 4. (1) 5. (3) 6. (1)
Poem 14. 1. (1) 2. (4) 3. (3) 4. (4) 5. (3) 6. (1)
Poem 15. 1. (4) 2. (4) 3. (3) 4. (3) 5. (2) 6. (3)
Poem 16. 1. (3) 2. (4) 3. (3) 4. (2) 5. (1) 6. (4)
Poem 17. 1. (2) 2. (3) 3. (4) 4. (1) 5. (2) 6. (1)
Poem 18. 1. (3) 2. (4) 3. (3) 4. (2) 5. (2) 6. (3)
Poem 19. 1. (4) 2. (2) 3. (2) 4. (4) 5. (9) 6. (1)
Poem 20. 1. (1) 2. (3) 3. (1) 4. (1) 5. (2) 6. (3)
Poem 21. 1. (4) 2. (1) 3. (4) 4. (3) 5. (1) 6. (1)
Poem 22. 1. (1) 2. (1) 3. (2) 4. (3) 5. (1) 6. (2)
Poem 23. 1. (4) 2. (1) 3. (3) 4. (4) 5. (3) 6. (3)
Poem 24. 1. (3) 2. (4) 3. (4) 4. (1) 5. (2) 6. (2)
Poem 25. 1. (3) 2. (1) 3. (4) 4. (2) 5. (3) 6. (4)
Poem 26. 1. (2) 2. (4) 3. (4) 4. (1) 5. (2) 6. (3)
Poem 27. 1. (1) 2. (2) 3. (3) 4. (1) 5. (1) 6. (3)
Poem 28. 1. (1) 2. (4) 3. (3) 4. (1) 5. (2) 6. (1)
Poem 29. 1. (4) 2. (1) 3. (4) 4. (3) 5. (4) 6. (1)
Poem 30. 1. (1) 2. (2) 3. (1) 4. (3) 5. (1) 6. (1)
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