List of top English Questions on Poetry

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She enteres followed by a valet, carrying on his arm a big fur coat. She was not at all pretty, so seemed modest and quite shy. In the forge everything was just as it had been earlier in the evening. The master blacksmith and his apprentice still sat in their bench, and iron and charcoal still glowed in the furnace. The stranger had stretched oneself out on the floor and lay with a piece of pig iron under his head and his hat pulled down over his eyes. As soon as the young girl caught sight of him, she went up and lifted his hat. The man was evidently used to sleeping with one eye open. He jumped up abruptly and seemed to quite frightened. My name is Edla Willmansson said the girl.
Answer any two of the following questions in 40-50 words each:
How do 'denizens' and 'chivalric' add to our understanding of the tigers' attitudes in "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers"?
Read the following poetic extract and briefly answer the questions that follow :
Now we will count to twelve
and we will all keep still.
For once on the face of the Earth
let's not speak in any language,
let's stop for one second,
and not move our arms so much.
It would be an exotic moment
Without rush, without engines,
We would all be together
in a sudden strangeness.

Why does the poet want us to keep quiet?
Find at least one example of a poetic device from the above lines.
What does the poet mean by 'not move our arms'?
How could man achieve this 'exotic moment'?
Name the poem and its poet.
The rhyme scheme of the poem .................
Q.3 (A) Read activities: the following extract and do the given When God at first made Man, Having a glass of blessings standing by; Let us (said He) “pour on him all we can:” Let the world’s riches, which dispersed lie, Contract into a span. So strength first made a way; Then beauty flow’d, then wisdom, honour, pleasure: When almost all was out, God made a stay, Perceiving that alone of all His treasures Rest in the bottom lay. For if I should (said He) Bestow this jewel also on my creature, He would adore my gifts instead of me, And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature. So both should losers be. Yet let him keep the rest, But keep them with repining restlessness; Let him be rich and weary, that at last, If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast. God bestowed many good qualities on man. Refer to the poem and list any four of them:
What would the human being do if God gifted him with 'Rest'?

Read the extract and complete the activities given below:
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.

Read the extract and write the appreciation of the poem.
Weavers, weaving at break of day,
Why do you weave a garment so gay?
Blue as the wing of a halcyon wild,
We weave the robes of a new-born child.
Weavers, weaving at fall of night,
Why do you weave a garment so bright?
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.