Lesson-9 (POEM)
Summary/Note
Hery
Longfellow appreciates children in his poem. They are the sunshine to our life.
They make us happy and cheerful. If there
had been no children, the world would have become a desert. Children are
like birds that are always happy. The poet was sad thinking of his death.
However, he forgot all his worries in the company of the children. The poet
calls the children living poems. The gladness of their looks and their caresses
have no match. In short, all the happiness in the world is due to children.
There can be no life and no charm in life without children.
POEM
Stanza No. 1
Stanza No. 1
[edit]Word Meanings
1. Perplexed – Complicated, Puzzled
2. Vanish – Disappear
[edit]Question
and Answers
Q.1 What are the children doing?
Ans. The children are playing.
Q.2 What is the question that is
disturbing the poet?
Ans. The poet is disturbed by the
problems and difficulties in life.
Q.3 How has this question been
answered?
Ans. Seeing the children playing
happily and innocently, the poet does not feel that the difficulties are a
burden any more and this thus the question that have perplexed him have
disappeared.
[edit]Stanza No.2
[edit]Word Meanings
1. Ye – You ‘Ye’ is sometimes used
in poetry for “you”.
2. Swallow – A kind of small bird.
3. Brooks – Small streams
[edit]Question and Answers
Q.1 What does the poet mean by
saying that the children open the windows that look to the east?
Ans. Just as a sun gives warmth and
life to the earth so as a south of happiness is in the presence of children.
Q.2 With what does the poet compare
the thoughts?
Ans. The poet compares the thoughts
to singing swallows and flowing brooks.
Q.3 Why does he compare them so?
Ans. Singing swallows and following
brooks are objects of nature-happy and care free. In the same way the children
are untouched by the problems of modern living and are happy and care free.
[edit]Stanza No.3
[edit]Word Meanings
1. Autumn – Season before winter
when leaves turn yellow and fall.
[edit]Question and Answers
Q.1 How can the birds and the
sunshine be in the hearts of the children? What does the poet mean?
Ans. When the poet says that the
birds and the sunshine are in the hearts of children he means that they are
happy and care free.
Q.2 The poet says that the children
are thinking of the brooks while he is thinking of autumn. What does it mean?
Ans. The poet says that children are
thinking of brooks because they are young and free from worries and troubles.
He is in the autumn of life for he is old and heavy and approaching the end of his life.
He is in the autumn of life for he is old and heavy and approaching the end of his life.
Q.3 Is the poet using the word
autumn for old age?
Ans. Yes, he is using the word
autumn for old age. Autumn is the season before winter when the leaves turn
yellow and fall. In the same way in old age the body becomes weak and less active
and finally give way.
Q.4 What other words does the poet
use to show the coming of old age upon him?
Ans. The first fall of snow shows
the coming of old age upon him.
Q.5 How are the children different
from the poet?
Ans. The children are young and full
of life and energy, without a care in the world. While the poet is old, tired
and full of worries.
[edit]Stanza No. 5-6
[edit]Word Meanings
1. Tender – Delicate
2. Trunk – Main stem or part of a
tree, the thick bark of a tree.
[edit]Question and Answers
Q.1 What would happens to the trees
if there were no leaves?
Ans. If there were no leaves, the trees would lose their beauty, colour and life.
Ans. If there were no leaves, the trees would lose their beauty, colour and life.
Q.2 What would happen to us if there
were no children?
Ans. If there are no children, our lives would be dull, barren and absolutely lifeless.
Ans. If there are no children, our lives would be dull, barren and absolutely lifeless.
[edit]Stanza No. 7
[edit]Word Meanings
1. Whisper – To speak slowly
2. Atmosphere – Air
[edit]Question
and Answers
Q.1 Why does the poet ask the
children to come to him?
Ans. The poet asks the children to come to him so that h could get joy and happiness from their company and for the time being forget about his worries and troubles.
Ans. The poet asks the children to come to him so that h could get joy and happiness from their company and for the time being forget about his worries and troubles.
Q.2 What songs does the poet wish to
be whispered in the ear?
Ans. The poet loves to hear the innocent talk of the children and asks them to come to him so that he could enjoy their natural sincere hatter.
Ans. The poet loves to hear the innocent talk of the children and asks them to come to him so that he could enjoy their natural sincere hatter.
[edit]Stanza No. 8
[edit]Word Meanings
1. Contriving – Devices, invention
2. Wisdom – Quality of being wise.
3. Caresses – Love or affection,
kiss, embrace
[edit]Question
and Answers
Q.1 The grown up people have wisdom
and books. What do the children have?
Ans. The children have innocent
happy looks and are full of affection
and warmth.
[edit]Stanza No. 9
[edit]Word Meanings
1. Ballads – Simple songs with a
story, poems containing old stories.
[edit]Question and Answers
Q.1 With what does the poet compare
the children?
Ans. The poet compare the children
with ballads.
Q.2 How can the children can be like
the ballads and the poems?
Ans. Ballads and the poems give one
phase and happiness. In the same way children are source of joy and happiness.
Q.3 The poet call the children
living and the rest all dead. Why does he say this?
Ans. Ballads and poems consist only
of words, where as children are living human beings and are full of life and
energy.
Q.4 How are children important for
elders?
Ans. Children are important for
elders because without them life would be dull and their care free and their
happy ways help elders to forget there troubles, their caresses brings sun
shine in to the life of the old people.
Where is Stanza 4???
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