Updated
on 17/08/2024
1. The Road
Not Taken (Robert Frost)
1. Who is the poet of this
poem?
Ans. Robert Frost
2. How many roads were there?
Ans. Two roads
3. Where does the traveler find himself?
Ans. Where two road
diverged
4. What was the problem before the poet?
Ans. To choose one road
out of two
5. Why did the poet feel sorry?
Ans. That he could not
travel both the roads
6. Which road did the poet adopt?
Ans. That was less
traveled by
7. Why had the second road better claim?
Ans. Because it was grassy
and it wanted wear
8. Why were both the roads equally lay that morning?
Ans. Because no step had
trodden them back
9. What made all the difference in his life?
Ans. He had made the wrong
choice
2.
Wind (Subramania Bharati)
1. Who is the poet of this
poem?
Ans. Suburamania Bharati
2. When does the wind cause a lot of destruction?
Ans. When it blows
strongly
3. What does ‘crumbling hearts’ refer to?
Ans. To weak persons
4. Who does the wind make fun of?
Ans. The weak
5. What does the poet ask the wind to do?
Ans. To blow softly
6. What did the wind tear?
Ans. The pages of the
books
7. What does the wind do when it blows strongly
Ans. It breaks
the shutters of the windows, scatters the papers and throws down the
books on the shelf
8. What did the wind bring?
Ans. Rain
9. What does the wind make fun at?
Ans. Fun at all weaklings
10. How should we build homes?
Ans. Strong homes
11. Can we control the wind?
Ans. No
3.
Rain on the Roof (Coates Kinney)
1. Who is the poet of this
poem?
Ans. Coates Kinney
2. What does the poet like to do when it rains/
Ans. Press the pillow of a
cottage-chamber bet & lie listening to the patter of the soft rain overhead
3. To regard the darling dreamers’. Who were the darling dreamers?
Ans. His mother’s children
4. Who comes in the memory of the poet?
Ans. His mother
5. What does the poet attach the darkness with?
Ans. Sadness
6. What tinkles on the shingles?
Ans. Rain drops
7. Where is the rain making a noise?
Ans. On the roof
8. Who are the darling dreamers?
Ans. The poet and his
brothers
9. What does the poet listen?
Ans. Sweet music of rain
drops
10. Where is the poet’s mother now?
Ans. She had died
11. Is the poet’s mother still alive now?
Ans. No, his mother is not
alive
4.
The Lake of Innisfree (W.B. Yeats)
1. Who is the poet of this
poem?
Ans. W. B. Yeats
2. What kind of place is Innisfree?
Ans. Beautiful and lovely
3. Where does the poet wish to go?
Ans. To Innisfree Island
4. How are the evenings at that land?
Ans. Full of small birds
5. What does he hear in the deep core of his heart?
Ans. The sound of lake
water
6. What do the crickets do?
Ans. They sing at midnight
7. How long the poet will live at the Lake Isle of Innisfree?
Ans. For ever
5.
A Legend of the Northland (Phoebe Cary)
1. Who is the poet of this
poem?
Ans. Phoebe Cary
2. Which country does this legend belong to?
Ans. To Northland
3. How did the Northland children look in their furry clothes?
Ans. Like bear’s cubs
4. What animal is found mainly in Northland?
Ans. Reindeer
5. What are the sledges?
Ans. Snow carts
6. Why was St. Peter faint?
Ans. He was faint with
fasting
7. What was the little woman doing?
Ans. She was baking cakes
8. What did Saint Peter ask for?
Ans. For a piece of cake
9. Who was very selfish?
Ans. The woman
10. Where did the woman put the cakes?
Ans. On the shelf
11. How did Saint Peter punish the selfish woman?
Ans. He cursed her to be
changed into a bird
12. What was the woman changed into?
Ans. Into a woodpecker
13. From where did she fly out?
Ans. She flew out of the
chimney
14. What was the colour of the cap on her head?
Ans. Scarlet
15. What has every schoolboy seen?
Ans. A woodpecker
16. What does the woodpecker do all the day?
Ans. Keeps boring the
trees for food
6.
No Men Are Foreign (James Kirkup)
1. Who is the poet of this
poem?
Ans. James Kirkup
2. What message does the poet convey?
Ans. Peace and harmony
3. Who misguide us sometimes?
Ans. Anti-social elements
4. Who are aware of sun, air and water?
Ans. All human beings
5. What are all men fed by?
Ans. By peaceful harvests
6. Which thing is common in every country?
Ans. Life
7.
The Duck and the Kangaroo (Edward Lear)
1. Who is the poet of this
poem?
Ans. Edward Lear
2. Who praised a Kangaroo?
Ans. A duck
3. Where could the Kangaroo hop?
Ans. Over the fields and
over the water
4. Where did the Duck live?
Ans. In a nasty pond
5. How is the Duck’s life in a pond?
Ans. Boring
6. What does the Duck wish?
Ans. To hop like the
Kangaroo
7. What request did the Duck make to the Kangaroo?
Ans. A ride on his back
8. How were the Duck’s feet?
Ans. Wet and cold
9. How many times did they hop the whole world round?
Ans. Three times
10. What had he bought for his web-feet?
Ans. Four pairs of worsted
socks
8.
On Killing A Tree (Gieve Patel)
1. Who is the poet of this
poem?
Ans. Gieve Patel
2. Can we kill a tree just with a simple jab of knife?
Ans. No
3. How does a tree grow up?
Ans. By consuming the
earth
4. What does it absorb for years?
Ans. Sunlight, air and
water
5. How should we kill a tree?
Ans. By hacking and
chopping it
6. What is the meaning of ‘miniature boughs’?
Ans. Small branches
7. What is the source of the strength of a tree?
Ans. Root
8. Where does the root remain hidden for years?
Ans. Under the earth
9. Name the most sensitive part of the tree?
Ans. Its root
10. How is the strength of the tree exposed?
Ans. By pulling out its
root
9.
The Snake Trying (WWE Ross)
1. Who is the poet of this
poem?
Ans. W.W.E. Ross
2. What is the snake trying to escape from?
Ans. From the pursuing
stick
3. Where does the snake go?
Ans. Through the water
4. Where is he going?
Ans. Into the reeds
5. Of what size and colour is he?
Ans. Small size and green
colour
6. Where was he lying?
Ans. On the sand
7. Of what colour are the reeds?
Ans. Green colour
8. Is it a harmful snake?
Ans. No
9. Where does the snake vanish?
Ans. In the ripples
10.
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal (William Wordsworth)
1. Who is the poet of this
poem?
Ans. William Wordsworth
2. What can’t the poet feel now?
Ans. Human fears
3. What has happened to the poet’s beloved?
Ans. She is dead
4. What does the poet’s beloved move with?
Ans. With rocks, stones
and trees
5. Has the poet’s beloved any motion now?
Ans. No
6. Why can’t she hear or see?
Ans. Because she is dead