9th-Eng, Stanzas (Poems) Book-Beehive

9th-Eng, Stanzas (Poems) Book-Beehive

 

STANZA 1 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	Questions : (i) Name the poem and the poet. (ii) Where was the poet standing ? (iii) Why did he feel sorry ? (iv) Where did the poet look for long time ? (v) Find in the passage a word that means ‘took a turn’.
STANZA 2 Then took the other, 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.	Questions : (i) Which road did the poet take, first or the other? (ii) What was the condition of the road? (iii) Which road has a better claim for selection? (iv) What is the name of the poem? (v) What is the name of the poet?

 

STANZA 3 I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence; Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference.

Questions : (i) What is the name of the poem from which these lines have been taken? (ii) Who is the poet of these lines? (iii) How many roads diverged in a wood? (iv) Which road did the poet take? (v) What has made all the difference?

 

STANZA-4 Wind, come softly. Don’t break the shutters of the windows. Don’t scatter the papers. Don’t throw down the books on the shelf. There, look what you did — you threw them all down.

Questions: (i) Name the poem and the poet. (ii) How does the poet want the wind to come? (iii) What should the wind not do to the windows? (iv) What did the wind do to the books? (v) Find a word from the stanza which means ‘to spread in different directions’.

 

 

STANZA-5 The wind blows out weak fires. He makes strong fires roar and flourish. His friendship is good. We praise him every day.

Questions: (i) What does the wind do to weak fires?  (ii) How does the wind treat strong fires?  (iii) Whose friendship is being talked about? (iv) What is the central idea of these lines? (v) Who is 'He' referred to in the second line?

 

 

STANZA-6 When the humid shadows hover Over all the starry spheres And the melancholy darkness Gently weeps in rainy tears, What a bliss to press the pillow Of a cottage-chamber bed

Questions: (i) What does ‘humid shadows’ refer to? (ii) What are the ‘starry spheres’? (iii) How does the darkness feel to the poet? (iv) What gives ‘bliss’ to the poet? (v) Write the poem and poet name.

 

STANZA-7 When the humid shadows hover Over all the starry spheres And the melancholy darkness Gently weeps in rainy tears, What a bliss to press the pillow Of a cottage-chamber bed

Questions: (i) What does ‘humid shadows’ refer to? (ii) What are the ‘starry spheres’?  (iii) How does the darkness feel to the poet? (iv) What gives ‘bliss’ to the poet?  (v) Write the rhyming scheme of this stanza.

 

STANZA-8 I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

Questions: (i) Where does the poet want to go? (ii) What will the cabin be made of? (iii) How many bean-rows does the poet plan to have? (iv) What kind of sounds will he hear in the glade? (v) Find the word in the stanza which means ‘open space in a forest’.

 

STANZA-9 He came to the door of a cottage, In travelling round the earth, Where a little woman was making cakes,  And baking them on the hearth;

Questions: (i) Who is ‘He’ in the first line? (ii) Where did he reach during his travel? (iii) What was the little woman doing? (iv) Why did Saint Peter go to her? (v) Find a word which means ‘a fireplace’.

 

 

STANZA-10 Then he said, “You are far too selfish To dwell in a human form, To have both food and shelter, And fire to keep you warm.

Questions: (i) Why did Saint Peter call the woman selfish? (ii) What three things did the woman have that she didn't deserve? (iii) What was her punishment? (She was changed into a woodpecker). (iv) Find a word which means 'to live' (dwell). (v) Write name of the poem?

 

STANZA-11 Remember, no men are strange, no countries foreign Beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes Like ours: the land our brothers walk upon Is earth like this, in which we all shall lie.

Questions: (i) What should we remember according to the poet? (ii) What breathes beneath all uniforms? (iii) Who are referred to as ‘brothers’ here? (iv) Where will we all lie in the end?  (v) Find a word from the stanza that means ‘strange or unknown’.

 

 

STANZA-12 It takes much time to kill a tree, Not a simple jab of the knife Will do it. It has grown Slowly consuming the earth, Rising out of it, feeding Upon its crust...

Questions: (i) Is it easy to kill a tree? (ii) What does not kill a tree easily?  (iii) How has the tree grown? (iv) From where did the tree rise? (v) Find a word in the stanza that means ‘the outer layer of the earth’.

 

STANZA-13 So the root is to be pulled out — Out of the anchoring earth; It is to be roped, tied, And pulled out — snapped out

Questions: (i) What needs to be pulled out to kill a tree? (ii) What is meant by "anchoring earth"? (iii) How is the root pulled out? (iv) Find a word which means 'broken suddenly' (snapped). (v) What is the ‘earth-cave’?

 

 

STANZA-14 No motion has she now, no force; She neither hears nor sees; Rolled round in earth’s diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees.

Questions: (i) Who is ‘she’ in these lines? (ii) Why can she not see or hear?  (iii) What is ‘earth’s diurnal course’?  (iv) What does she move with now?  (v) Find a word that means ‘daily’.