MP Board Class 11th General English Important Extracts from the Poems

MP Board Class 11th General English Important Extracts from the Poems

Read the following lines taken from your textbook carefully and answer the questions that follow: [2016]

My captain does not answer,
His lips are pale and still.
My father does not feel my arm,
He has no pulse nor will.

Questions :
(i) Who is the captain in above lines?
(ii) Why does he not answer?
(iii) What makes the poet think that the captain is dying?
Answers
(i) The captain is Abraham Lincoln.
(ii) Because he is dying.
(iii) The poet makes think that captain is dying by telling that his lips are pale and still, he does not feel the poet’s arm and he has no pulse nor will.

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2. I shall be telling with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence
Two roads diverged in a wood, and
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference. [2009]

Questions
(i) What does ‘diverged’ mean in the poem?
(ii) Find out the word that gives the meaning ‘deep breath’.
(iii) What does the poet mean by ‘I took the one less travelled by’?
Answers :
(i) Diverged means that the two roads go in two different directions.
(ii) sigh.
(iii) The road which is less travelled by denotes a less common path and the poet moved on the same path.

3. “Go not to the temple to put flowers upon the feet of God, [2015]
First fill you house with the fragrance of love.
Go not to the church to light candles before the altar of God,
First remove the darkness of sin from your heart.”

Questions :
(i) Find out the word from the lines which has the same meaning as “a holy table” in a Church.
(ii) What does the poet suggest to do before offering flowers to God?
(iii) Write the name of the poet.
Answers :
(i) altar
(ii) The poet suggests that we should first fill our house With the fragrance of love.
(iii) Rabindra Nath Tagore.

4. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down as far as could. [2009, 13]

Questions :
(i) Name the poet and the poem. [2009]
(ii) Count how many words represent numbers in the given lines. [2009]
(iii) Diverged means [2009]
(iv) What does the word ‘road’ stand for? [2013]
(v) Find out the word similar in meaning to ‘separated’ from the poem extract. [2013]
(vi) Where did the two roads diverge? [2013]
Answers
(i) The poet is Robert Frost and the poem is ‘The Road Not Taken’. 00 Two (Two, one).
(iii) Took different directions.
(iv) The word ‘road’ signifies a path which a man-needs to choose among the various choices available during his life.
(v) diverged.
(vi) Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.

5. How sweet is shepherd’s sweet lot,
From the mom to the evening he strays
He shall follow his sheep all the day
And his tongue shall be filled with praise.

Questions
(i) What does the ‘lot’ stand for?
(ii) What does the shepherd do all the day?
(iii) Give the opposite of ‘sweet’.
Answers :
(i) Luck.
(ii) Follows his sheep.
(iii) Bitter.

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6. For he hears the lamb’s innocent call,
And he hears the Ewe’s tender reply;
He is watchful while they are in peace,
For they know when their shepherd is nigh.

Questions :
(i) Write the name of the poem and the poet.
(ii) Give the antonym of peace.
(iii) Who is watchful?
Answers :
(i) Poem is ‘The Shepherd’ and poet is William Blake.
(ii) Disturbance.
(iii) The Shepherd.

7. Lo ! The trees of the wood are my next of kin.
And the rock alive with what beats in me.
The Clay is my flesh, and the fog my skin.
I am fierce with the gadfly arad sweet with the bee. [2009]

Questions :
(i) Write the name of the poem and the poet.
(ii) ………… are the nearest relatives of the nature. (Fill in the blanks)
(iii) Give antonym of ‘Dead’.
Answers :
(i) Poem is ‘Waves on the Sleepless Sea’ and the poet is Swami Ramtirtha.
(ii) The trees of the wood.
(iii) Alive.

8. O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
The ship has weather’d every rack the prize we sought is won.
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting.
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring. [2012]

Questions
(i) Meaning of ‘Keel’ is
(ii) ‘Ship’ is looking
(iii) How do people react as the ship approaches the port?
Answers :
(i) Structure on which the framework of ship stands.
(ii) Weather’d.
(iii) The people feel exulted when approaches the port.

9. The great dawn breaks, the mournful night is past,
From her deep age-long sleep she wakes at last !
Sweet and long-slumbering buds of gladness ope
Fresh lips to the returning winds of hope.

Questions
(i) The title of the poem is [2009, 14]
(ii) Name the poet. [2011, 14]
(iii) Find out the word from the lines given above which has the same meaning as ‘sad’. [2009, 11]
(iv) What does the poet mean by ‘The great dawn breaks, the mournful night is past’ [2009, 11, 14]
(v) What is meant by age-long sleep? [2014]
Answers :
(i) The Broken Wing.
(ii) Walt Whitman.
(iii) mournful.
(iv) The poet means that the days of slavery, for the country are over. The period of independence has come.
(v) Death.

10. “The flower is naught but the bloom of my love,
And the waters run down in the tune
I dream The Sun is my flower up hung above,
I cannot die though forever Death.” [2008, 10]

Questions :
(i) Write the name of the poem and the poet.
(ii) Give the opposite of love.
(iii) Who cannot die? Give the answer in one word.
Answers :
(i) The poem is ‘Waves on the Sleepless Sea’. The poet is Swami Ramtirtha.
(ii) Hate.
(ii) Nature.

11. “Shall spring that wake mine ancient land again,
Call to my wild suffering heart in vain?
Or fate’s blind arrows still the pulsing note,
Of my far-reaching frail unconquered throat?” [2009, 15]

Questions :
(i) Write the name of the poem and the poet.
(ii) What does ‘spring’ stand for?
(iii) Frail means
Answers :
(i) Poem is ‘Broken Wing’ and the poet is Sarojini Naidu.
(ii) ‘spring’ stands for freedom.
(iii) Weak and delicate.

12. Go not to the temple to light candles before the altar of God,
First remove that darkness of sin from your heart.
Go not to the temple to bow down your head in prayer,
First learn to bow in humility before your fellow men.

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Questions
(i) Name of Poem is
(ii) Altar of God means
(iii) What should we learn before bowing our heads in prayer?
Answer:
(i) True worship.
(ii) A raised platform before God.
(iii) Before bowing our head in pray we should leam to bow in humility before our fellow men.

13. And having perphaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there,
Had worn them really about the same. [2012]

Questions :
(i) The poet of this poem is
(ii) What does ‘it’ in second line stand for?
(iii) Why does the poet think ‘it’ better?
Answers :
(i) Robert Frost.
(ii) ‘It’ stands for the road.
(iii) The poet thinks ‘it’ better because it was grassy and wanted wear.

14. I cannot die, through for ever death
Weave back and fro in the warp of me.
I was never bom, yet my births of breath.
Are as many as waves on the sleepless sea. [2013, 16]

Questions
(i) Who was the poet and name the poem.
(ii) Give opposite of ‘always’ from the extract.
(iii) Why does the poet describe sea as sleepless?
(iv) What waves in the warp of nature.
Answers:
(i) SwamiRamtirtha(Poet)
Waves on the Sleepless Sea (Poem).
(ii) never.
(iii) He describes it so because its waves keep on rising and Ming day and night.
(iv) Death waves in the warp of nature.

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