GEOGRAPHY LESSON - FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH NOTES- CLASS 09

Poem- 07

GEOGRAPHY LESSON

Zulfikar Ghose

Comprehension:

C1. Read the poem silently and answer the following questions:

1) What did the poet see from the jet?

Ans: The poet saw the city had developed the way it had, seeing it scaled six inches to the mile from.

2) The words “haphazard” and “unplanned” are used to describe _______.

(a) the scale (b) the sky (c) the jet (d) the cities.

Ans: (d) the cities.

3) From high above the Earth, how did the cities appear to the poet?

Ans: From high above the Earth the cities appeared inevitable, haphazard, unplanned and without style. Man was attracted towards water (rivers) and started to live in the valleys with huge population.

4) From a higher altitude, what lesson could the poet learn about the cities?

Ans: The poet had learnt that man was attracted to water and started to live in the valleys, specially settled on river banks. Man had constructed boundaries surrounding him and it was unavoidable from a higher altitude.

5) According to the poet, what was in greater proportion on earth?

Ans: According to the poet the greater portion of the earth was covered by water.

6) According to the poet, what do men on earth do?

Ans: According to the poet, it was difficult to understand that men on earth hate each other and build walls across cities and kill each other. It was unavoidable to describe such possessions on earth.

C2. Discuss the following questions in groups and answer:

1) “From above, the city looked haphazard and unplanned”. Why do you think the city looked so?

Ans: People had constructed buildings, malls, offices, gyms, houses, monuments, etc. without any proper plan as they wished. So, from above the city looked haphazard and unplanned.

2) Geographically, what is the importance of rivers and valleys? Explain their importance with reference to the second stanza of the poem.

Ans: Water is very resource for not only human beings but also animals. Man attracted to water in the form of rivers, he started to live in the valleys. Many civilizations had started by the rivers banks. Rivers were used for irrigating their crops and drinking water. Same way valleys were utilized for cultivating crops and nibbling animals.

3) The last stanza shows the degradation of human nature. Do you agree with this view? Justify.

Ans: Nature has gifted us with unlimited resources but human beings don’t know value. Human beings from being were finding one or another way to fight with each other and degrade themselves. As it is correctly said, there is end for need but there is no end for greed. Men have found so reasons to hurt each other and kill each other. They have divided themselves on the basis of religion, status, wealth, community, and so on. There is no limit for hatredness. Grudge and jealous has made men lesser than animals in value. Even animals know value of everything but human beings knowing everything, they are deaf, dumb and blind. Such insanity had enforced them to build wall across cities and shows the degradation of human nature.

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