Poem
– 05
MODERN MACHINERY
Rudyard Kipling
I. Appreciation:
A. Answer the following questions
in a sentence or two each:
1) In the poem “We” refers to …………….
Ans:
“We” refers to machines.
2) How are the machines made?
Ans:
Minerals are extricated from mines. They are dissolved, formed, molded and
pounded to plan. They are cut, fled, tooled and measured to fit. Thus, the
machines are made.
3) What do the machines ask for
their survival?
Ans:
The machines request water, coal and oil for their endurance.
4) How long will the machines serve
us?
Ans:
Machines will serve us twenty four hours a day.
5) Pick out the action words
performed by the machines.
Ans:
The action words performed by the machines are: pull, haul, push, lift, drive,
print, plough, weave, heat, light, run, jump, swim, dive, fly, see, hear,
count, read and write.
6) What is the “Law” the machines
have to abide by?
Ans:
The “Law” the machines have to abide by is not built to follow a lie.
7) What can human beings do that
machines cannot?
Ans:
Individuals can think, feel, love, disdain, feel sorry for, comprehend and
pardon. Yet, the machines can't do these or show any sort of feeling since they
don't have a psyche/heart of their own.
B. Answer the following questions
in four or five sentences each:
1) “The machines are merciless” –
which lines suggest this?
Ans:
“But remember, please, the Law by which
we live,
We
are not built to comprehend a lie.
We
can neither love nor pity nor forgive,
If
you make a slip in handling us you die.”
2) “We are nothing more than
children of your brain”. Why?
Ans:
Machines don't have any sort of distinction. They are worked by man's details
to make a specific showing. Whatever might be the size, weight and intensity of
the machines they actually stay in the control of man. They are the posterity
of human insight.
3) In this poem, the poet
attributes one human quality to machines. What is it? Substantiate your answer.
Ans:
The capacity to talk. The machines reveal to us their own story. They uncover
their capacity to play out various capacities, and they additionally caution us
to be cautious while dealing with them.
V. Reading Activity:
Comprehend the story “Building Your
House” given and answer the questions that follow:
Building your house:
An elderly carpenter was ready to
retire. He told his employer-contractor of his plans to leave the
house-building business in order to live a more leisurely life with his wife
and enjoy his extended family. He would miss the pay cheque. The contractor was
sorry to see his good worker leave and asked if he could build just one more
house as a personal favour. The carpenter said yes, but over time it was easy
to see that his heart was not in his work. He resorted to shoddy workmanship and
used inferior materials. It was an unfortunate way to end a dedicated career.
When the carpenter finished his work, his employer came to inspect the house.
Then he handed the front door key to the carpenter and said, “This is your
house my gift to you.” How shocked the carpenter was! What a shame! If he had
only known he was building his own house, he would have done it all so differently.
1) Why did the carpenter want to
retire?
Ans:
The carpenter was old man and he needed to carry on with a comfortable
existence with his family.
2) What would he miss after his
retirement?
Ans:
He would miss the pay cheque after his retirement.
3) What did the contractor ask the
carpenter as a personal favour?
Ans:
The contractor demanded the carpenter to build a house as a personal favour.
4) How did the carpenter build the
house?
Ans:
The carpenter did it in a shoddy manner with inferior materials.
5) If the carpenter had known it
was his house, how would he have built it?
Ans: The carpenter would have
manufactured it utilizing great quality material. He would have utilized his
workmanship to the most extreme and assembled a decent house.
6) What is the lesson you learn
from this small story?
Ans:
We should accomplish our work with all the devotion and love regardless of who
we do it for or whatever might be the conditions.
VI. Writing Activity:
a) Write a paragraph of about
100-150 words on the topic “Home Appliances”.
Home
appliances are electrical/mechanical machines which achieve some family
capacities, for example, cooking or cleaning. Home apparatuses can be ordered
into significant machines, or white products, little machines, or earthy
colored merchandise and customer gadgets, or glossy merchandise. A significant
apparatus, or homegrown machine, is a huge machine which achieves some normal
housekeeping task, which incorporates purposes, for example, cooking, or food
conservation. Significant apparatuses, are separated from little machines since
they are huge, hard to move, and by and large fixed set up somewhat. Another
quality of significant apparatuses is that they may have generous power
necessities. Significant apparatuses incorporate coolers, fridges, clothes
washers, dish washers, forced air systems, water radiators, and so on. Little
homegrown apparatuses or earthy colored merchandise are convenient or
semi-versatile machines, by and large utilized on table-tops, ledges, or
different stages, to achieve a family unit task. Instances of earthy colored
products are: TV and remote sets, microwaves, espresso creators, and PCs.
Shopper gadgets are electronic hardware proposed for ordinary use, frequently
in diversion, correspondences and office profitability. Fundamental items
incorporate sound hardware, TVs, MP3 players, video recorders, blue ray
players, computerized cameras, camcorders, PCs, computer game consoles, phones
and cell phones. Home machines have progressively become increasingly more
noteworthy today since they can uphold various family works.
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