Poem - 04
SONNET
Toru Dutt
Take turns with your partner
to ask or answer these questions. Explain to him/her why you think your answer
is correct Quote from the poem if necessary. Write down your answers.
1) Torn Dutt is taking a stroll amid the
trees in her garden. She sees “a sea of foliage”. What does she mean by “sea”
of foliage? Explain in your own, words.
Ans: Toru Dutt compares at the greenery surrounding
her garden with the sea is “a sea of foliage”. The sea has an unaltered green
colour, her garden is filled with various and energizing shades of green light
of tamarind tree and mango grove of deep green.
2) The greenery you are watching seems dull
if it is un _______
Ans: unvaried.
3) What does the phrase “not a sea of a dull
unvaried green” mean? Explain.
Ans: The phrase “not a sea of a dull unvaried
green” means only one kind of plant wherever like the ocean which stays
unaltered will be dull in a similar sort of plant will gives dull impression.
Yet, in the writer's garden there is blend of plants, tones and surfaces which
could be a sea of foliage around her garden which is awesome.
4) The poet gives one example of colour
contrast. What example is it?
Ans: The example is: a contrast is found in splendid red shade of
blossoms of the seemul tree which shocks one like the abrupt sharp solid of
trumpet.
5) Have you seen the bunches of leaves on a
mango tree? Are they all green? What about fresh bunches?
Ans: Yes, I have seen the bunches of leaves on a mango tree. No, all the
bunches of leaves on a mango tree are not all green. The fresh bunches are pink
in shading. The more seasoned are dim green. When the leaves become old then
bunch of leaves changes from pink to light green to dark green.
6) What “grey pillars” arise between the
mango and the tamarind trees?
Ans: “Grey Pillars” are referred
to palms which grow between the mango and the tamarind trees.
7) The poet says seemuls are startlingly red.
How does she explain their lurid brightness? What does she compare them with?
Ans: The poet compares when she hears trumpets
sound that the palms look like grey pillars between the mango and the tamarind
trees.
8) A sudden blare of a trumpet outside your
quiet room would startle you. The glaring red ____ of the ____ startled the
poet.
Ans: colour, seemuls
9) After describing some lovely scenes the
poet talks about the loveliest scene of all. What is it? Describe it in your
own words.
Ans: Bamboo tree growing towards the eastern
side of the garden, when the moon radiates through the bamboo trees the white
lotus looks life sliver cup, that particular scene inebriated by magnificence.
Thus it is the loveliest scene of all.
10) There are three Metaphors and three
similes in this poem. Find them. Talk to your partner about them. (Metaphor:
The use of words to indicate something different from the literal meaning;
Simile: Comparison of one thing to another)
Ans: Simile:
i) Red, red and starting like a trumpet’s
sound
ii) Palms rise like pillars grey
iii) Lotus looks like a silver cup.
Mataphor:
i) Sea of foliage
ii) One might swoon drunken with beauty
iii) And over the quite pools the seemuls
lean.
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