FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH - KSEEB - CLASS 07 - COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS - SONNET

 

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.