FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH - KSEEB - CLASS 06 - COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS - POEM - MARCH

 

Poem – 01

MARCH

William Wordsworth

Exercises

Shall we talk a little about this poem?

1)  Complete these sentences with the best choice given

a) The poet is watching the scene from a place.
i) near a lake                                        ii) near a stream
iii) near a field                                     iv) on the top of a hill
Ans: ii) near a stream

 

b) In the first five lines of the poem the poet is speaking to
i) himself                                              ii) a companion
iii) two friends                                     iv) a group of people
Ans: i) himself

 

c) The ploughboy is making loud cries
i) to talk to the horses                       ii) to call out to other workers
iii) just to shout with joy                  iv) to give signals to the ploughman
Ans: iii) just to shout with joy

 

2) Talk to your partner about the points raised in the questions below, write down what you say:

a) Who are at work?

Ans: The oldest, the youngest with the strongest are at work.

 

b) Why are the cows not raising their heads?

Ans: The cows are not raising their heads because they are grazing.

 

c) What is the ploughboy doing?

Ans: The ploughboy is whooping-anon-anon on the top of the bare hill.

 

d) Why does the poet say that the snow is only on the top of the bare hill?

Ans: The poet says that the snow is only on the top of the bare hill because the snow has melted due to the spring season except the top of the bare hill.

 

e) Why is the poem called “March”?

Ans: The poem is called March because it is spring time and the poet describes the beauty of nature as he sees in the month. 

 

f) Pick out the rhyming words in the poem and write them down.
Ans:   crowing-flowing,                      twitter – glitter,

youngest-strongest,                   grazing – raising,

defected-retreated,                    ill-hill,

mountains – fountains,             sailing – prevailing.

 

Writing:

3) The poet uses two figures of speech a personification and a simile. Find them, Explain them in 6 to 8 sentences.

 

Simile: is a direct comparison of two things, places or persons by using like or as words.

Example:   Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated.

The rose is as red as blood.

 

Personification: Here human attributes applied to non living things. (A non-living thing is raised to the position of a person)
Example:   The wind slipped

The Greenfield sleeps in the sun.

Death lays its icy hands on kings and common man.

Truth sits upon the lips of a dying man.

 

a) Do the exercise given below working with your partner.

As we read this poem we see beautiful scenes of nature and rural land. Wordsworth makes us hear sounds of birds and voices of men, women, boys and girls are busy at farm work. One can imagine even the heavy breathing of cows as they graze ravenously. Wordsworth stands above and wonders on the change March has brought with it.