HEAVEN, IF YOU ARE NOT HERE ON EARTH
Kuvempu
Comprehension I
1) According to the poet, ‘heaven’ is
a) on earth b)
within us c) elsewhere.
Ans: a) on earth.
2) The poet finds god in
a) nature b)
earth c) temple.
Ans: a) nature.
3) What does the line ‘Heaven lies all over’ suggest?
Ans: Heaven isn't
somewhere else yet inside us and is everywhere on the world. Assuming we are
acceptable, that is paradise and in the event that we are awful that is hell.
Nature is additionally a paradise as we can and paradise in objects, like
trees, moon, and sands of grains and so on.
4) Who creates ‘heaven on earth’?
Ans: The poet creates heaven on earth.
5) How does the poet create heaven on earth?
Ans: The poet creates heaven on earth by guzzling the magnificence of
nature and spilling the nectar of paradise, on the earth, through his poetry.
6) What, according to Kuvempu, are only
figments of man’s imagination?
Ans: According to Kuvempu, ‘Heaven’, ‘God’, and ‘nymphs’ are not
tangible entities but are only figments of man’s imagination.
7) When, according to the speaker, can there
be no Gods?
Ans: If we ourselves cannot be gods, then there can be no gods,
according to the speaker.
8) According to the speaker, heaven is (a) on
earth (b) not on earth (c) beyond earth.
Ans: a) on earth.
9) Who creates heaven on earth?
Ans: The poet creates heaven on earth.
10) How does the poet imbibe and spill the
‘song of nectar’?
Ans: The poet imbibes the beauty
of nature through his eyes and spills the ‘song of nectar’ through his poetry.
11) When can there be no nymphs, according to
the speaker, in ‘Heaven, if you are not here On Earth’?
Ans: There can be no nymphs if we ourselves are not heavenly nymphs,
according to the speaker in the poem.
12) According to the speaker in ‘Heaven, If
You Are Not Here On Earth’ if we ourselves aren’t heavenly nymphs, the nymphs
are not (a) everywhere (b) nowhere (c) elsewhere.
Ans: c) elsewhere.
13) Who, according to the speaker, imbibes
and spills the song of nectar in ‘Heaven, If You Are Not Here On Earth’?
Ans: It is the poet who imbibes and spills the song of nectar, according
to the speaker in the poem.
14) What does the poet create on earth,
according to the speaker, in ‘Heaven, If You Are Not Here On Earth’?
Ans: According to the speaker in the poem, the poet creates heaven on
earth.
15) What quality of harvest causes heaven to
lie all over in ’Heaven If you are not here on Earth’?
Ans: In ‘Heaven, if you are not Here on Earth’, the splendor of harvest
causes heaven to lie all over.
Comprehension II
* Why does the speaker in 'Heaven, If You Are Not Here on Earth' say that heaven is nowhere else but on earth?
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* How according to the speaker can we create heaven on earth in the poem 'Heaven If You Are Not on Earth'?
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* Human effort alone can create heaven on earth. How is this brought out in 'Heaven, if you are not here on Earth'?
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* Describe the beauty in nature that makes the earth a 'heavenly abode'.
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* 'Heaven can be created on Earth', Justify with the Poet's point of view.
Ans: Kuvempu as a poet redefines the concept of heaven through different perceptive. He wonders that the much revered heaven, if not on earth, where else could be found? If the humans themselves by their thoughts, qualities and deeds cannot become Gods and nymphs, who else can be the gods and nymphs? He questions in uncertainty. One can attain divinity and inner beauty by one's actions and the wherever they are, that place truly becomes heaven. The poet describes nature in graphic detail and paints a beautiful picture with his words. The streams with a big roar rush along, making surf at the edges of waves when merging with the sea. The gentle sun tenderly spreads the sunshine over the verdant greenery and plants, enveloping them lovingly as if caressing with his soft touch. When we chance upon the fields, with their bumper yields under the moonlight, we also see the happy and lovely faces of the farmers. These sights make earth nothing but heaven. The poet takes in all these wonderful sights, assimilates their beauty, and in his colorful narrative, gives the essence of it all in words so that others can read and visualize the heaven on earth. The poet uses the traditional concept of heaven that can be reconstructed and reinvented by realizing that it can be created on the earth with human effort.
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* Describe how the poet visualizes heaven in nature in 'Heaven, If You Are Not On Earth'.
Ans: The poet tries to break the myth about heaven. He says that heaven is not an entity beyond the boundaries of earth which one can visualize after death. The poet describes the beauty of the earth by describing the fast flowing stream which roars and rushes down. He says that the sun shines tenderly on the gardens and makes the earth look like heaven. The fully grown crops which shine in the moonlight appear so beautifully like heaven and the poet who describes all this in his sweet nectar like song does create heaven on earth by his sweet words. The poet is moved by the tender sunshine, beaming moonlight, gushing streams, gardens, sight of harvest which adds to the beauty of the earth which is no less than heaven. Thus the poet imbibes and spills song of nectar and creates heaven with his writings.
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1) Describe the beauty in nature that makes
the earth a heavenly place.
Ans: The poet Kuvempu contends that we don't
have to look for heaven in the afterlife. We can appreciate the grand rapture
in taking a gander at Nature on this planet itself. The poet presents a lovely
depiction of nature's beauty. The poet unequivocally expresses that the
happiness that one encounters while taking a gander at the streams that are
jumping down, thundering from the highest point of the slopes, the waves that
come moving across the oceans conveying surf at their edges, the delicate beams
of daylight falling on the rambling green woodlands and the delicate sun
heating up the earth make this world a heavenly place.
2) Why does the poet feel that earth is more
beautiful than heaven?
Ans: As per
Kuvempu, there is no heaven in all actuality. Entities like 'God', 'Heaven',
and the nymphs are merely figments of man's creative mind. Every one of the
various types of nature like the green forests, the streams that jump down the
slopes, the waves that move across the oceans, the twilight evening, and the
quality of reap show up more lovely than the imaginary descriptions of the man.
Comprehension III
1) How does the poet explain the illusion of
heaven in the poem?
Ans: Kuvempu
considers concepts like ‘God’, ‘nymphs’ and ‘heaven’ as myths created by man. He
believes that if by any means 'heaven' exists it exists just on this planet and
no place else. To break the figment of paradise in man's brain, he presents
before us beguiling sights of nature and contends that nothing can be more
sublime than these types of nature. He makes an immediate location to nature
and pronounces that if paradise doesn't exist on the earth what other place it
would be able to be. He legitimizes his assertion alluding to the streams, the
waves, and the daylight. He says that the streams that jump down thundering
from the highest point of the slopes, the moving surf at the edge of the waves,
the delicate beams of daylight falling on the green forests, the delicate sun
warming the earth all these make the earth paradise.
2) How does the poem celebrate the power of
the poet?
Ans: Having contended
completely that if at all there exists a substance called heaven, it exists
just on this planet, the poet Kuvempu presents before the readers' delightful
sights of nature. In the last verse, the poet expresses that one sees lumps of
paradise lying all over in the magnificence of collect and of twilight. He
finishes up the poem celebrating wonderful ability. He says that the writer
appreciates seeing Nature, soaks up the beauty of nature and spills the nectar
of paradise, on the earth, through his verse.
