THE SONG OF INDIA
POEM - 4
KARNATAKA CLASS 10 ENGLISH SOLUTIONS 4
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, NOTES, SUMMARY
MULTIPLE CHOICE
QUESTIONS
1) The poet uses
all of the following techniques except
a) Dialogue b) Contrast
c) Refrain d) Exaggeration
Ans:
d) Exaggeration
2) The poem does
not end with a note of
a) sarcasm b) pessimism
c) optimism d) fanaticism
Ans:
d) fanaticism
3) Who is the poet of The
Song of India?
a) Rabindranath Tagore b) V.K. Gokak
c) Sarojini Naidu d) Toru Dutt
Answer: b) V.K. Gokak
4) What type of poem is The Song of India?
a) Patriotic poem b)
Romantic poem
c) Humorous poem d) Nature
poem
Answer: a) Patriotic poem
5) Who does the poet address in the poem?
a) His mother b)
Mother India
c) The sun d)
His teacher
Answer: b) Mother India
6) What does the poet want to write about first?
a) The mountains b)
The Motherland
c) The rivers and forests d) The
freedom struggle
Answer: c) The rivers and forests
7) The poem compares India to a _______.
a) Soldier b)
Garden
c) Temple d)
Bird
Answer: c) Temple
8) What do the Himalayas stand for in the poem?
a) Beauty and strength b)
Weakness
c) Poverty d)
Darkness
Answer: a) Beauty and strength
9) Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the poem?
a) Himalayas b) Deserts
c) Industries d)
Freedom fighters
Answer: b) Deserts
10) The poet speaks of the saints, seers, and prophets of
India to show ______.
a) India’s wealth b)
India’s spirituality
c) India’s problems d)
India’s economy
Answer: b) India’s spirituality
11) The poet also talks about India’s _______ and hardships.
a) Freedom b)
Suffering
c) Festivals d)
History
Answer: b) Suffering
12) That vision does Mother India show the poet at the end?
a) A land of dreams b) A
garden of joy
c) A clear dawn of the future d) A
battlefield
Answer: c) A clear dawn of the future
13) The word “Song” in the title mainly stands for _______.
a) Happiness b)
Worship
c) Praise of India d)
Music and dance
Answer: c) Praise of India
14) What is the central theme of The Song of India?
a) Love for nature b)
Love for the motherland
c) Love for history d)
Love for music
Answer: b) Love for the motherland
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN A WORD OR A
SENTENCE EACH:
1) Which
snow-peaked mountains are being referred to in the poem ‘The Song of India’?
Ans:
The Himalayas.
2) Name the book
that the Mother writes.
Ans:
The Book of the Morrow.
3) Who wrote the poem The
Song of India?
Answer:
V.K. Gokak.
4) Whom does the poet address in the poem?
Answer:
Mother India.
5) What does the poet want to write about first?
Answer:
Rivers, forests, and hills of India.
6) What do the Himalayas symbolize in the poem?
Answer:
Beauty and strength.
7) Who are the “seers, sages, and prophets” referred to in
the poem?
Answer:
The spiritual leaders of India.
8) What is India compared to in the poem?
Answer:
A temple.
9) What kind of poem is The Song of India?
Answer:
A patriotic poem.
10) What does the poet mention about India’s suffering?
Answer:
The poverty and hardships of her people.
11) What vision does Mother India show at the end of the
poem?
Answer:
A clear dawn of the future.
12) What is the central theme of The Song of India?
Answer:
Love and praise of the motherland.
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING
QUESTIONS IN 2-3 SENTENCES EACH:
1) Why did the children have to die to call the
Mother their own?
Ans:
The children gave up their lives during the freedom
fight against the British, who had taken control of India. It is sad and ironic
that the children had to fight to call their own motherland theirs. This shows
that we had to win back our own country after being ruled by the British.
2) How does the poet praise India being developed in
industry and technology?
Ans:
The poet is happy to praise an India that is growing
in industry and technology. He has seen dams, lakes, steel factories, and
shipyards. He believes that the hardworking people of India can make the
country proud and lead it into the modern atomic age.
3) What does the poet V.K. Gokak want to sing about
his Motherland?
Ans:
The poet wishes to praise Mother India. He wants to
sing about the snow-covered Himalayas that guard the nation, the three seas
that surround and make India a peninsula, and the sunrise that brings a new day
after the dark night.
4) Identify the
two speakers in the Poem, what does the speaker want to sing about?
Ans:
The two speakers are the poet and his mother. The poet or offspring wanted to
sing about his country for his mother India.
5) What are the epics? Why does the poet call the
temples as ‘epics in stone?’
Ans:
Epics are long poems that come from old traditions.
They tell about the brave actions and adventures of heroes, legends, or the
history of a nation. The poet calls temples “epics in stone” because every
temple tells a story. The walls of the temples have many carvings and
sculptures that also share different stories.
6) Who does the
poet mean by ‘of your children that died to call their own’?
Ans:
The Soldiers who guard our mother and motherland are mother’s children and they
sacrificed their lives for the sake of their motherland. So they are her own.
7) What,
according to the poet, is the contribution of the seers and prophets?
Ans:
The seers and prophets have contributed their valuable lessons and experiences
to others.
8) Why is the poet ‘querulous’? What does he want to
do?
Ans:
The poet wanted to sing about the success and
progress of the people of India. He asked his motherland if she wanted him to
sing about dams, lakes, steel factories, or the atomic age. But the mother told
him to sing about the struggles and the leaders who rose from those struggles.
So, the poet, in a complaining tone, asked if there was no song he could sing
for her with full heart, a song that was pure and would be remembered forever.
9) How is he answered? Describe the vision. (Refer stanza 4)
Ans: The poet received a wonderful vision of a bright
future. In this vision, he saw Mother India rising beautifully against the blue
sky. The three white oceans — the Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, and Indian Ocean
— moved calmly with great power. Their waves shone with light and made the
mother glow. In this shining light, she seemed ready to write a new book of
life — a new rule, a new future.
She
saw a new destiny, bright like the Sun-god, who removes darkness with his
strong rays. This future would remove the pain and suffering of her people. It
would come like a fresh morning. In this new future, all sorrows and troubles
would vanish like a bad dream. This bright future would be like a helping hand
that saves her children.
10) What do the
night, the sun god and the clear dawn represent?
Ans:
Here the night represents all sorrow the Sun God represents the hand that saves
and clear dawn represent the bright future and calmness and the good things.
READ AND
APPRECIATE
1) What is the picture of India that you get in
stanza 1 of the poem?
Ans:
In the first stanza, India is shown with both good
and bad sides. The country is described as beautiful with the great Himalayas,
vast seas, and the bright sunrise. But this beauty is broken by the presence of
poverty and misery everywhere. So, Mother India tells the poet that he cannot
sing only songs of praise without also remembering these problems.
2) How does the poet describe the Mother’s anger?
Name the figure of speech used in stanza 2.
Ans: The
poet compares the Mother’s anger with two things. He says her angry words
sounded in his ears like the loud ringing of a bell. He also says they moved
around him like big white birds. In this way, the poet shows her anger using
both sound (hearing) and sight (seeing) images.
3) Explain the lines ‘A song bathed in the stainless
blue un vaporing in the void.’
Ans:
‘Stainless blue’ means the clean and clear sea. It
is used as a metaphor for a song of pure happiness without any sadness. The
phrase ‘Unvapouring in the void’ means clear and bright, without mist, in the
open sky. Altogether, these words suggest that it is possible to sing a song of
pure joy, free from ugliness and doubts.
4) What does
‘the Motherland writing the Book of the Morrow’ signify?
Ans:
It means the poet’s desire or wash was the motherland or mother sitting on the
throne and write the future of our country. She wrote in the book of the
morrow. Which signifies the earth’s destiny.
5) Write in brief your vision of the future of India.
Ans: The poet says that the future of our country
is written on the mother’s forehead. It shows the destiny of the land. All
sorrows and suffering will end, and new hopes and ideas will make people happy.
The Sun God will protect and save the earth. The poet dreams of a bright future
for India. He imagines an India where everyone works hard for the country’s
progress. All Indians should live happily and peacefully with each other. There
should be no discrimination, and everyone must be treated equally.
ANSWER THE
FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN 5-6 SENTENCES EACH:
How does the poem present the ills or problems
affecting our country?
Ans:
The poem shows both the strengths and weaknesses of
India. The poet speaks of India’s strengths as reasons to praise the
motherland, while the Mother points out its problems as obstacles to progress.
Together, these two voices show that India has reasons to be both proud and
ashamed. India has natural resources, hardworking people, patriotism, beautiful
temples, and modern technology. At the same time, it also has beggars, lepers,
dirt, ignorance, and strikes. For every good thing, there is something bad; for
every healthy part, there is something unhealthy. The poet uses these contrasts
to show the mixed reality of India.
SUMMARY
This
is one of the famous poems of the poet. Although he was a poet, he was also a
patriotic person. The poem is simple, where the poet talks to his motherland.
The language flows like a conversation between the poet and their mother. The
poet asks the mother what kind of song she wants to hear. They suggest singing
about the Himalayas with their snow-covered peaks, the three great oceans — Bay
of Bengal, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean — or the beautiful golden sunrise.
The
mother, in a calm voice, tells him to sing about the beggars, lepers, and the
poor, or about crowded streets, dirty places, and secluded areas. The poet
ignores this and asks again, offering to sing about rock-cut temples, epics in
stone, sacrifices of her children, great prophets, or famous pilgrims.
Hearing
this, the mother becomes upset and angrily tells him to sing about the millions
who toiled, the old, the helpless children, and the meek who lived in dark
places. This makes the poet emotional; the words sound like a bell and fly
around like a great white bird. He nervously asks again what kind of song she
likes.
He
offers to sing about dams, lakes, steel mills, shipyards, new technologies, or
important events. The mother refuses and says he should sing about early
strikes, brave men, their goals, achievements, and class struggles. The poet
complains, asking if he can sing a pure and wholehearted song. He sings, and
the song shines like the stainless blue, pure and touching.
At that moment, the mother rises in an extraordinary scene. Decorated by the blue sky, she sits on a throne, surrounded by white oceans, whose waves move with power. She opens the book of tomorrow. Her forehead shows Earth’s destiny. The Sun God removes all sorrows. A clear dawn comes, chasing away nightmares. Sunlight touches leaves, flowers, and plants, making nature beautiful. The poet shows that a time will come for new ideas, and he encourages hope and progress.
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