OFF TO OUTER SPACE TOMORROW MORNING
POEM 8
KSEEB SSLC CLASS 10 ENGLISH SOLUTIONS
MULTIPLE CHOICE
QUESTIONS
1) Off to outer
space, tomorrow morning was the poem written by ____
a. Leonore Marshall b.
Rock Saumure
c. George Bernard Shaw d.
Norman Nicholson
Ans:
d. Norman Nicholson
2) You can start
the _____
a. television b.
space travel
c. count down d.
writing
Ans:
c. count down
3) You can take
a _____
a. last look b.
plastic look
c. book d.
helmet
Ans:
a. last look
4)You can pass
me my _____
a. book b.
hook
c. helmet d.
telephone book
Ans:
c. helmet
5) You can cross
out ____
a. my name b.
wishes
c. my book d.
writing
Ans:
a. my name
6) I’m off to
outer space tomorrow _____
a night b.
morning
c. evening d.
noon
Ans:
b. morning
7) There won’t
by any ____
a. hotels b.
houses
c. calendar d.
friends
Ans:
c. calendar
8) There won’t
be any ____
a. switch b.
lock
c. knock d.
clock
Ans:
d. clock
9) Daylight with
be on the ____
a. sky b.
switch
c. head d.
floor
Ans:
b. switch
10) I’ll doze
when I’m _____
a. sleepy b.
tired
c. happy d.
sad
Ans:
a. sleepy
11) I’ll wake
without a ___
a. alarm b.
call
c. knock d.
round
Ans:
c. knock
12) I’ll be
writing no, ___
a. lessons b.
letters
c. poems d.
mail
Ans:
b. letters
13) Nobody
visits me and not a _____ in hail
a. friend b.
guest
c. relatives d.
person
Ans:
a. friend
14) In solitary
_____ as complete as any gaol
a. prison b.
confinement
c. goal d.
space
Ans:
b. confinement
15) When my ____
door is sealed
a. wooden b.
iron
c. capsule d.
new
Ans:
c. capsule
16) With the
teacups circling ____ me like the planets
a. round b.
back
c. turned d.
around
Ans:
a. round
17) I’ll be
center of my ____ a universe of one
a. place b.
home
c. space d.
gravity
Ans:
d. gravity
18) You can
watch on ____
a. movies b.
the play
c. television d.
dance
Ans:
c. television
19) Tracking
through your ____
a. line b.
way
c. path d.
telescope
Ans:
d. telescope
20) You needn’t
think I” give a _____
a. damn b.
helmet
c. gift d.
surprise
Ans:
a. damn
21) When the
rockets ____ me on my trans-galactic hop
a. follow b.
move
c. pull d.
thrust
Ans:
d. thrust
22) With twenty
hundred _____ before the first stop
a. light-years b.
million
c. dollars d.
rupees
Ans:
a. light-years
23) Every ____
on the earth can go and blow your top
a. one b.
soul
c. body d.
person
Ans:
b. soul
24) Daylight
will be on the switch and ______ under lock.
a. summer b.
rainy
c. winter d.
daily
Ans:
c. winter
ANSWER THE
FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN 2-3 SENTENCES EACH:
1) Why does the poet say ‘you can take a last look’
and ‘you can cross out my name in the telephone book’?
Ans: The
poet may be speaking these lines both jokingly and seriously. In the first
case, looking at the happy tone of the poem, we can say it is his way of saying
farewell. Since it is a space trip, he would not be in touch with his close and
dear ones. So he tells them to take one last look and strike his name from the
phone book. Yet, we cannot leave out another serious meaning. Perhaps in his
heart, the speaker feels unsure if he will return, as anything may happen to
him. So he may softly point to this sad chance.
2 )‘Space’ and ‘confinement’ signify concepts that
are opposite. Why does the poet choose to talk about ‘solitary confinement’ in
‘outer space’?
Ans:
Space is endless, huge and wide. But, unlike on
earth, nobody can move about freely in space. A person has to stay only inside
the spaceship. That is the reason the poet calls his life in the spaceship a
lonely prison.
3) Why does Norman Nicholson feel that he is
imprisoned in space?
Ans:
The speaker would be fully separated from the world.
No one would come to meet him and he would have no friend beside him. He would
not send letters and he would not get any. He would live just like a captive.
4) The speaker in ‘Off to Outer Space Tomorrow
Morning’ is uncertain of his return. How does he express this?
Ans: The
speaker says that people may take one final look at him as he is ready to
travel to outer space. The word ‘final’ shows that the speaker is not sure of
coming back. Also, the speaker tells that his name can be removed from the
phone book. It seems as if he feels that his life on the earth need not be
noted.
5) Pick out two
phrases from line 1 which suggest the final moments for the launch of the
rocket.
Ans:
The two phrases from the line I which suggest the final moments for the launch
of the rocket are a countdown and last look.
6) With what
feelings is the speaker flying out of the earth?
a. despair
b. lack of confidence
c. apprehension?
d. doubt about his return to the earth?
e. Choose your response from the ones given above or give your own. Say which
line or lines in the first stanza support your response.
Ans:
The speaker or author of the poem had apprehension about the flying out of the
earth.
7) State the
reason for the poet to say “calendars and clocks” are useless in space (stanza
2)
Ans:
There is no work, no day and night or seasons. Totally there was no change in
atmosphere, so there is no need for a calendar or clock.
8) The
expression “winter under lock”, means, that in space.
a. there is no change of seasons.
b. seasons change frequently.
c. weather is chilly always
d. weather is very hot always
Ans:
The expression “Winter under lock” means, in space weather is chill always.
9) The speaker
has the feeling that he is imprisoned. What might have been the reason for him
to have such a feeling? (Read lines 9 to 12)
Ans:
In space, there is no communication, no letters, no mail. Nobody visits him
Totally he was alone and he felt that he was in prison and he imprisoned in it.
10) The speaker
says, “Teacups circling around me like the planets around the sun. “Why does it
happen only in space and not on the earth?
Ans:
Earth has gravitational force but in space, there is the absence of
gravitational pull, due to this the teacup or whatever may be the object, it
would revolve around like the planets around the Sun.
11) Read stanza
5, and identify the indirect comparison (metaphor) in it.
Ans:
In stanza 5, the indirect comparison or metaphor is “Tracking through your
telescope my upward shooting star”.
12) The speaker
in the line (19) says “But you needn’t think I’ll give a damn for you”. This is
the same as saying
a) I don’t think I will have time to think about you.
b) I don’t think I will have no time to think about you.
Ans:
The speaker in line 19 says “But you needn’t think I’ll give a damn for you”
means
(a) I don’t think I will have time to think about you.
ANSWER THE
FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN 6-8 SENTENCES EACH:
1) What indirect references does the poet make to
the interferences that people suffer from in life?
Ans: When
he says that he will not care for the person he talks to, it hints that in
daily life, we cannot live without worrying about what people say or what
people think of us. Also, his words that after he travels two thousand
light-years into space, he will not bother about others who shout and show
anger, show his dislike for people interfering in our lives. So the poem,
though written in a light way, makes hidden remarks about some bad sides of
life on earth.
2) How does the poet describe life in space?
Ans:
The poet uses a special style. By using negative
ideas he shares positive thoughts. When he compares life in space to lonely
prison and when he says there will be no friend to ask about his health, it
looks like he is sad about being alone. But the tone, which is light and
cheerful, stays through the poem and we see that he is excited about being alone
in the wide space with nobody to trouble him. The poet feels no sorrow as such
life gives him the joy of being the centre of his own world, with cups of tea
moving around him like planets in orbit.
READ AND
APPRECIATE
1)
Do you think that the repetition of the last line of every stanza is
intentional? What might have been the purpose behind it? What does it suggest?
Sing it aloud and try to find out the answer.
Ans:
Yes,
the repeating of the last line in each stanza is done on purpose. The poet was
in a happy mood, and he shows greater excitement – going to outer space. The
reason was that he wanted to tell it to everyone.
2) The poem is
not full of figures of speech. Yet the poem has two similes. Pick them.
Ans:
The poem had two similes. They are
i) In solitary confinement as complete as any gaol, and
ii) with the teacups circling around me like the planets around the sun.
3) Pick some instances
of daily routine mentioned in the poem. Do you think the speaker doesn’t want
to do these things?
Ans:
Some instances of daily routine mentioned in the poem are
pass
the helmet from its plastic hook
cross
out the name from the telephone book
seeing
the calendar
seeing
the time
awaking
at daylight
sleeping
at night
watching
the television
writing
letters
posting
mails
visiting
friends
4) The rhyme scheme in the poem is a a a b. Do you
find any other rhyme scheme in the pattern of the poem? Look at the last line
of all the stanzas, and find it out.
Ans: The last
line is repeated in all the stanzas to stress or emphasize the information to
all with pride.
GIVE ONE
WORD/PHRASE FOR THE FOLLOWING:
1) A vehicle
used for traveling or carrying things into space.
Ans:
rocket
2) Part of the
spacecraft separated from the main.
Ans:
capsule
3) Weight due to
the force of gravity or attraction.
Ans:
center of gravity
4) The author of
the poem ‘Off to Outer Space Tomorrow Morning’.
Ans:
Norman Nicholson
READ THE
FOLLOWING EXTRACTS AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS GIVEN BELOW THEM:
1) “There won’t
be any calendar Daylight will he on the switch and winter under lock.”
a) Why are calendars useless in outer space?
b) Winter under lock” – what does this mean?
Ans:
a) There is no concept of day and night in space, hence no concept of time.
Therefore, calendars are useless in outer space.
b) ‘Winter under lock’ means that there is no change of seasons.
2) “There won’t
be any calendar, there won’t be any clock”.
a) Who has made this statement?
b) Where is the speaker experiencing this?
c) Why will there be no calendars or clocks?
Ans:
a) The poet Norman Nicholson.
b) In space.
c) There is no concept of time or day and night in space. So there is no need
for calendars or clocks.
3) ‘With the
teacups circling round me like the planets round the Sun’.
a) Where does the speaker experience this?
b) Why does the speaker have the above feeling?
Ans:
a) In outer space.
b) The earth has the pull of gravity, but in space,
there is no such force. So the poet says that when the capsule doors are closed
and when he goes on the space trip beyond the earth’s gravity, the teacups
would float around him like the planets moving in an orbit around the sun.
3) “In solitary
confinement as complete as any goal.”
a) What is referred to as ‘solitary confinement’?
b) Why does the speaker say so?
Ans:
a) Life in the spaceship is referred to as solitary confinement.
b)
The speaker makes this comparison to show that he
will be fully separated from the world. Even though space is huge and endless,
no one can move around freely like on earth. A person has to stay inside the
spaceship. That is the reason the poet calls his life in the spaceship a lonely
prison.
SUMMARY
The poem Off to Outer Space Tomorrow Morning is about a space traveler who speaks in a light and cheerful
tone before leaving for his journey. He asks people to take a last look at him
and even remove his name from the telephone book, as he will be far away and
cut off from the world. The poet compares his stay in the spaceship to solitary
confinement, as he cannot move around freely and will have no friends or
letters to keep him company.
Though he speaks of loneliness,
his tone is joyful. He looks forward to the new experience of being alone in
the vast universe without anyone to disturb him. The poet imagines teacups
floating around him like planets in orbit and enjoys the thought of being the
centre of his own little world. The poem, through humor and playfulness, also
points out serious truths about human life, such as our worries about others’
opinions and the need to escape interference. Overall, the poem mixes fun with
deeper meaning, showing both the excitement and isolation of space travel.
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