Unit 4 - 4.1 A Thing of Beauty is a Joy For Ever — English STD 10 — Question

Describe the outcome of this experience on the poet.

Every stanza begins with the word 'if'. How does it add to the effectiveness of the poem?

How can poverty keep you away from achieving your goals?

Explain the following:
(a) what the poet prays to the Almighty for?
(b) what 'reason' and 'dead habit' are compared to?
(c) what the poet wishes for ?

Complete the following table :

Background/setting of the poem
Type	Evidence (guote lines from the extract)
Rural

Find the appropriate meanings of the following lines:
(a) to go out and fight for it.
(b) makes you quite mad enough (This line is not part of the poem given in the textbook.)
(c) lose all the terror of God or man for it
(This line in the poem in the textbook has the word 'opposition' and not 'God or man'.)

Complete the following table based on the extract :

Stages of Man	Role	qualities/Actions
First	infant
Second	schoolboy
Third	lover
Fourth	soldier

the meaning of 'Where words come out from the depth of truth'?Explain in your own words

Arrange the following reactions in their proper order as per the poem :
(1) His waistband split
(2) The grin grew broad
(3) Sleepless eye
(4) Was all upon the grin
(5) He broke into a roar
(6) He burst five buttons

Explain :
(a) the contrast between the poet and his servant.
(b) the poet's reaction when he read the lines.