Unit 1 - 1.1 Where the mind is Without fear — English STD 10 — Question

What effect does the repetition of the word 'where' at the beginning of each line achieve?

Pick out the lines that contain the following figures of speech:
(a) Antithesis :
(b) Inversion :1. Let us (said He)...
2. Rest in the bottom lay.

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases: it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health and quiet breathing.
Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing
A flowery band to bind us to the earth,
Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth
Of noble natures, of the gloomy days.
Of all the unhealthy and o'er-darkened ways Made for our searching: yes, in spite of all.
Some shape of beauty moves away the pall
From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, Trees old, and young, sprouting a shady boon For simple sheep; and such are daffodils With the green world they live in; and clear rills That for themselves a cooling covert make 'Gain the hot season: the mid forest brake. Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms:

From the poem pick out the words of old English that mean the words given below:
(1) gift-
(2) the next day -
(3) a protective spot for animals -
(4) a cool shady spot under tall trees -
(5) ferns-
(6) depression -
(7) cover for the dead-
(8) streams-

Read the poem and write the rhyme scheme of: the last stanza/last five lines.

Match the phrases in table A with lines from the extract given in table B:

'A' (Phrases)	'B' (Lines)
(1) Toil hard	(a) If you want a thing bad enough...
(2) Get rid of all	(b) Fret for it ...
(3) Worry a lot about it	(c) To work day and night for it
(4) Need desperately	(d) Lose all your terror of

Name and explain the figures of speech used in the following lines:
(a) His youthful hose, well-saved, a world too wide
(b) For his shrunk shank
(c) Turning again towards childish treble
(d) Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

Pick out and write the lines that contain imagery.

Pick out an example of Antithesis from the extract:

Does the poem retain a steady rhythm throughout?

The poet has used the word REST thrice in the poem. Write what the word implies in each of the three lines it occurs.