POEM - 10 - A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal — ENGLISH STD 9 — Question

The poet finds the snake beautiful. Find the words he uses to convey its beauty.

Find out as much as you can about different kinds of snakes (from books in the library, or from the Internet). Are they all poisonous? Find out the names of some poisonous snakes.

How does the woodpecker get her food?

Does he see her now as a Part of nature? In which lines of the poem do you find your answer?

Is this poem correct in being known as a legend? Explain.

“It takes much time to kill a tree,?Not a simple jab of the knife. Will do it …” s Why does it takes so much time to kill a !; tree?

Let’s look at the words at the end of the second and fourth lines, viz., ‘snows’ and ‘clothes’, ‘true’ and ‘you’, ‘below’ and ‘know.’ We find that ‘snows’ rhymes with I ‘clothes’, ‘true’ rhymes with ‘you’ and ‘below’ rhymes with ‘know’.

Find more such rhyming words.

As you know, from the previous lesson you have just read, there are people in our country who have traditional knowledge about snakes, who even catch poisonous snakes with practically bare hands. Can you find out something more about them?

Why does the Duck praise the Kangaroo?

What does the each sound of shingle create?