POEM - 7 - The Duck and the Kangaroo — ENGLISH STD 9 — Question

What did Saint Peter ask the old lady for? What was the lady’s reaction?

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?

Explain the use of symbolism in the poem.

Identify the elements of nature that nurture a tree.

What finally kills the 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.

What assurance does the Duck give to the Kangaroo?

What does he mean by ‘the Strength of the tree exposed’?

Look at these words;
…peace comes dropping slow
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings
What do these words mean to you? What do you think “comes dropping slow… from the veils of the morning”? What does “to- where the cricket sings” mean?