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Compulsory English Model Question 2079| Neb Class 12 (Poems)
1. How does the poet describe the morning sun in the first stanza? (A Day)
Answer:
The poet, in the first stanza, describes the morning sun by presenting the stripe of ribbon in the sky, the deep violet colour like amethyst in the steeples of the churches, and the quick natural process as squirrels run, which makes everyone aware of the morning.
2. What does the line ‘The news like squirrels ran’ mean? (A Day)
Answer:
This line, ‘The news like squirrels ran’, means the news of sunrise is similar to squirrels' run. Here, the quick natural process of the sunrise has been compared to the quick run of squirrels to show the speed of the sunrise. It is referred to as news that spreads quickly.
3. What do you understand by the line ‘The hills untied their bonnets’? (A Day)
Answer:
By the line 'The hills united their bonnets', we understand the natural changes that appear in different places on this planet due to the morning rays of the sun. Here, the poet has used metaphorical meanings. Here, the poet has personified the hills. The hills' bonnets have been metaphorically presented as the mists over the hills. As the morning rays of sun fall on the hills, the hills untie the mists over the hills and make them clean and fresh.
4. What does the speaker pray for? (Every Morning I Wake)
Answer:
The speaker prays for the following things:
God's loving eyes are on all the poor creatures who are living under Milk Wood. God's blessing on the town and its residents' nights and sleep.
God's judgement is on the best side of people under the Milk Wood, ignoring the worst aspects.
It's God's blessing to spend the night and see the glorious next day.
5. Who are the ‘poor creatures’? Why does the speaker call them ‘poor creatures’? (Every Morning I Wake)
Answer:
The 'poor creatures' are all the living creatures as well as the inhabitants of the town living under Milk Wood. The speaker calls them 'poor creatures' because he knows that all these living creatures, including him under the Milk Wood, are momentary and are born to die one day.
6. What do you understand by her feet ‘would not accept walking backwards’? (I Was My Own Route)
Answer:
By her feet 'would not accept walking backwards', we understand the bold resolution of the speaker to move her feet forward towards her new paths where there would be no obstacles regarding patriarchal norms and values. Her feet wouldn't accept walking backwards on her way ahead.
7. Who are the old guards? Why did they grow desperate? (I Was My Own Route)
Answer:
The old guards are those traditionalists who conserve and support patriarchal norms and values. They grew desperate to see the speaker's protest against them. They found a violation of patriarchal norms and values in the speaker's acts.
8. How did the speaker have ‘a feeling of intimate liberation’? (I Was My Own Route)
Answer:
The speaker had 'a feeling of intimate liberation' by moving herself on new paths that are quite separated from old and familiar patriarchal norms and values. On her new paths, she had a joyous feeling of intimate liberation that flowed from the balance between her life and the truth of the route she had chosen.
9. Who are the people ‘who travel the meridian line’? (The Awakening Age)
Answer:
The people 'who travel the meridian line' are those fragmented Nigerian people who have been divided into two sects, the south and the north, due to the devastating civil war. These people suffered a lot in the war due to hunger, poverty, unemployment, and other aspects of their lives.
10. What does the poet mean by ‘a new world’? (The Awakening Age)
Answer:
By 'a new world', the poet means a fine world of hope, prosperity, unity, truth, wisdom, and creativity. This is the world of united Nigeria that occurred after the outbreak of civil peace in Nigeria.
11. How are people connected to each other? (The Awakening Age)
Answer:
People are connected to each other with a link of hope from history that is quite strong, like mountain rope.
12. What can we gain after our perceptions are changed? (The Awakening Age)
Answer:
After our perceptions are changed, we can gain truthfulness away from problems and pains. When our perceptions are changed, we will be able to gain unity, truth, prosperity, work, wisdom, and creativity.
13. Enlist the occasions when he grows soft. (Soft Storm)
Answer:
The speaker grows soft on a variety of occasions, such as:
After hearing the tumult and crashing into the mysterious stillness,
Seeing the sky grow like flowers over the stones and grow five inches taller,
The moon skidding down on the walls, speaking the language of posters, politics, rituals, and reasons, sings of lampposts and gutters in the seamless city.
Seeing homeless children crying with hunger.
Seeing ceremonies dance with mad steps in the unwedded gardens of history.
He was trying to express his dissatisfaction in words on the white sheets.
Observing a helpless child running and crying to find his mother in a violent history.
Seeing a man being beaten mercilessly without any reason in hard times.
Seeing a blood-stained shirt in this lawless land of history and dreams.
14. What do you understand by ‘this seamless city’? (Soft Storm)
Answer:
By "this seamless city", we understand a city of no interruption. This seamless city signifies the city of Kathmandu, where plenty of disorders are prevalent, such as illegal activities, pollution, the pain of poor people, so-called rituals and reasons, useless posters, political gossip, etc.
15. Describe the poor children portrayed in the poem. (Soft Storm)
Answer:
The poor children portrayed in the poem with their miserable conditions in the fascinated city of Kathmandu. These children are homeless and parentless and have been crying with hunger and poverty under the bat-bearing trees of Kesharmahal in Thamel.
16. Why was the forlorn child wailing? (Soft Storm)
Answer:
A forlorn child was crying because he felt unsecured when he found his mother, other relatives, and loved ones missing in contemporary society.
17. What do you understand by ‘soft storm’? (Soft Storm)
Answer:
By soft storm', we mean a natural activity that is seen in the weather on this planet. Here in this poem, soft storm refers to the inner turbulent feelings of the speaker in an environment of the chaotic society of Kathmandu Valley.
18. What do you understand by ‘the unwedded gardens of history’?
Answer:
By 'unwedded gardens of history' we understand the unaffected past events of the society, which literally means the state of anarchy created by social and political hegemony in Nepalese society.
19. Why does the speaker call our time ‘mad time’? (Soft Storm)
Answer:
The speaker calls our time'mad time' because he feels so bad to see many inhuman activities in his surroundings. The speaker experiences unusual changes in his surroundings, such as flowers over the stones, moon singing of so-called aspects of the valley, mad steps of people, the cry of hunger and pain, lawlessness, barbarism, and rhododendron in winter, violence, etc.
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