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NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English First Flight Poem 11 For Anne Gregory

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Textbook NCERT
Class Class 10
Subject English First Flight Poem
Chapter Chapter 11
Chapter Name For Anne Gregory
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NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English First Flight Poem 11 For Anne Gregory

TEXTUAL QUESTIONS
(Page 141)

Thinking About the Poem

Question 1.
What does the young man mean by “great honey-coloured / Ramparts at your ear ?” Why does he say that young men are “thrown into despair” by them ?
Answer:
By these the poet means golden outer parts of the young woman’s ears. He says that young men are “thrown into despair” by them. It is because they look ugly.

Question 2.
What colour is the young woman’s hair ? What does she say she can change it to ? Why would she want to do so ?
Answer:
The colour of the young woman’s hair is ‘white’. She can colour it ‘brown, black or carrot’. She can change it to brown, black or carrot. She would want to do so as per the latest fashion. It would be for looking attractive and beautiful.

Question 3.
Objects have qualities which make them desirable to others. Can you think of some objects (a car, a phone, a dress…) and say what qualities make one object more desirable than another ? Imagine you were trying to sell an object: what qualities would you emphasise ?
Answer:
These objects can be ‘shoes, ornaments, hair dyes, hair styles’ etc. Wearing costly ornaments and behaving in an affected manner etc, can make one more desirable than another. But these are momentary and ‘die’ after some time. It is because they emphasize the physical aspect of beauty. Physical beauty is external. Internal aspects of beauty are lasting. These are : affectionate or sympathetic attitude or behaviour, compassion, pity, love etc.

If I were to sell an object I would emphasize the useful and durable qualities. I wouldn’t favour artificial, temporary and unreal ones.

Question 4.
What about people ? Do we love others because we like their qualities, whether physical or mental ? Or is it possible to love someone “for themselves alone” ? Are some people ‘more lovable’ than others ? Discuss this question in pairs or in groups, considering points like the following.

(i) a parent or caregiver’s love for a newborn baby, for a mentally or physically challenged child, for a clever child or a prodigy
(ii) the public’s love for a film star, a sportsperson, a politician, or a social worker
(iii) your love for a friend, or brother or sister
(iv) your love for a pet, and the pet’s love for you.

Answer:
Such an attitude can and can’t be applied because human society is as such. We have to overlook certain weaknesses of the human beings seeing different situations. Essentially, we love others because of their physical and mental qualities. We also love them ‘for themselves alone’. For example, a mother loves her child whether he or she is or is not beautiful. There are some people ‘more lovable’ than others. It is because of their qualities of head and heart.

The following to be discussed in pairs in groups :

(i) A parent’s love for a newborn baby, or a mentally or physically challenged child, etc, will almost be the same. It would be more for a clever or a prodigy because of his or her inborn traits. However, the love of a caregiver .will not be of that level. That would be determined by the relationship.

(ii) The public’s love for a film star, a sportsperson, a politician or a social worker is situational. It will be there till that person works as the public expects. Players, sportspersons, filmstars and politicians are out once they fail to meet the public aspirations. Politicians get defeated. Filmstars, sportspersons etc, are abused. Rotten tomatoes are thrown at them. They are shown black flags if they fail to come up to the public’s estimate. They are also abused in the social media.

(iii) My love for a friend or brother or sister can’t be the same. A friend is a friend. A brother or sister are a brother or sister. But my love gets shaken if they fail to act what they are. A friend in that case may be ‘defriended’. But a brother or sister can’t be done with so.

(iv) My love for a pet will be less affected by the pet’s behaviour. Her or his being not a human being will continue to get my love. Her or his winning my heart by tricks/ feats etc, shall determine my love.

Question 5.
You have perhaps concluded that people are not objects to be valued for their qualities or riches rather than for themselves. But elsewhere Yeats asks the question: How can we separate the dancer from the dance ? Is it possible to separate ‘the person himself or herself from how the person looks, sounds, walks, and so on 1 Think of how you or a friend or member of your family has changed over the years. Has your relationship also changed ? In what way ?
Answer:
It is rather difficult to separate ‘the person himself or herself from how the person behaves. But a certain distinction can be made. Actually man or woman must understand that he or she is not one man. He or she hides several persons in them. She or he must behave in keeping with those things in mind.

Yes, I have seen how a member of my family has changed over the years. It is due to stupid and artificial reasons. It is also due to her not taking the relationships seriously, t Seeing that my relationship has also changed. She has abused the faith that we had in her earlier. Now we do not have any faith in her. We are conscious of her every time. Our relationship is not deep. It has become showy and artificial. It mustn’t be this way.

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NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English First Flight Poem 10 The Tale of Custard the Dragon

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NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English First Flight Poem Chapter 10 The Tale of Custard the Dragon are part of NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English. Here we have given NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English First Flight Poem Chapter 10 The Tale of Custard the Dragon.

Board CBSE
Textbook NCERT
Class Class 10
Subject English First Flight Poem
Chapter Chapter 10
Chapter Name The Tale of Custard the Dragon
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NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English First Flight Poem 10 The Tale of Custard the Dragon

TEXTUAL QUESTIONS
(Page 132)

Thinking About the Poem

Question 1.
Who are the characters in this poem ? List them with their pet names.
Answer:
Here is the list of Characters of this poem :

Name of the Character Pet Name
Little black Kitten Ink
Little grey mouse Blink
Little yellow dog Mustard
The dragon Custard

Question 2.
Why did Custard cry for a nice safe cage ? Why is the dragon called “cowardly dragon” ?
Answer:
Custard cried for a nice safe cage because he was coward. He was called “cowardly dragon”. All other animals laughed at him for being so. He did not like that. So he cried for a nice safe cage.

Question 3.
“Belinda tickled him, she tickled him unmerciful…” Why ?
Answer:
Belinda tickled Custard because a pirate had come there. He had pistols in his hands. She tickled Custard to save her from the pirate.

Question 4.
The poet has employed many poetic devices in the poem. For example: “Clashed his tail like iron in a dungeon”—the poetic device here is a simile. Can you, with your partner, list some more such poetic devices used in the poem ?

Answer:

Similes :

— the little yellow dog was sharp as Mustard
— Belinda was as brave as a barrel full of bears
— snorting like an engine
— He went at the pirate like a robin at a worm

Question 5.
Read stanza three again to know how the poet describes the appearance of the dragon.
Answer:
Stanza three of the poem describes the physical side of the dragon. By stating his ‘big sharp teeth’, ‘spikes’ and ‘scales’, the poet makes him fearful.

Question 6.
Can you find out the rhyme scheme of two or three stanzas of the poem ?
Answer:
The rhyme scheme is : first stanza — aa bb , second stanza — aa bb

We can identify it by putting a to one sound and b to another one. In stanza first house and mouse have / s / sound. We put aa to these. In third and fourth line it is / n / sound in wagon and dragon. We put bb to these.

Question 7.
Writers use words to give us a picture or image without actually saying what they mean. Can you trace some images used in the poem ?
Answer:
Some images are in stanza third (physical image of Custard). In stanza eight we can almost see the picture of the pirate. In stanza ten, it is that of an ‘engine’. It is also of the fighting image of soldiers.

Question 8.
Do you find The Tale of Custard the Dragon to be a serious or a light-hearted poem ? Give reasons to support your answer.
Answer:
It is a light-hearted poem. The animals have been treated as human beings. Then they pose before each other what they are not. When the danger comes, they run off. Again, when they come together, they pretend of their bravery.

Question 9.
This poem, in ballad form, tells a story. Have you come across any such modern song or lyric that tells a story ? If you know one, tell it to the class. Collect such songs as a project.
Answer:
It is meant for individual student. They should collect such poems and tell them to the class.

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NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English First Flight Poem 9 Fog

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Board CBSE
Textbook NCERT
Class Class 10
Subject English First Flight Poem
Chapter Chapter 9
Chapter Name Fog
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NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English First Flight Poem 9 Fog

TEXTUAL QUESTIONS
(Page 115)

Thinking About the Poem

Question 1.

  1. What does Sandburg think the fog is like ?
  2. How does the fog come ? (V. Imp.)
  3. What does ‘if in the third line refer to ?
  4. Does the poet actually say that the fog is like a cat ? Find three things that tell us that the fog is like a cat.

Answer:

  1. The fog is like the little cat sitting with her knees bent.
  2. The fog comes silently and slowly.
  3. ‘It’ in the third line refers to the cat and the fog as well.
  4. The poet does not say it. But he means it through a metaphor.

The three things are : (a) The fog comes (b) It sits on little haunches (c) It then moves on.

Question 2.
You know that a metaphor compares two things by transferring a feature of one thing to the other (See Unit 1).
(i) Find metaphors for the following words and complete the table below. Also try to say how they are alike. The first is done for you.

Storm tiger pounces over the fields, growls
Train
Fire
School
Home

(ii) Think about a storm. Try to visualise the force of the storm, hear the sound of the storm, feel the power of the storm and the sudden calm that happens afterwards. Write a poem about the storm comparing it with an animal.

Answer:

(i)

Train snake moves on its rail hisses
Fire dragon destroys roars
School temple teaches, instructs ringing bells
Home cave gives protection, safety comfort

(ii) Students can write a poem on Storm as asked for.

Question 3.
Does this poem have a rhyme scheme ? Poetry that does not have an obvious rhythm or rhyme is called ‘free verse’.
Answer:
The poem does not have a rhyme scheme. It is a free verse.

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NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English First Flight Poem 8 The Trees

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NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English First Flight Poem Chapter 8 The Trees are part of NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English. Here we have given NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English First Flight Poem Chapter 8 The Trees.

Board CBSE
Textbook NCERT
Class Class 10
Subject English First Flight Poem
Chapter Chapter 8
Chapter Name The Trees
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NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English First Flight Poem Chapter 8 The Trees

TEXTUAL QUESTIONS
(Page 100)

Can there be a forest without trees ? Where are the trees in this poem, and where do they go ?
Answer:
There can’t be a forest without trees because trees are actually the forest itself. The trees in the poem are merely decorative plants and bushes. These are grown in the houses for decoration and beautification. They grow in small pots and pans. These are kept in verandas or drawing rooms as decoration pieces only.

Thinking About the Poem

Question 1.

  1. Find, in the first stanza, three things that cannot happen in a treeless forest.
  2. What picture do these words create in your mind:”… sun bury its feet in shadow …” ? What could the poet mean by the sun’s ‘feet’ ?

Answer:

  1. (a) Trees can’t move out into the forest (b) no birds can sit on them (c) no insects can hide in them.
  2. The picture is that of the sun. It is burying itself in the shadow. This is caused by the clouds. By the sun’s ‘feet’ the poet means the edge.

Question 2.

  1. Where are the trees in the poem ? What do their roots, their leaves, and their twigs do ?
  2. What does the poet compare their branches to ?

Answer:

  1. The trees in the poem are in the pots and pans. Their roots spread to free themselves from the cracks in the veranda door. Their leaves go toward the glass. Small twigs stiffen the long-cramped boughs.
  2. The poet compares their branches to the newly discharged patients. Those patients are going towards the clinic doors. They have been discharged.

Question 3.

(i) How does the poet describe the moon : (a) at the beginning of the third stanza, and (b) at its end ? What causes this change ?
(ii) What happens to the house when the trees move out of it ? (V. Imp.)
(iii) Why do you think the poet does not mention “the departure of the forest from the house” in her letters ?

(Could it be that we are often silent about important happenings that are so unexpected that they embarrass us ? Think about this again when you answer the next set of questions.)

Answer:

(i) (i) The whole moon shines in the open sky. ,(ii) In the end it is broken like a mirror. The growth of trees in the pots and pans causes this.
(ii) The house undergoes a change. Its glass is broken. The smell of leaves is felt inside the rdoms. Winds rush inside the house.
(iii) The poet deliberately does not mention this because it is like the unexpected happening. It is common and is known to all.

Question 4.
Now that you have read the poem in detail, we can begin to ask what the poem might mean. Here are two suggestions. Can you think of others ?

(i) Does the poem present a conflict between man and nature ? Compare it with ‘A Tiger in the Zoo.’ Is the poet suggesting that plants and trees, used for ‘interior decoration’ in cities while forests are cut down, are ‘imprisoned’, and need to ‘break out’ ?

(ii) On the other hand, Adrienne Rich has been known to use trees as a metaphor for human beings; this is a recurrent image in her poetry. What new meanings emerge from the poem if you take its trees to be symbolic of this particular meaning ?

Answer:

(i) The poem does present a conflict between man and nature. In fact, man has harmed nature much. He has cut forests and killed wild animals. He keeps wild animals in zoos as given in ‘A Tiger in the Zoo’. Yes, the plants and trees are really imprisoned. We must grow them naturally, not inside the houses.

(ii) The new meanings are : men will multiply. They grow like the trees. These are kept in pots in houses. These trees break the house. So the human beings shall disturb the ecological balance of nature. At present this is the situation. Environmental pollution is its effect, Human survival is threatened. Global warming is there. Soon it will threaten human and other life. The danger, therefore, is real.

Question 5.
You may read the poem ‘On Killing a Tree’ by Gieve Patel (Beehive—Textbook in English for Class IX, NCERT). Compare and contrast it with the poem you have just read.
Answer:
‘The Trees’ deals with ‘trees’ that are nowhere in a physical sense. They exist only in a picture. ‘On Killing a Tree’ deals with the subject of how to kill a tree. Both the poems narrate a world which is connected with trees. In ‘On Killing a Tree’, the poet satirizes man’s action in killing a tree. He says that man should ‘kill’ a tree ‘totally’. The tree will grow again if it is partially ‘injured’. In ‘The Trees’, the poet satirizes the ‘world’ that is without the trees. It hides the fact that man has ‘killed’ all the trees. So both the poems underline man’s attitude towards trees and nature. They also satirize it.

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NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English First Flight Poem 7 Animals

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Board CBSE
Textbook NCERT
Class Class 10
Subject English First Flight Poem
Chapter Chapter 7
Chapter Name Animals
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NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English First Flight Poem Chapter 7 Animals

TEXTUAL QUESTIONS
(Page 84)

Thinking About the Poem

Question 1.
Notice the use of the word ‘turn’ in the first line. “I think I could turn and live with animals …”. What is the poet turning from ?
Answer:
The poet is turning from being a human being to being animal. It is because of one fact. It is : animals are more human and simpler than the human beings.

Question 2.
Mention three things that humans do and animals don’t.
Answer:

Humans do

  1. They cry about their condition.
  2. They lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins.
  3. They make the poet sick by discussing their duty to God.

Animals don’t do

  1. Animals, do not do that.
  2. Animals do not do so.
  3. Animals do not do that.

Question 3.
Do humans kneel to other humans who lived thousands of years ago ? Discuss this in groups.
Answer:
Yes, human beings do that. They do so to show respect to the elderly. It is a cultural feature of our country.

Question 4.
What are the ‘tokens’ that the poet says he may have dropped long ago, and which the animals have kept for him ? Discuss this in class.

(Hint : Whitman belongs to the Romantic tradition that includes Rousseau and Wordsworth, which holds that civilisation has made humans false to their own true nature. What could be the basic aspects of our nature as living beings that humans choose to ignore or deny ?)
Answer:

To be discussed at class level

These ‘tokens’ are of love, affection, kindness, sympathy, fellow-feelings etc, towards one and all. It is sad that these good human virtues have disappeared. The poet feels it very bad. He says that animals do not behave like the human beings. Those human beings cut the others’ throats easily. Animals, for him, do not do so. They are better than the human beings in many ways.

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NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English First Flight Poem 6 Amanda

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NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English First Flight Poem Chapter 6 Amanda are part of NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English. Here we have given NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English First Flight Poem Chapter 6 Amanda.

Board CBSE
Textbook NCERT
Class Class 10
Subject English First Flight Poem
Chapter Chapter 6
Chapter Name Amanda
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NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English First Flight Poem 6 Amanda

TEXTUAL QUESTIONS
(Page 62)

Every child feels that she/he is controlled and instructed not to do one thing or another. You too may feel that your freedom is curtailed. Write down some of the things you want to do, but your parents / elders do not allow you to. To read the poem aloud, form pairs, each reading alternate stanzas. You are in for a surprise!
Answer:
Yes, my parents always tell me what to do or what things not to do. For example, they forbid me to walk with bare feet. They ask me to wear many woollens in severe winter. They forbid me to play in the water or dust and to eat what I like.

Yes, the surprise rang familiar because Amanda did nothing that was usually done by boys and girls at her age. Secondly, she showed that she was a considerate girl (she never let down her bright hair).

Thinking About the Poem

Question 1.
How old do you think Amanda is ? How do you know this ?
Answer:
I think Amanda is around 12 or 13. It is clear from the ‘acnes’ she has. Usually boys or girls at this age have them on their faces.

Question 2.
Who do you think is speaking to her ?
Answer:
It is her parent speaking to her.

Question 3.
Why are Stanzas 2, 4 and 6 given in parenthesis ?
Answer:
Stanzas 2, 4 and 6 are given in parenthesis as they are answers to other stanzas. These come before them. They are there as they could be suitable answers to the questions in them.

Question 4.
Who is the speaker in Stanzas 2, 4 and 6 ? Do you think this speaker is listening to the speaker in Stanzas 1, 3, 5 and 7 ?
Answer:
The speaker in stanza 2 is a mermaid. In stanza 4, it is an orphan. In stanza 6 it may be a fairy or a spirit.

In stanzas 1, 3, 5 and 7 the speaker is not listening.

Question 5.
What could Amanda do if she were a mermaid ?
Answer:
Amanda could move about in the green sea blissfully.

Question 6.
Is Amanda an orphan ? Why does she say so ? (V. Imp.)
Answer:
Amanda thinks as she is an orphan wandering in the streets. It is clear in stanza 4. But she is not. So many instructions can be given by parents only.

Question 7.
Do you know the story ofRapunzel ? Why does she want to be Rapunzel ?
Answer:
Rapunzdl is actually a beautiful looking vegetation. It is used in lettuce or it can be lettuce itself. As per a folklore it was a sweet and beautiful looking vegetation. It was very much liked by a fairy who wanted to have it.

Here the girl wants to be Rapunzel to her parents. However, they rebuke her on one or the other pretext.

Question 8.
What does the girl yearn for ? What does this poem tell you about Amanda ? (V. Imp.)
Answer:
The girl yearns for freedom. She wants to lead her life the way she likes. In fact, she has certain natural habits. These are had by all at their respective ages. But her parents do not like these to be there in her.

Amanda has these habits. But she is an obedient and understanding girl. There are certain restrictions in her life. These are there in every household.

Question 9.
Read the last stanza. Do you think Amanda is sulking and is moody ?
Answer:
Amanda is sulking as it is given in the last stanza. But it is ‘sulking’ for the speaker only. She on her own is not sulking. It is clear in the sentence “Anyone would think … at you”. It means the speaker is conscious that he or she is ‘nagging’ her unnecessarily.

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