C1. Answer the following questions. Share your response with others.
1. List out the things where beauty can be seen during the day.
Ans:-Beauty can be seen during the day in sunlight, the trees, the birds, corn growing, people working, dancing for their harvest and many more.
2. The poet says ‘beauty is heard in the night’. Pick out any two things of beauty from the poem that are seen at night.
Ans:-The two things of beauty from the poem that are seen at night are :-
i) wind sighing
ii) rain falling etc.,
3. Read the first and second stanzas of the poem again. Note the following phrases. Corn growing, people working or dancing, wind sighing, rain falling, a singer chanting.
These could be written as
* Corn that is growing
* People who are working or dancing.
Can you rewrite the other phrases like this?
Why do you think the poet uses the shorter phrases?
Ans:-The other phrases in the poem are wind sighing – Wind that is sighing.
rain falling – the rain that is falling
singer chanting – the singer who is chanting .
The poetess uses the shorter phrases to give stress or emotional feeling.
4. The Poet says ‘Beauty is seen’ and ‘Beauty is heard’. List out the beautiful things you have seen or heard.
Ans:-
5. The poet says ‘Beauty is in yourself.’
What things does she mention here?
When does she want us to follow them?
Ans:-–Beauty is in ourselves. That is in our good deeds, happy thoughts. These all repeat themselves in our dreams, in our work and in our rest.
6. Write a paragraph about beauty. You can use your own ideas along with the ideas in the poem.(You may discuss with your partner)
Ans:-Beauty is defined on the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasureably exalts the mind or spirit. Love pleases the mind, heart and senses thus it is beautiful. Beauty can be patterns, knowledge, art, sounds, poetry or literature. And it is also said that “Beauty lies in the eyes of of the beholder”… The idea of beauty is not just a physical appearance of a person or object. Rather it is an understanding that gives some experience to one’s eyes, ears, intellect – and moral sense.
7. The phrase ‘wind sighing’ is personifi cation. Give two more examples of personification. You may take the help of your teacher,
Ans:-Rain falling
Happy thoughts are examples of Personification.