Sea Fever Questions & Answers

                                              Sea Fever

1. Name the poet and the poem from which this line has been taken.

 Ans.  The poem is Sea Fever and it is written by John Masefield.

 

2. What do you think the title of this poem means? What is the fever?

Ans. ‘Sea Fever’ expresses the deep desire of the poet to be at sea. He uses the word ‘fever’ to express the urgency of this desire, which cannot be satisfied unless he experiences it.

 

 3. What all does the poet ask for when he is at sea?

Ans.  The poet asks for a tall ship, a star to steer her by.

 

4. What according to the poet are the pleasures of sailing?

 Ans. The poet enjoys the wheel’s kick, the wind’s song and the white sails shaking, a grey mist on the sea’s face and a grey dawn breaking, white clouds flying, flung spray, blown spume and the sea-gulls crying.

 

 5. Quote the line that has been repeated in the poem.

 Ans. “I must go down to the sea again”, is the often repeated line.

 

6. Why has this line been repeated?

 Ans. This line has been repeated because it expresses his deepest desire and urgency to return to sea as a sailor. He feels the sea is calling, for the call of the running tide is a wild call and a clear call that cannot be denied. He wishes to be one with the sea. Everything about the sea is a source of delight and excitement.

 

7. What sort of a life does the poet desire to lead at sea?

 Ans. The poet visualizes a vagrant gypsy life where he can feel a sense of freedom like the gulls and whales, in the sea.

 

 8. What kind of a life does the poet lead at sea?

 Ans. The poet leads a wandering life that of a vagrant gypsy. His only companions are the sea gulls and the whales.

 

9. A sailor is in the company of nature most of the time but, being a human being, he might also wish to have human company at times. What kind of human company does this sailor want?

Ans. The poet longs for the company of a laughing fellow rover with whom he can share his stories and experiences.

 

10. Quote the lines from the poem which tell us what the poet wants to do after his voyage is over.

 Ans. The lines are: “And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over.”

 

 11. Explain the line-“Where the wind’s like a whetted knife.”

 Ans. Out in the open seas the winds are icy cold and blow very strongly. The poet feels very cold and feels that the icy winds cut him like a sharp knife.

 

12. What does wheel’s kick refer to ?

Ans. It refers to the force of the wheel against the helmsman’s hand.

 

13. What is the sea-wind compared to?

Ans. The sea-wind is compared to a whetted knife.

 

14. What kind of life does the poet aspire to?

Ans. The poet aspires to a vagrant gypsy life in his poem, ‘Sea Fever’.

 

15. What does the wind’s song refer to?

Ans. It refers to the rhythm of the sea wind whistling by.

 

16. How is the call of the running tide?

Ans. The call of the running tide is loud, clear and irresistible in the poem, ‘Sea Fever’.

 

17. What happens to sea-bed as the ship moves?

Ans. There are flung spray and blown spume on the seabed as the ship moves.

 

18. What does the poet ask for to steer his ship?

Ans. The poet asks for a star to steer his ship.

 

19. When does the poet want to enjoy quiet sleep?

Ans. The wants to enjoy quiet sleep after the journey is over.

 

20. Where does the poet wishes to go and why?

Ans. The poet wishes to go on a sea voyage to the lonely sea and the sky above to enjoy the excitement of sea voyage.

 

21. What does the poet need in the voyage?

Ans. For the voyage, the poet needs to take a tall ship and a star for guidance at night.

The Poem, Fable questions and answers for class x

                                                                               FABLE

1.Who wrote the poem, ‘Fable’?

Ans—The poem, ‘Fable’ was written by Ralph Waldo Emerson./ “Fable” is a short poem written by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1847.

2. What does ‘little prig’ mean ?

Ans. The word, ‘Little prig’ means a small creature that is fussy and self-righteous in an irritating manner.

3. What does the poem ‘Fable’ mean to say ?

Ans. In the poem, ‘Fable’ the word fable means to say that talents differ and everyone, big or small, has a role to play on earth.

4. What do all sorts of things and weather make ?

Ans—All sorts of things and weather make a sphere or the earth and a year in the poem, ‘Fable’.

5. What is not disgrace to the squirrel?

Ans. It is not a disgrace to the squirrel to be so small and to occupy a small place.

6. Where does the squirrel make ‘squirrel track’?

Ans—In the poem, ‘Fable’ the squirrel makes it’s track in the forest that grows on the mountain’s back.

7. What are the positive qualities of the squirrel ?

Ans—From the poem, ‘Fable’ we come to know that the squirrel is spry or lively, confident and speak articulately for himself.

8. What, according to the squirrel, are the limitations of the mountain ?

Ans—According to the squirrel, the mountain is not half as spry as the squirrel and cannot crack nuts.

9. What does the term ‘all sorts of things’ refer to ?

Ans. The term, ‘all sorts of things’ refers to both the living and non-living things of nature.

10. Who is called ‘little prig’ in the poem, ‘Fable’ ?

Ans. The squirrel is called ‘little prig’ by the mountain in the poem, ‘Fable’.

Analysis of the poem

     

 Fable" is a poem written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. A "fable" is a short tale to teach a lesson.. Emerson wrote the poem with a very obvious theme in mind: Everyone is unique and everyone possesses different talents. This becomes increasingly apparent at the end of the poem. Emerson is screaming to the reader that there is no shame in being your unique self. Although there will always be bigger or more talented people in certain aspects, they are not perfect and you are better than them in different ways. A "prig" is someone who is self-righteous. In this tale, Emerson tells us to not judge others and try to understand that people unlike us also have qualities that we don't have. For example, the mountain may be able to carry forests on his back but he can't crack a nut like a squirrel. "Fable" is written as one stanza with 19 lines. The rhyme scheme is AABCBDDEEFFGHHIJKJK. As you can see, not all the lines rhyme. This is Emerson's way to put importance on a line and change the rhythm to change emotion.

My Own True Family Questions and answers for class X

                            My Own True Family

1.Who wrote the poem ‘My Own True Family’?

 

Ans—Edward James ‘Ted’ Hughes, a famous English poet had written the poem.

2.When did the poet come twice awake?

Ans—When the old woman whom the poet met in an oak wood opened the bag to show a magic, the poet came twice awake.

3 .What did the old woman begin to do ?

Ans—From the poem, ‘My Own True Family’ we come to know that the old woman began to laugh in a shrill way.

4. What did the child begin to do at the woman’s cackle?

Ans—The child began to tremble in fear in the poem, ‘My Own True Family’.

5. What would happen to the poet if he failed to make the promise?

Ans – If the poet failed to make the promise, the black oak tree would wrinkle over him and rooted him among the oak trees. This way he would die.

6. What was it that altered the poet?

Ans –The dream which the poet saw about the ill fate of oak trees has altered the poet completely. When he awoke from his dream he felt compassionate with the trees.

7. In what sense was the poet child twice awake?

Ans—On his first waking, the poet saw the old woman and in the next phase of his dream he woke up to see the tribe of oaks surrounding him in the poem, ‘ My Own True Family’.

8. What happened when the old woman open her bag?

Ans—When the old woman opened her bag, the child found himself tied to a stake and surrounded by a tribe.

9. What condition did the old woman and the tribe lay down to the child to save himself ?

Ans—The old woman and the tribe compelled the child to make a promise that whenever he saw an oak tree felled, he would plant two oak trees as compensation.

10. What would happen if child did not keep his promise?

Ans—If the child did not keep his promise, the black oak bark would wrinkle over him and root him among the oaks.

11. How was the child altered ?

Ans. When the child came out of the oak wood, though his walk was of a human child, his heart seemed to be a tree itself.

12. When did the poet come twice awake?

Ans. In the poem, ‘My Own True Family’ the poet came twice awake when the old woman opened up her little bag.

13. What are the complaints of the oak trees?

Ans.  The complaints of the Oak-trees were that though they were true family members of mankind, the human beings chop them down, torn them up indiscriminately.

14. What did the old woman say?

Ans. The old woman said that she had the poet’s secret inside her little bag.

15. Who introduced themselves as the poets own true family?

Ans. The oak-tree introduced themselves as the poet’s own true family.

About More--

The poem describes the magical experience of a young child in an Oakwood, and indicates that human beings and trees should thrive as a single family. It focuses strongly on the need to protect our natural environment for the welfare of mankind.

EXPLANATION:  “Once I crept in …to a stake”

The poet once went to an oak wood in search of a deer. There he met with a very weak and feeble old woman. She showed a bag to the poet and said that she knew his secret which perhaps made the poet very curious. Then the old woman began to shake her bag in a magical way and suddenly the poet found himself surrounded by a tribe and he was tied to a stake.

EXPLANATION: “They Said…but never grew”

The tribes were nothing but the oak trees and they said to the poet that they are his own true family. They expressed their unhappiness saying that human beings chop them down, they torn them up. They threatened the poet that they would kill him unless he made a promise to stop this. They made the poet to make promise that from now on he would plant more trees whenever one tree is cut. If the poet would not make the promise then the old oak tree would devour him.

EXPLANATION: “This was my dream…heart was a tree”

But this incident is not a real incident. It is happening in the dreams of the poet.  But when the poet wakes up his inner conscience has already transformed. He feels sorry for the trees. He on behalf of mankind realizes his mistake and his heart is filled with compassion for the trees.

A Short Summary of the poem, ‘My Own True Family’.

        When the author was a small boy, he went to forest full of Oak trees. He was chasing and searching for a stag in the forest.  There he met an old woman. She terrified him with her appearance and words too. She made funny bird-like sounds. He trembled with fear. He fell unconscious and probably dreamt a dream that is of utmost significance to today’s world.  In his dream he was tied to a wooden stake.  He was surrounded by a tribe of Oak trees. They were looking at him angrily.  The Oak trees told him that they were his friends and true family. But when they were cut off and torn up, the author had not opposed it at all.  So they asked him to promise that he would plant two trees when one is felled down. If did not swear so, they would kill him and root him at the same place among oaks where was born. Although he was born there, he did not grow up near the forest. So he was not aware not had an attitude of saving trees. When he woke up, this dream changed his mind and heart.  Though he came back to his fellow camp mates, now he was a tree in his heart. So he was determined to save trees and greenery.  Initially the poem reflected the simple and timid mentality of children. Later on the author introduced a lesson for the humanity through the dream of a small boy.

Heaven Of English Studies : Theatre script of The Prose 'Three Questions'

Heaven Of English Studies : Theatre script of The Prose 'Three Questions': Film/Theatre script ·         Introduction What is film?      A film is a series of still images which creates an illusion of movin...

Theatre script of The Prose 'Three Questions'

Film/Theatre script

·        Introduction

What is film?

     A film is a series of still images which creates an illusion of moving images when on a screen. This helps us to discover continuous motion between different objects viewed rapidly in succession.

            The process of film-making is both an art and an industry which include an optical sound track, which is a graphic recording of the spoken words, music and other sounds that are needed to accompany the images.

·        What is Theatre?

Theatre is one of the most popular forms of fine art. It is a collaborative form of art. In this form of art we find live performers who present real or imaginary events of our life. It is performed in front of an audience live in an auditorium or sometimes on an open-air state.

·        What is a script?

A script is a written form of outline which contains audio, visual, behavioral and linguistic elements which are needed to present a life-like situation. Script is very important because film and theatre require a team effort consisting of the director, the editor, actors, actresses, technical persons, makeup artistes etc. Together they

Theater Script

Theater Script based on Leo Tolstoy”s Prose, ‘Three Questions’.

Characters: Tsar, Learned man 1, Learned man 2, Learned man 3, Learned man 4, Hermit, Bearded man.

Place: Palace of the Tsar.

                                     Script

                          Seen - I

                                          [Curtains drawn back]

Tsar: (Walking at his palace, thinking and saying in his mind) If I know the right time to begin everything, if I know who are the right people to listen to, and whom to avoid ; and , above all, it I always know what is the most important thing to do, I will never fail in anything I may undertake.

          [Some learned men are coming to the palace and seeing the Tsar]

Learned man -1 : Your Royal Highness, do you have any confusion? Can I help you?

Tsar : Yes, I am just thinking about you all. Can you give me the answer of my questions. If you give me the right answers, I shall give you a great reward to you.

Learned man -2 : (politely) please tell us about your questions.

Tsar : (loudly) I just want to know what is the right time for every action, and who are the most necessary people, and how I may know what is the most important thing to do?

Learned man -3 : My Lord,  I think one must draw up in advance, a table of days, month and years, and must live strictly according to it. Only thus you can be done at its proper time.

Learned man -4 : Your honor, It is impossible to decide before hand the right time for every action: but that, nor letting oneself be absorbed in idle past times, one should always attend to all that is going on, then do what is most needful.

Learned man -1 : Your Royal Highness,  It is impossible for one man to decide correctly the right time for every action, but that he should have a council of wise men, who would help him to fix the proper time for everything.

Learned man -2 : Your honor, it is impossible for the council to make out what is going to happen. It is only magicians who know the right time for every action, one must consult with a magicians. 

Tsar : (Unhappily)  I am not satisfied with your answer. Now tell me who are the most necessary people?

Learned man -1 : Your honour, the most needed are your councilors.

Learned man -2 : My Lord,  I think Priests are the most needed.

Learned man -3 : Your honour, the most needed are the doctors.

Learned man -4 : My Lord, I think the Warriors are the most necessary people.

 Tsar : (In Utter Surprise) No, I think your answers are not fully correct. Now tell me what is the most important thing?

Learned man -1 : Your Royal Highness, the most important thing in the world is science.

Learned man -2 : Your honour, it is the skill in warfare.

Learned man -3 : My Lord, the most important thing in the world is religious worship.

Tsar : (Loudly) Your answers are quite well but I am not satisfied with your answers. Being different answers I do not give any reward to all of you.

                                                    Seen – II

                                 [The Tsar left them and goes to bed]

Tsar : (Saying aside) Now the hermit only can give the answer of my questions because he only has a great innet wisdom. But he only meets with the common folk. So I shall go to meet him indisguish.

[Rising from his bed putting on simple clothes the tsar is going with his body guard to the forest to meet the hermit. Dismounting from his horse and leaving his body-guard behind, going alone to the hermit’s hut.]

Tsar : (Respectfully) your honour, how are you? I have come to ask you to answer of my three questions. How can I learn to do the right thing at the right time? Who are the people I most need, and to whom should I, therefore, pay more attention than to rest? And, what affairs are the most important, and need my first attention?

Hermit:  (listening the and keeping quiet, spit on hand and digging beds)

Tsar : (looking at hermit) You are tired, please give me the spade  and I want to work awhile for you.

Hermit:  (giving the spade and sitting down) Thanks.

Tsar : (digging beds) Excuse me hermit, please give me  the answer of my three questions.

Hermit:  (stretching out his hand for the spade) you have dug two beds. Now rest awhile and let me work a bit.

Tsar : It is a great pleasure to work for you, I am not tired ( continue digging and the sun setting off behind trees, at last striking the spade into the ground) I came to you wise man for an answer of my questions. If you give me none, tell me so, and I will return home.

Hermit:  (pointing out somewhere) Here coming someone running, let’s see who it is?

Tsar : ( turning round and seeing a bearded man come running out of the wood and the holding his hands pressing against his stomach, and blood is flowing from under them) There is a bearded man and a large wound in his belly.

Hermit:  Please do something for him.

Tsar : (unfastening  the man’s cloth, washing the wounds and bandaging with his handkerchief and with a towel of the hermit) Your majesty, the blood is not stopping.

Hermit:  Then again and again remove the bandage soak the wound.

Tsar : (removing the bandage) The blood is ceased and he is reviving and saying something.

Bearded Man :  (moaning) I want to drink water.

Tsar : (bringing a glass of fresh water) Please drink it.

[Lying on the bed the man drinking and closing his eyes and the Tsar crouching down on the threshold and falling asleep]

                                            Seen – III

Tsar : (awaking in the morning) where I am ? Oh! I have come here yesterday.

Bearded Man :  (lying on the bed and gazing intently at the Tsar with shining eyes) My Lord, forgive me!

Tsar : (politely) I don’t know you, and have nothing to forgive you for.

Bearded Man :  My Lord, You don’t know me but I know you. I am that enemy of yours who swore to revenge himself on you, because you executed my brother and sized his property. I knew you have come alone to meet hermit, and I resolved to kill you on your way back. But the day passed you did not return so I came out from my ambush to find you, and I came upon your body guard, and recognized me, they wounded me. I escaped from them, but should have bled to death had you not dressed my wound.

Tsar : Oh! I see.

Bearded Man :  (crying) My Lord, I wished to kill you, and you have saved y life. Now, if I live and if you wish it, I will serve you as your most faithful slave, and will bid my sons do the same please forgive me!

Tsar : I am very glad to have make peace with my enemy so easily, and to gain him for a friend and I not only forgive you, but I would send my servant and my own physician to attend you, and promise to restore your property.

Bearded Man :  (leaving from there) Thanks.

Tsar : (going out into the porch looking around for hermit, seeing the hermit near the beds) your honour, for the last time I pray to answer my questions, wise man.

Hermit:  (sowing seeds in the beds) you and looking at the Tsar) You have already answered.

Tsar : your honour, I can’t understand how you have given the answers.

Hermit:  Do you not see, if you have not pitted my weakness yesterday and have not dug those beds for me, but have gone your way that man would have attacked you, and you would have repented of not having stayed with me.

Tsar : your honour, you are correct but I don’t understand it fully. Please clear it.

Hermit:  So the most important time was when you were digging the beds and I was the most important man and to do me good was your most important business.

Tsar : your honour, I quite understand it. Please define more wise man.

Hermit:  When the man ran to us, the most important time was when you were attending to him, for you had not bound up his wounds he would have died without having made peace with you. So he was the most important and what you did for him was your important business. Remember then: there is only one time that is important – Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. The most necessary man is he with whom you are, for no man knows he will ever have dealings with anyone else: and the most important affairs is, to do him good, because for that purpose alone was man sent into this life.

Tsar : your honour, you are great. I understand clearly. Thank you.

                                                          [Curtains]

Theatre Script of Strong Roots (Wings of fire) For a Project work of class -XII

Film/Theatre script

·        Introduction

What is film?

     A film is a series of still images which creates an illusion of moving images when on a screen. This helps us to discover continuous motion between different objects viewed rapidly in succession.

            The process of film-making is both an art and an industry which include an optical sound track, which is a graphic recording of the spoken words, music and other sounds that are needed to accompany the images.

·        What is Theatre?

Theatre is one of the most popular forms of fine art. It is a collaborative form of art. In this form of art we find live performers who present real or imaginary events of our life. It is performed in front of an audience live in an auditorium or sometimes on an open-air state.

·        What is a script?

A script is a written form of outline which contains audio, visual, behavioral and linguistic elements which are needed to present a life-like situation. Script is very important because film and theatre require a team effort consisting of the director, the editor, actors, actresses, technical persons, makeup artistes etc. Together they

Theater Script

Theater Script based on A.P.J.Abdul Kalam’s autobiography ‘Strong Root’ (Wings of Fire)

Characters: Kalam, Kalam’s Father (Jainulabdeen) , Klam’s mother (Ashiamma)

Place: House of the Kalam

                                     Script

                          Seen - I

                                               [Curtains drawn back]

[In the reading room Kalam was reading and Kalam’s father enters wearing traditional attire]

Jainulabdeen : (Enters into the room where  Kalam was reading) What are you reading Kalam?

Kalam : (respectfully) Father, I just reading the history of India.

Janulabdeen : (casually) Kalam, do you know anything about our Rameswaram?

Kalam :  (loudly) Rameswaram is the island town in the erstwhile of Madras State.

Jainulabdeen: Yes, you are fully correct.

Kalam: Father (politely) I want to know about you.

Jainulabdeen: (In a dreamy way) I am very proud of my son. You ask a good question. (In low voice) I had neither much formal education nor much wealth and despite these disadvantages I have been continuing my religious cultural life. You were born in a middle class Tamil family.

Kalam:  (respectfully) I know father.

Jainulabdeen: I know my son knows everything. Do you know Kalam how many people feed at our home?

Kalam : No, I don’t recall the exact number father.

Jainulabdeen : (Standing from Sitting) Do you know anything about your mother’s family?

Kalam : (Respectfully Saying) My mother’s linage is the more distinguished, one of her forbears having been bestowed the of ‘Bhadur’ by British. I also  know you are the ideal couple.

Jainulabdeen: (Sitting) what do you know about your house?

Kalam : I live in our ancestral house, which was built in the middle of the 19^th century and it is fairly large pucca house, made of limestone and brick, on the Mosque street in Rameswaram.

Jainulabdeen: (In a dreamy way) yes, you are fully correct. I am proud of my son. You see, I always avoid all inessential comforts and luxuries, and I want to give my all essential things to you but I am not a reach man. I only can give you cloths, foods and medicine.

Kalam : You are very good father. I don’t need anything father. I have a very secure childhood, materially and emotionally.

Jainulabdeen : Ok my son, now close your book and you go to eat.

Kalam: Ok, Thank your father.

                                         Seen - II

[Mother is in kitchen, decorating food items, Kalam running to the kitchen]

Kalam : (sitting on the floor of Kitchen) mother I am hungry, please give me food.

Ashiamma  : (looking at Kalam)  Don’t hurry Kalam. Is there any banana leaf?

Kalam : No, mom.

Ashiamma : ( come with banana leaf and foods ) Kalam take this banana leaf.

Kalam : (take the leaf and place it) mother how many things you have cooked today?

Ashiamma  : (Smilingly) Today’s items are rice, aromatic sambar, sharp, pickle and coconut chutney. (gives them one by one and sitting beside Kalam)

Kalam : Thank you mother, I have completed my eating.

                                                      Seen – III

[In the evening  Kalam going with his father to a Mosque for evening prayer wearing a traditional attire]

Kalam : (Suddenly) Father, why does our Rameswaram famous for?

Jainulabdeen : (simply saying) Rameswaram is famous for the Shiva temple and you know it is about ten-minute walk from our house.

Kalam : Father, is there any Hindu?

Jainulabdeen : (loudly) yes, our locality is predominantly Muslims, but there are a lot of Hindu families too, living amicable with their Muslims neighbors.

[Reaches at the Mosque and returning after prayer]

Kalam : (Curiously)Why are the people waiting for you out side of the Mosque?

Jainulabdeen: They are waiting to solve their problem.

[Near to the people Kalam seeing many of them offer bowls of water to his father and father dips his fingertips in them and say a prayer, someone gives him thank and then they going in front of Rameswaram Temple]

Kalam : (indicating some in front of Temple) Father, who is the person at the Temple?

Jainulabdeen: (Softly) He is Pakshi Lakshmana Sastry, the high Perist of Rameswaram Temple. He is also a very close friend of mine and I often discussing spiritual matters with him. Now let’s go home.

                                                      Seen – IV

[This routine is going for some years , Kalam is now eighteen years old, in the reading room Kalam was reading and Kalam’s father enters wearing traditional attire]

Kalam: Father, I have a question in my mind. What is the relevance of prayer?

Jainulabdeen:  (Thinking something and saying) Nothing is mysterious about prayer. It makes possible a communion of the spirit between people when you pray; you transcend your body and become a part of the cosmos, which knows no division of wealth, age, caste or creed.

Kalam: Father, Is there anything good or bad?

Jainulabdeen: In my own time, in my own place, in what I really am, and in this stage I have reached –good or bad – every human being a specific element within the whole of the manifest Devine Being.

Kalam: Then why do we afraid of difficulties, sufferings, and problems?

Jainulabdeen:  (Standing) when troubles come, try to understand the relevance of your sufferings because Adversity always presents opportunities for introspection.

Kalam: (Respectfully) Why don’t you say this to the people who come to you for help and advice?

 Jainulabdeen:   (puts his hand on Kalam’s shoulders and looks straight into Kalams eyes, and answering in a low, deep voice) When ever human beings find themselves alone, as a natural reaction, they start looking for company. Whenever they reach an impasse, they look to someone to show them the way out. For the people who came to me in distress, I am but a go between in their effort to propitiate demonic forces with prayers and offerings.

Kalam: (listening motionlessly with enthusiasm) Oh! What a speech. I shall remember this forever and ever.

Jainulabdeen:   (interrupting) I know this is not correct approach at all and should never be followed. You must understand the difference between a fear-ridden vision of destiny and the vision that enables to seek the enemy of fulfillment within ourselves.

Kalam:  Father , is there anything special to rise early ?

Jainulabdeen:   Yes, you know I start my day at 4 a.m. by reading namaz before dawn, and walks four miles to go coconut grove.  I return by walking with a dozen of coconut tide together thorn over my shoulder. It’s a great exercise.

Kalam:  (politely saying) Father, I throughout my life try to follow you and your Devine theory also. You are my best guide and teacher.