Target Audience: Polytechnic Teachers and Students in Tamilnadu
Subject: English-1, II YEAR MOP, M SCHEME
Objective: Students should be able to interpret and explain a poem in English.
Question Pattern in Exam: IV. Answer any THREE questions in a paragraph each in 100 words : (3 x 5=15)
Four questions from 4 poems will be given in the exam and students should answer three questions in 100 words.
........................................................................
1. How does the poet describe the migration of the Bird season after season?
A bird lives in a country only when the season is favourable to it. If winter comes, the bird has to suffer without enough food, in shiver. So whenever there is winter, the bird migrates to a country where there is summer. Thus, season after season, the bird is moving between two distant places. It is the bird’s love for life, survival that forces it for migration. It is just like a man moving from one city to another city for his survival.
2. What does the poet mean when he claims that by going away the bird comes home only?
Birds which migrate from England to Australia, again migrate to England due to winter season. So they have two homes- England and Australia. If they go away from England, it means that they come home, (to Australia). If they return to England, again it means that they come home, (to England). Because both places are their homes only. The bird here refers to not only the bird but also those people who migrated from England to Australia to settle there. Due to home sickness, they again return to England after some years.
3. Describe the last migration of the Bird?
The very phrase, “last migration” indirectly refers to the last journey of the Bird during which it is going to die. The bird is flying in the sky, crossing several dangerous places beneath her – deserts, valleys, unnatural Palm trees, temples, palaces and moorland cliffs. Death is hinted by abnormalities in nature. For example, the poet says that Palm tree is casting a shadow that is not its own shadow. Migration means survival. But this last migration implies death.
4. How did the bird die?
The bird suddenly lost its way. It was left alone, away from her companions. It became single and weak. It felt that it was the appointed season by God for her death. The invisible thread between soul and body broke. It’s instinct failed. It died and fell down on earth. Since there happens thousands of deaths on earth everyday, the earth received the bird’s body, just as a small burden. It had no grief for, and no malice against the bird.
Subject: English-1, II YEAR MOP, M SCHEME
Objective: Students should be able to interpret and explain a poem in English.
Question Pattern in Exam: IV. Answer any THREE questions in a paragraph each in 100 words : (3 x 5=15)
Four questions from 4 poems will be given in the exam and students should answer three questions in 100 words.
........................................................................
1. How does the poet describe the migration of the Bird season after season?
A bird lives in a country only when the season is favourable to it. If winter comes, the bird has to suffer without enough food, in shiver. So whenever there is winter, the bird migrates to a country where there is summer. Thus, season after season, the bird is moving between two distant places. It is the bird’s love for life, survival that forces it for migration. It is just like a man moving from one city to another city for his survival.
2. What does the poet mean when he claims that by going away the bird comes home only?
Birds which migrate from England to Australia, again migrate to England due to winter season. So they have two homes- England and Australia. If they go away from England, it means that they come home, (to Australia). If they return to England, again it means that they come home, (to England). Because both places are their homes only. The bird here refers to not only the bird but also those people who migrated from England to Australia to settle there. Due to home sickness, they again return to England after some years.
3. Describe the last migration of the Bird?
The very phrase, “last migration” indirectly refers to the last journey of the Bird during which it is going to die. The bird is flying in the sky, crossing several dangerous places beneath her – deserts, valleys, unnatural Palm trees, temples, palaces and moorland cliffs. Death is hinted by abnormalities in nature. For example, the poet says that Palm tree is casting a shadow that is not its own shadow. Migration means survival. But this last migration implies death.
4. How did the bird die?
The bird suddenly lost its way. It was left alone, away from her companions. It became single and weak. It felt that it was the appointed season by God for her death. The invisible thread between soul and body broke. It’s instinct failed. It died and fell down on earth. Since there happens thousands of deaths on earth everyday, the earth received the bird’s body, just as a small burden. It had no grief for, and no malice against the bird.
thank you for the information
ReplyDeleteLove this!
ReplyDelete