Chapter-3
Now the
Leaves Are Falling Fast
-W.H. Auden
Biography
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Born-1907 died-1973
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Won Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for The Age of Anxiety.
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Poetry was a “serious game”
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Left England in 1939.
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Work is divided into British and American phase.
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British phase works- The Orators, The Dance of Death, Look
Stranger, Spain and Another Time.
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American Phase Works New Year Letter, For the Time Being, The Age
of Anxiety and The Shield of Achilles.
Summary: “Now the leaves are falling fast” is one of the
finest lyric poems which has been composed by the modern poet W.H Auden. The
title of this poem suggests us about the death of human beings like the
falling fast of leaves.
Human beings are going to their grave very fast due
to suffering and diseases. In this poem, the poet tries to expose the
frustration and crisis in modern life. The poet says that all fake love to one
another. The messenger of death is present to snatch the real delight of
people.
People who are alive today will die tomorrow. This
expression suggests that human life is no better than death. The underlying
idea in this poem is that death is certain. Like tree man also has to meet his
end someday.
Objective
Question Answer
1.
“Now
the Leaves Are Falling Fast” is written by…………..
a)John Keats b)John Donne c)W.H. Auden
2.
W.H
Auden was born in………
a)1907 B)1910 C)1930
3.
W.H.
Auden died in…………….
a)1973 b)1970 c)1980
4.
W.H
Auden won the Pulitzer Prize in…
a)1950 b)1948 c)1960
5.
W.H
Auden won Pulitzer Prize for……………
a)New Year Letter b)The Orators c)The Age of Anxiety
6.
In the
second line of the poem, ‘Now the Leaves are falling Fast’ ‘Nurse’ stands…….
a)a mango b)a fruit c)a tree
7.
“Whispering
neighbours, left and right’ is a line from the poem…………
a)An Epitaph b)Song of Myself c)Now the leaves are falling fast
8.
W.H
Auden left England in…….
a)1935 b)1939 c)1945
9.
The………….of
death are the whispering neighbor.
a)friends b)enemies c)messenger
10.
Auden’s
work is divided into…………………..phases.
a)4 b)3 c)2
11.
‘Nurse’s
flowers will not last’ is a line written by……………
a) John Donne b)John Keats c)W H Auden
12.
Auden’s
work is divided into the British and ………..phase.
A)Indian b)Russian c)American
13.
New
year letter by W.H Auden is…….
a)Indian phase b)American
Phase c)British phase
14.
Look
Stranger, Spain, Another Time by Auden is………………phase
a)Indian b)American c)British
15.
The
orators, the dance of death by Auden is…….......
a)Russian phase b)American
phase c)British phase
16.
The age
of anxiety, For the time Being, The Sheild of Achilles by Auden is………..
a)British Phase b)American
Phase c)Indian Phase
17.
Now the
leaves are falling fast is……..
a)song b)sonnets c)lyric
18.
………………..persons
are travelers.
a)young b)new c)dull
19.
Trees
shed their leaves in……………….
a)winter b)autumn c)summer
20.
………….waterfall
could bless the travelers passing through that way.
a)white b)yellow c)red
21.
The
leaves are falling…………………
a)slow b)good c)fast
22.
The
………has become dumb to see the leafless trees.
a)hen b)sparrow c)nightingale
23.
‘Now
the leaves are falling fast’ is……….
a)a sonnet b)a lyric c)an ode
24.
The
prams are……..
a)running b)standing c)rolling
25.
The
travelers are we………………..beings, moving towards our death.
a)angel b)human c)urban
26.
The falling of…………………refer to the speedy
arrival of death.
a)leaves b)rain c)dust
Explain the
following lines
1. “Now the
leaves are falling fast
Nurse’s flower will not last
Nurses to the graves are gone
And the proms go rolling on”
Answer- This stanza has been taken from the poem ‘Now the leaves are falling
fast’ which is written by W. H Auden. The poet says that the leaves of the
branches of the free are falling and the frees are becoming leafless. It
depicts that a person is slowly moving to its death and atleast in grave.
Everything perishes.
जिस poem के लाइन में White,
mountain, nurse, false left right, food, freeze, cold, nightingale, wooden,
reprove रहे तो poet का नाम W.H. Auden लिख देंगे.
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