An
Epitaph
-Walter de la Mare
An
Epitaph is written by Walter de la Mare. Epitaph is tomb of a dead body. Where
lies a beautiful lady.
Actually poet loved very much to that lady. She was very beautiful. One day that
lady died and buried finally in the grave. So in this poem poet is expressing
his sad feeling for a lady who is lying in a grave. The poet goes to the tomb
which was made in the memory of that lady. He weeps there bitterly and thinks
who will remember her after his death. The poet is in the opinion that man is
mortal and soul is immortal. Poet says body falls down into pieces but soul
changes the other new body to live. The poet says whoever comes on the earth
must die. But their fame remains permanently in this universe.
Objective
Question Answer
1.
“An Epitaph”
is written by……………………
a)John Keats.
b)John Donne
c)Walter de la Mare
2.
Walter de la
Mare was born in…………………….
a)1873
b)1892
c)1884
3.
‘And when I
crumble, who will remember’ is written……………….
a)John Keats b)John Donne c)Walter de la Mare
4.
‘Light of
step and heart was she’ is taken from………….
a)The Soldier b)Fire-Hymn c)An Epitaph
5.
Walter de la
Mare died in……………….
a)1956 b)1965 c)1967
6.
‘An Epitaph’
deals with a beautiful………………
a)girl b)baby c)lady
7.
Walter de la
Mare belonged to…………..century.
a)19th b)20th c)18th
m
8.
Walter de la
Mare was born in the village of……………..in Kent England.
a)Charlton b)West Hills c)Camden
9.
The tone of
the poem, ‘An Epitaph’ means to…………..
a)happy b)melancholy c)romantic
10.
He lost his
father at the age of………………
a)8 b)5 c)4
11.
The lady
mentioned in the poem, ‘An Epitaph’ belonged to……….
a)the north country b)the
east country c)the west
country
12.
‘Songs for
Children’, ‘Peacock Pie’ is written
by………………..
a)Walt Whitman b)Rupert Brooke c)Walter de la Mare
13.
Walter de la
Mare knew a………………..who is now dead.
a)a)lady b)man c)king
14.
The poet
thinks that …………………. is not overlasting.
a)violence b)beauty b)ugliness.
15.
The poet
feels that after his death nobody will……………her.
a)hurt b)remember c)love
16.
Walter de la
Mare received the ‘Order of Merit’ with Queen Elizabeth-II in……………..
a)1951 b)1952 c)1953
17.
The lady
belonged to the………………Country.
a)North b)West c)South
18.
The poet considers
her the most………………lady.
a)intelligent b)beautiful c)popular
19.
The lady
lies in………………..
a)grave b)room c)hotel
Questions
& Answers
1.
Where does
the lady lie? How does she look to poet?
She lies in her grave. The poet thinks that she was the most beautiful lady
that ever lived in the West Country.
2.
What does
the poet think about ‘beauty’?
The poet thinks that beauty is fleeting. Even the rarest beauty must perish.
3.
What does
the poet mean when he says ‘And when I crumble’?
The poet means ‘When I die, when I am no more’.
4.
What will
happen when the poet dies?
The memory of the beautiful lady of the western country is alive in the heart
of the poet. When he dies, nobody will ever think of her.
5.
Why is the
poet sad? Give two reasons.
The poet is sad that even a most beautiful lady had to die. He is also sad that
nobody would remember her after his death.
6.
What were
two qualities of her character?
She was light of step and light of heart.
7.
What,
according to the poet are two qualities of beauty?
According to Walter de la Mare, beauty vanishes and beauty passes. Vanish and
pass both mean coming to an end.
Explain
the following lines
1.
Here lies a
most beautiful lady.
Light of step and heart was she.
I think she was the most beautiful lady.
That ever was in the west country
But beauty vanishes, beauty passes.
The given stanza has been take from the poem “An Epitaph” which is written by Walter de la Mare. He was born in
1873 in the village of Charlton in Kent.
In
this poem poet says that the beautiful lady lies in the Epitaph. She is there
in the memory of her beloved. The poet finds her to be most beautiful lady in
West Country. But he feels that beauty is short lived and vanishes very fast.
जिस poem line में beautiful lady, west country, crumble,
vanishes, ……………………………….. रहे तो poet का नाम Walter De La Mare लिख देंगे|
Chapter-6
The
Soldier
-Rupert Brooke
The
soldier is a patriotic poem in form of sonnet composed by the great war poet
Rupert Brooke. The poet describes the feeling of an English Soldier who goes to
a foreign country to fight for his own country. He feels that the piece of
foreign land where he will be buried in case of death, will be forever England.
He considers the piece of foreign land to be England because he was born and
brought up in England. He also expresses his sense of gratitude of his country
for everything he got there the flowers, the air he breathes, the laughter that
he has learnt from friends. Thus the poem shows the poet’s great love for his
mother land.
Objective
Question Answer
1.
Soldier’ is written
by………………….
a)John Donne b)John Keats c)Rupert Brooke
2.
speaker of the poem ‘the soldier’
is a………………
a)soldier b)thief c)plumber
3.
A poem consisting of…………..lines is a sonnet.
a)12 b)16 c)14
4.
The Soldier is a ……………….poem.
a)hate b)war c)sad
5.
The images and praises of…………………run through both the stanzas.
a)Brazil b)England c)Finland
6.
Rupert Brooke speaks in the guise of an………….soldier.
a)English b)Dutch c)Indian
7.
…………………is inevitable.
a)death b)life c)punishment
8.
The speaker is not afraid of………….
a)tiger b)storm c)death
9.
The dust stands for the………………
a)soldier b)sweeper c)carpenter
10.
The place where the soldier would be buried should be treated as
the part of………….after his death.
a)England b)Holland c)Portugal
11.
Rupert Brooke was born in………….
a)1887 b)1880 c)1860
12.
Rupert Brooke died in…………
a)1915 b)1920 c)1930
13.
Rupert Brooke was described ‘the handsomest young man in England’
by whom…..
a)John Keats b)WB Yeats c)Shakespeare
14.
Rupert Brooke died because of…..
a)septicaemia b)Cancer c)TB
15.
Rupert Brooke was……….poet.
a)War b)Sad c)metaphysical
16.
The Soldier is……
a)song b)sonnet c)ode
17.
The Soldier is…………….poem.
a)a symbolic b)a
lyrical c)a patriotic
18.
‘Idealistic Patriotism’ is the essence of…………..
a)If b)The Soldier c)Echo
19.
How many times the poet uses ‘England’ in the poem ‘The Soldier’?
a)6 b)4 c)2
20.
‘The Soldier’ was written and published during what major war?
a)World War-I b)World
World-II c)Spanish-America War
21.
The word ‘eternal’ means…………
a)forever b)sometimes c)at times
22.
The poet Rupert Brooke belonged to……………..
a)20th century b)21th
century c)19th
century
23.
Brooke inspired patriotism in the………….phase of the First War
World.
a)early b)middle c)late
Questions & Answers
1.
Is the
speaker afraid of death?
The soldier thinks he will die sooner or later. But he is not afraid of death.
2.
If at all he
dies in the battle, how would he like to be remembered?
He wishes to be remembered as a patriot. He wishes that his grave, wherever it
is, is thought to be part of England.
3.
What is
meant by the phrase ‘A pulse in the eternal mind’?
‘A pulse in the eternal mind’ here means the poet’s heart that willever be
beating for England.
4.
‘In that
rich earth a richer dust concealed.’ What does ‘dust’ stand for?
‘Dust’ here stands for the body of the poet.
5.
How can
‘some corner of a foreign field’ be
‘forever England’?
The poet says that his body is rich dust of England. He was born and bred in
England. So wherever his body is buried, it will be England forever.
Explain
the following lines
1.
If I should
die, think only this of me: That there’s some corner of a foreign field. That
is forever England.
The poet admires England and expresses his gratitude. He describes about
foreign land in which he will be buried after his death and that land will
remain a part of England forever.
