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Tamil Nadu Board 9th Standard English - Poem Unit 5: Book Back Answers and Solutions

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Unit 5: River

B. Read the following lines and answer the questions given below.

1. O’er the yellow pebbles dancing,
Through the flowers and foliage glancing

a) How does the river flow?
    The river flows by dancing over the yellow pebbles.

b) What is meant by ‘foliage’?
    'Foliage' refers to a cluster of leaves, flowers, and branches.

2. River, river! Swelling river!
On you rush through rough and smooth;

a) Why does the poet mention the river to be swelling?
    The poet mentions the river to be swelling to emphasize its intensity and increasing volume.

b) What are the surfaces the river flow through?
    The river flows through both rough and smooth surfaces.

3. Over rocks, by rose-banks, sweeping
Like impetuous youth.

a) Where does the rose grow?
    Roses grow by the rose-banks.

b) Which stage of man is compared here?
    The stage of impetuous youth is compared here.

4. Broad and deep, and still as time;
Seeming still, yet still in motion.

a) What is broad and deep?
    The river is described as broad and deep.

b) Is the time still?
    The comparison is made between the river and time. While the river may appear still, it is still in motion, much like time itself.

5. Tending onward to the ocean,
Just like mortal prime.

a) Where is the river flowing to?
    The river is flowing onward to the ocean.

b) What does the poet mean by ‘mortal prime’?
    'Mortal prime' refers to the prime or peak of human life.

C. Read the following lines and answer the questions.

1. Bright you sparkle on your way;
O’er the yellow pebbles dancing,
Through the flowers and foliage glancing,
Like a child at play.
 

Pick out the rhyming words.
way and play
dancing and glancing

2. Mention the rhyme scheme of the poem.
Stanza 1-3 – abccb; stanza 4 - abccd

3. Through the flowers and foliage glancing,
Like a child at play.
 

Mention the figure speech used in the above line. Give various other examples from the poem.
simile
"Like a silver thread"
"Like a fairy dream"
"Like a mighty giant"

4. Seeming still, yet still in motion
a. Pick out the words in alliteration from the above line
Seeming,  still

b. Identify other examples from the poem for alliteration.
Rocks, rose
Sea, sounded

5. Pick out the examples for epithet from the poem.
Swelling river, brimming river, mortal prime

6. Pick out the examples for imagery from the poem.
Through the flowers and foliage glancing
Yellow pebbles
brawling, leaping
Broad and deep, and still as time

D. Answer the questions in a paragraph of about 120-150 words.

1. How does the poet bring about the comparison of life with the river? Explain it with reference to the poem.
        In the poem ‘The River’ the poet compares the river with the different stages in a man’s life. The river is bright sparkling on its way. It dances over the yellow pebbles. It glances through the flowers and foliage. 

        It is like a child at play. The river is selling and rushing through rough and smooth surfaces. It is brawling and leaps. It goes through the rough rocks and rose-banks. It is compared to a reckless youth.
        The river is full, wide, and deep. it is still like time. It appears motionless but keeps moving to the ocean. It is like life in its prime. l’he river runs quickly into the sea. The line has never measured the depth of the sea. No ship has ever rounded the sea company. the river is compared to eternity.

2. Describe how the poem clearly describes the features, functions, and destructive power of the river.
        A river is a natural flowing watercourse towards an ocean. Rivers are part of the hydrological cycle. Water generally collects in a river from precipitation through a drainage basin from the surface runoff.

        Groundwater recharge, springs and glaciers are the other sources. Rivers can flow from mountains, through valleys or along planes. Rivers are sources of water consumption, agriculture and industry. The flow of water in rivers is never constant.
        High amount of water flowing in rivers after leads to flooding. Flooding is one of the more common and costly types of disasters. A flood results when a river runs out of its confines and submerges the surrounding areas. 

        However, floods have enormous destructive power. Flood occur naturally. They can environment. It is not always possible to prevent floods but it is after possible to minimize flood damage.
 

E. Based on your understanding of the poem, complete the summary of the poem by choosing the words/phrases given below.

    In the poem ‘The River’, the poet compares the flow of the river with different (1)_________ The first stanza explains how the sparkling river goes dancing over (2)_________ and glancing through the flowers and leaves. These acts of the river is compared to a curious and innocent (3)_________ at play. The second stanza compares the river to a (4)_________ who goes through rough and smooth patches of life. Like a youth, here the river becomes louder, faster, and (5)_________ everything all along the way. In the third stanza, the river becomes like a hard-working man who is at the (6)_________ of life. Here the deep and broad river seems (7)_________ but it keeps moving towards the sea like a matured man who silently marches towards the goal. In the last stanza, the long (8)_________ of the river reaches the endless sea like a human life attains eternity
Answer Key:

1. Stages of human life.
2. The yellow pebbles
3. Child.
4. Reckless youth
5. Sweeping
6. Prime phase
7. Motionless
8. Journey