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Unseen Poem for Class 12

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Unseen Poem for Class 12 – Poem 1

Hark! Over the roof then makes a pause And growls as if he would fix his claws Right in the slates and with a huge rattle

Drive them down, like men in a battle: But let him range round: he does us no harm:

We build up the fire, we’re snug and warm. Come, now we’ll to bed! and when we are there. He may work his own will and what shall we care?

He may knock at the door, we’ll not let him in. May drive at the windows, we’ll laugh at the ding Let him seek his own home wherever it be

Here’s a cosy warm house for Edward and me.

Questions and Answers – Poem 1

  1. Q. How does the poet show the fearful face of the wind?
  2. Q. What is the attitude of the speaker towards the wind?
  3. Q. How does the poet describe the wind over the roof?

Answers:-

  1. Ans The poet shows the fearful face of the wind with the use of the words ‘growl’ and ‘claws. Wild animals terrify with their claws and growling sound
  2. Ans The attitude of the speaker towards the wind is numerous. He laughs as as if he were making fun of it.
  3. Ans The poet described the wind over the roof as the wind proses over the roof. But it grows after that as if it would fix its claws in the states Then it rattles with its claws and drives them down like men in battle.

Unseen Poem for Class 12 CBSE – Poem 2

The Laburnum top is silent, quite still
In the afternoon yellow September sunlight,
A few leaves yellowing, all its seeds fallen.
Till the goldfinch comes, with a twitching chirrup
A suddenness, a startlement, at a branch end.
Then sleek as a lizard, and alert, and abrupt,
She enters the thickness, and a machine starts up
Of chitterings, and a tremor of wings, and trillings
The whole tree trembles and thrills.
It is the engine of her family.
She stokes it full, then flirts out to a branch-end
Showing her barred face identity mask.
Then with eerie delicate whistle-chirrup whisperings
She launches away, towards the infinite
And the laburnum subsides to empty.

Questions and Answers – Poem 2

Word-Meanings:- laburnum = अमलतास का वृक्ष। quite = पूरी तरह से still = स्थिर। sunlight = धूप। yellowing = पीली हो रहीं। fallen = गिर चुके। goldfinch = सोनचिड़ी (सोनचिड़िया)। twitching = एक झटके के साथ। chirrup = चहचहाहट। suddenness = अचानक होने का भाव। startlement = चौंक जाने का भाव। end = छोर, किनारा। sleek = चिकनी, चमकदार। lizard = छिपकलि। abrupt = अचानक, अप्रत्याशित। thickness = सधनता। chitterings = चहचहाटें। tremor = तीव्र कम्पन्न। trillings = तीव्र स्वर। trembles = काँप उठता है। thrills = रोमांचित हो उठता है। flirts out = फुदकती है। barred = धारीदार। eerie = अद्भुत। delicate = नाजुक। whistle-chirrup = सीटी जैसी चहचहाहट की आवाज। infinite = अनन्त। subsides = शांत रह जाता है। empty = खाली

  1. Q. How does the goldfinch come?
  2. Q. Why has the tree been called engine of her family?
  3. Q. What has happened to the seeds of the laburnum (tree)?
  4. Q. What happens to the laburnum when the goldfinch flies away?
  5. Q. With whom has a goldfinch been compared in sleekness?

Answers:-

  1. Ans. The goldfinch comes with twitching chirrup.
  2. Ans. Like an engine, the tree is filled with shrill sounds of the goldfinch family. So the tree has been called the engine of her family.
  3. Ans. All the seeds of the laburnum (tree) have fallen.
  4. Ans. When the goldfinch flies away the laburnum is left empty.
  5. Ans. Goldfinch has been compared to a lizard in sleekness.

Unseen Poem for Class 12 with answers – Poem 3

My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a watered shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thickest fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
Because my love is come to me.
Raise me a dais of silk and down;
Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
Carve it in doves and pomegranates,
And peacocks with a hundred eyes,
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.

….. [C.G. Rossette]

Questions and Answers – Poem 3

  1. Q. Which feeling is expresed by which comparisons ?
  2. Q. Explain : Because my love is come to me.
  3. Q. What is the rhyming scheme of the poem ?
  4. Q. How is this poem a pictorial one ?
  5. Q. Why does the poet ask for a celebratory platform to be raised ?

Answers:-

  1. Ans. The feeling of love is expressed by comparing her heart to a singing bird, a fruit laden apple tree and a rainbow shell.
  2. Ans.The poet is delighted because her love (divine or human) is coming to her. The Christian symbols in the poem reflect divine love.
  3. Ans.The rhyming scheme of the poem is irregular one. The last words of the lines are unrhymed.
  4. Ans. This poem is full of nature pictures a fruit laden apple tree, a rainbow shell, doves, pomegranates, peacocks, gold and silver grapes etc.
  5. Ans. The poet asks for a celebratory platform to be raised because her love, described as her birthday, has arrived.

Unseen Poem for Class 12 with MCQ – Poem 4

As a young citizen of India,
Armed with technology,
knowledge And love for my nation,
I realize, small aim is a crime.
I will work and sweat for a great vision,
The vision of transforming India
Into a developed nation,
Powered by economic strength with value system.
I am one of the citizens of a billion,
Only the vision will ignite the billion souls.
It has entered into me.
The ignited soul compared to any resource
Is the most powerful resource
On the earth, above the earth and under the earth.
I will keep the lamp of knowledge burning
To achieve the vision

….Developed India.

Questions and Answers – Poem 4

Word-Meanings:- armed = (यहाँ) सुसज्जित। technology = तकनीक। sweat = घोर या कठिन परिश्रम करना। vision = परिकल्पना। transforming = पूर्ण रूप से बदल देना। powered by economic growth = आर्थिक शक्ति से सम्पन्न। value system = नैतिक सिध्दान्त। billion = एक अरब। ignite = (यहाँ) प्रेरित या प्रोत्साहित करना। ignited = प्रेरित या प्रोत्साहित। resource = साधन

  1. Q. What can we do by working hard?
  2. Q. According to the poet which is the most powerful resource to make India a developed nation?
  3. Q. How should a citizen of India be?
  4. Q. What should we do to achieve the vision of making India a developed nation?
  5. Q. Who should have a vision to make India a developed country?

Answers:-

  1. Ans By working hard we can transform our nation into a developed nation.
  2. Ans The ignited soul is the most powerful resource to make India a developed nation.
  3. Ans A citizen of India should be armed with technology and knowledge.
  4. Ans We should keep the lamp of knowledge burning to achieve this vision.
  5. Ans Every Indian citizen should have a vision to see this great nation, as a developed country with vigorous economic growth based on moral values.

Unseen Poem for Class 12 In English – Poem 5

I know I shall meet my fate
Some where among the clouds above;
Those that fight I do not hate,
Those that I guard I do not love;
My country is Kiltartan Cross,
My country-men Kiltartan’s poor;
No likely end could bring them loss
Or leave them happier than before.
Nor law nor duty bade me fight,
No public men, nor cheering crowds,
A lonely impulse of delight
Drove this tumult in the clouds;
I balanced all, brought all to mind,
The years to come seemed waste of breath.
A waste of breath the years behind
In balance with this life, this death.
…..[WB Yeats]

Questions and Answers – Poem 5

  1. Q. What mood of the poet does the poem reflect ?
  2. Q. Give the poem a title.
  3. Q. Enlist the rhyming word in the poem
  4. Q. What lesson does this poem give ?
  5. Q. ……….. waste of breath, Comment on the phrase in the light of the poem.

Answers:-

  1. Ans The mood of the poet is pessimistic. He mourns and memorizes the death of his friend, an Irish airman, Robert Gregory. But he keeps himself balanced in life and death.
  2. Ans An Irish Airman forsees His Death Or A Waste of Breath
  3. Ans fate-hate, above-love, cross-loss, poor-before, fight-delight, crowds-clouds, mind behind, breath-death,
  4. Ans This poem gives a number of lessons. Be action oriented even you forsee death, without wasting your breath is one of them.
  5. Ans The Irish Airman wastes his breath because his country is still under the British rule. To live as a slave is a waste of breath.

Unseen Poem for Class 12 ICSE – Poem 6

You cannot call this true devotion,
To bathe one’s forehead and apply the tilak
Without cleaning the impurities of the heart.
That cruel cur desire
Has bound me with the cord of greed.
The butcher of anger remains within me,
How can I hope to meet Gopal?
The greedy senses are like a cat,
And I keep on giving them food.
Weakened by my hunger for sense-objects
I do not take the name of God.
I worship not God but myself,
And glow with recstasy.
Now that I have built up
This towering rock of pride,
Where can the water of true wisdom collect?

Questions and Answers – Poem 6

Word-Meanings:- devotion = पूजा, भक्ति। apply = लगाना। cleansing = साफ करना। impurities = गन्दगी,अशुद्वियाँ cur = आक्रामक कृता desire = इच्छा, तृष्णा bound = बाँधा cord = बाँधा, डोरी greed = इच्छा,ललच butcher = कसाई remains = रहता है बना हुआ है senses = इन्द्रियाँ weakened = कामजोर बना दी गयीं,कर दी गयीं sense-objects = इन्द्रियों को विषय glow = चमकना, दमकना ecstasy = अत्यधिक प्रसन्नता towering = अत्यधिक ऊँची wisdom = बुद्धिमानी,समझदारी

  1. Q. What is needed for true devotion?
  2. Q. What is ‘food’ for senses?
  3. Q. What is applying tilak a symbol of?
  4. Q. What keeps wisdom away?
  5. Q. Find the examples of metaphor in the second stanza.

Answers:-

  1. Ans Impurities of heart need be cleaned for true devotion.
  2. Ans Sense-objects are ‘food’ for senses.
  3. Ans Applying tilak is a symbol of making a show of devotion.
  4. Ans Pride keeps wisdom away.
  5. Ans The examples of metaphor in the second stanza are
    • cruel cur desire
    • cord of greed
    • butcher of anger

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