Risk
Q. 1 What is success?
Ans. Success is the result of courage and risk. Mean to say when we develop the sense of courage and take risk to do any work then the result of the risk appears in the form of success.
Q. 2 Who is truly free?
Ans. According to the poet the person who takes risks in his life to do any work is truly free.
Q. 3 What is the greatest hazard in life?
Ans. The greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing, without taking risks a man cannot do anything, becomes valueless himself in his life.
Q. 4 What is immediate advantage of avoiding risks?
Ans. The immediate advantage of avoid risk is that one can avoid suffering and sorrow caused by failure. He can also avoid chance of failure but it also means losing the chance to success.
Q. 5 What is the theme of the poem „Risks‟? OR Write the theme/central idea/message of the poem.
Ans. The theme/ the central idea/the message of the poem is to take risks in life in order to succeed. By avoiding risks one can keep off suffering and sorrows but one cannot live a life of fulfillment. Success comes to those who have the courage to take risks.
Q. 6 What benefits does the man get who takes risks in life? OR What is the advantage of taking a risk in life?
Ans. The man who takes risks learns new things, gains experience, changes his position, develops as an important person and lives life happily.
My Good Right Hand
Q. 1 Why did the poet‟s search for a friend prove to be fruitless?
Ans. The Poet‟s search for a friend proved to be fruitless because when he fell into difficulties and adversity he searched for a friend who could help him come out of his poverty. But none of them was willing to help him.
Q. 2 Why did the poet feel disappointed
Ans. The poet feel disappointed because during his poverty and adversity all his friends and relatives left him alone and did not come forward to help him. So that he becomes hopeless.
Q. 3 What was the result of the poet’s hard work?
Ans. The poet would get excellent result of his hard work. He overcome his sorrow and soon became prosperous. His hard work lifted him up from sorrow and pain.
Q. 4 What inspirations do we get from the poem?
Ans. This poem gives us a very positive point of view to deal with the adversity. It gives us the inspiration of trusting our hard work and God only during tough hours of life. It gives us the inspiration of making sweet uses of adversity with our hard work.
Q. 5 Give the central idea/theme/message of the poem. 'My Good Right Hand'.
Ans. The central idea/theme/message of the poem is that man should not look for help from others in adversity. Man should believe in God. He should believe in his hard work. These are the two things which can enable him in dealing with all sorts of problems.
Q. 6 Why does the poet not need the friends any more?
Ans. The poet does not need the friends any more because they were fair-weather friends. They did not help the poet in his poverty. Moreover, now the poet has found two trusted friends – God and his own two hands to labour.
Q. 7 What are two things the poet puts his trust in?
Ans. The poet puts his faith in two things (i) God and (ii) his good right hand. Good Right Hand means hard work.
Lotus
Q. 1 What was the cause of quarrel between the lily and the rose?
Ans. The main cause of quarrel between the lily and the rose was that they both would like to become the queen of flower Flora which was the highest honour of the life of a flower.
Q. 2 Describe the appearance of the lily.
Ans. Lily is a beautiful flower in white colour. It is fresh and attractive and reputed equal to Juno Mien, Wife of Jupiter, the god of rain. It also symbolizes purity and innocence.
Q. 3 Describe the appearance of the rose.
Ans. The rose is an attractive flower. It is in red colour and produces very delicious fragrance. It is fresh and remains alive for long time. It is so beautiful that the love first choose rose red. So it becomes a rival of lily.
Q. 4 How did Cupid hesitate in choosing the colour of the desired flower?
Ans. Cupid hesitated in choosing the colour of the desired flower because he wanted a flower which must have the colour and qualities of both rose and lily and his desired characteristics were not available in any single flower.
Q. 5 What is the theme/the central idea /message of the poem “The Lotus”?
Ans. The theme /the central idea/ message of the poem „The Lotus‟ revolves around a dispute among two flowers the rose and the lily. Both the flowers want to get the title of the best flower. But, Flora the goddess of flower chooses the lotus as a flower of superb beauty because the flower has the whiteness of the lily and redness of the rose.
An Elegy on the Death of Made Dog
Q. 1 What is an elegy?
Ans. An elegy is a poem which expresses sad feelings over the death of a friend or of an important person. It is a funeral song or a song of mourning over the loss of some dear and near one.
Q. 2 What kinds of dogs have been described in the poem?
Ans. The poet describes various kinds of dogs in this poem such as Mongrels (a mixture different breed) puppy, whelp (a puppy) hound (hunting dog) and cur (aggressive dog).
Q. 3 What wonderful event took place at the end of the poem?
Ans. The mad dog had bitten the man so the people expected that the man would die. But the man recovered and the dog died. It was really wonderful.
Q. 4 What are the qualities of the good man?
Ans. This poem reveals the reality of a so called good man. Who has a kind and gentle hearts. He leads a dual life. He pretends to be religious. He comforts both friends and enemies. He clothes the naked when he clothes himself. He made an enemy of a friendly dog. He proved more poisonous than the dog.
Q. 5 What did people think about the man and his behaviour ?
Ans. The people thought that the man in the poem was perfectly good, gentle and religious but he was religious during his prayer hours. Q. 10 Why did the dog turn against the man and bite him? Ans. The man and the dog were friends but a quarrel started between them on matters of hurt pride. To fulfil some selfish aim the dog bite the man
