MP Board Class 10th Special English Important Extracts

Students get through the MP Board Class 10th English Important Questions Special English Extracts which are most likely to be asked in the exam.

MP Board Class 10th Special English Important Extracts

Read the following extracts carefully and answer the given questions:

I. May that by which wise men, skilful in rituals (MP 2012)
and steady in assemblies, perform their tasks
that peerless spirit that lies in all creatures,
may that my mind resolve on what is good.
May that which is deep knowledge, intellect, memory (MP 2017)
that which is the deathless flame in living beings,
without which nothing whatever is done,
mays; that my mind resolve on what is good.

Questions and Answer

Question 1.
Identify the poem and its source.
Answer:
The title of the poem is Good will. It is a hymn. It is an extract from Yajurveda.

Question 2.
What is the central idea of this poem?
Answer:
In this hymn the divine essence, the peerless spirit and the deathless flame are imoked to put the will in the mind to do only what is good.

Question 3.
Explain “that peerless what is good.”
Answer:
The peerless spirit is the spirit of God. Every living being possesses the spirit which is a part of divine spirit. It is ffaged that the godly spirit may lead us to do good works in our life.

Question 4.
What does ‘deathless flame’ refer to?
Answer:
It refers to the soul that lives in all creatures. The soul never dies. So it is perpetual. The soul is a part of divine.

Question 5.
Name the Veda from which these lines have been taken: (MP 2017)
(a) Rigveda
(b) Yajurveda
(c)Atharvaveda
(d) Samveda
Answer:
(b) Yajurveda.

Question 6.
What is that without which nothing is ever done: (MP 2017)
(a) Mind
(b) Spirit
(c) Knowledge
Answer:
(b) Spirit

Question 7.
Why does poet call spirit as deathless flame? (MP 2017)
Answer:
Spirit is called as deathless flame as it is free from death or d$ath can never touch spirit.

MP Board Class 10th Special English Important Extracts

II. I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, (MP 2012)
and a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made.
Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee,
and live alone in the bee loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings,
there midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
and evening full of the linnet’s wings.

Questions and Answers

Question 1.
Identify the poem and the poet
Answer:
This extract is from the poem ‘Lake Isle of Innisfree’. This poem is written by the poet W. B. Yeats.

Question 2.
What does the poet means by ‘I will a rise’?
Answer:
The poet means that he will rise from the deep slumber of worldly life. That life is full of vices.

Question 3.
Why does the poet want to go to Innisfree?
Answer:
The poet wants to go to Innisfree to got rid of the disgusting life of London. At Innisfree he will enjoy the beauty of nature and will relax himself.

Question 4.
What does the poet want to do after going to the Lake Isle of Innisfree?
Answer:
The poet wants to live there forever.

III. While I am lying on the grass (MP 2016)
They two fold shout I hear;
from hill to hill it seems to pass.
At once for off and near.

Questions and Answers

Question 1.
Who is lying on the grass:
(i) Cuckoo
(ii) Parrot
(iii) Poet
(iv) Rabbit
Answer:
Poet

Question 2.
Name the poet of this poem:
(i) William Cowper
(ii) Robert Frost
(iii) Rabindranath Tagore
(iv) William Wordsworth.
Answer:
William Wordsworth.

Question 3.
What does the poet hear? What is he doing when he hears that?
Answer:
The poet hears the sound of the cuckoo. He is lying on the grass when he hears die sounds.

Question 4.
What do exit and entrance refer to?
Answer:
Exit and entrance refer to death and birth.

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IV. An old man, going alone highway, (MP 2015)
came, at the evening, cold and gray,
to a chasm, vast, and deep, and wide,
through which was flowing a sullen tide,
the old man crossed in the twilight dim;
the sullen stream had no fears for him.
But he turned, when safe on the other side,
and builts bridge to span the tide.
“Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim, near,
you are wasting strength with building here;
your journey will end with the ending day.

Questions and Answers

Question 1.
Identify the poem and the poet.
Answer:
This extract is taken from the poem ‘The Bridge Builder’ composed by ‘Will alien dromgoole’.

Question 2.
Where is the old man is going?
Answer:
The old man is going on a highway in the evening.

Question 3.
What does he see on his way and which thought comes to his mind?
Answer:
On his way he happens to see a charm in the bridge. He thinks that the charm may prove fataly dangerous for those who might come that way later.

Question 4.
What does the poetess want to convey?
Answer:
The poetess wants to convey through her poem that the world of today is replete with selfish people who have no concern for others. We need more and more people like this old man of the poem.

V. In one salutation to thee, my God, let (MP 2013)
all my senses spread out and touch this
world at they feet like a rain cloud of July hung low.
With its burden of unshed showers let all
my mind bend down at they door in one
salutation to thee.
Let all my songs gather togather their
diverse strains into a single current and
flow to a sea of silence in one salutation to thee.
Like a flock of homestick cranes flying
night and day back to their mountain
nests let all my life take its voyage to its
eternal home in one salutation to thee.

Questions and Answers

Question 1.
Identify the poem and the poet.
Answer:
This extract is taken from the poem Gitanjali composed by Shri Rabindranath Tagore.

Question 2.
What does the poet pray to God?
Answer:
The poet prays to God to let all his senses spread out and touch this world at his feet. He prays to God to make his head bow down at his threshold.

Question 3.
What does the poet want his songs to be?
Answer:
The poet wants his songs to flow to a sea of silence in one salutation to God.

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VI. Between nose and eyes a strange contest arose, (Imp.)
The spectacles set them unhappily wrong,
The point in dispute was, as all the world knows
To which the said spectacles ought to belong.

Questions and Answers

Question 1.
The dispute was between:
(i) Ears and eyes
(ii) Eyes and tongue
(iii) Nose and ears
(iv) Nose and eyes
Answer:
Nose and eyes.

Question 2.
The object due to which the dispute arose was:
(i) Hand
(ii) Spectacles
(iii) Shirt
Answer:
(ii) Spectacles

Question 3.
What was the point of dispute?
Answer:
It was over the Spectacles.

VII. If you can dream and not make dreams your master (MP 2016)
If you can think and not make thoughts your aim
If you can meet with triumph and disasters
And treat those two imposters just the same.

Questions and Answers

Question 1.
Whom is the poet addressing in the above lines:
(i) People
(ii) Himself
(iii) His neighbor
Answer:
(i) People.

Question 2.
Name of the poem is:
(i) If
(ii) Gitanjali
(iii) Goodwill.
Answer:
(i) If.

Question 3.
How does the poet want you to treat triumph and disaster?
Answer:
The poet want us to treat triumph and disaster on equal grounds.

VIII. His acts being seven ages. At first the infant
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
And then the whining school boy, with his satchel,
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.

Questions and Answers

Question 1.
What is the first stage of a man’s life according to the poet:
(i) Soldier
(ii) Infant
(iii) Lover
(iv) Justice
Answer:
(ii) Infant.

Question 2.
Whose acts have seven ages:
(i) Snail
(ii) School
(iii) Lover
(iv) Man
Answer:
(iv) Man

Question 3.
To whom does poet compare the school boy to? Why?
Answer:
The poet compares the school boy to a snail because the child goes to school unwillingly and walks very slowly just like a snail.

MP Board Class 10th Special English Important Extracts

IX. May that which guides men like a good charioteer, (MP 2009, 13, 15, 18)
Who controls fleet footed houses with the reins,
that which abides in the heart, nost swift and active,
May that my mind resolve on what is good.

Questions and Answers

Question 1.
From which poem these lines have been taken:
(i) To the Cuckoo
(ii) Goodwill
(iii) If
(iv) The Bridge Builder
Answer:
(ii) Goodwill.

Question 2.
The word used for ‘a long narrow band usually of leather by which a horse is controlled’, in the extract is:
(i) Abide
(ii) Fleet
(iii) Reins
(iv) Charioteer
Answer:
(iii) Reins.

Question 3.
In what sense has the word ‘mind’ been used in the above lines?
Answer:
In the above lines, the word ‘mind’ is used as the fleet-footed horses which are controlled by the charioteer through the reins. As a fleet-footed horse, our minds are also filled with uncontrolled desires which need to be controlled only by us.

Question 4.
Fleet-footed horses mean:
(a) Slow running horses
(b) Fast running horses
Answer:
(b) Fast running horses.

Question 5.
How is mind compared with a charioteer? (MP 2015)
Answer:
The mind is compared with a charioteer because it controls the fleshly desires of the human beings just as the charioteer guides and control the horses.

X. O Blithe Newcomer! I have heard, (MP 2014, 18)
I hear thee and rejoice
O cuckoo ! shall I call thee Bird,
Or but a wandering voice?

Questions and Answers

Question 1.
The word ‘blithe’ means:
(i) Unhappy
(ii) Happy
(iii) Sweet
(iv) Natural
Answer:
(ii) Happy.

Question 2.
The poet of these lines is:
(i) W. B. Yeats
(ii) Robert Frost
(iii) Rabindra Nath Tagore
(iv) William Wordsworth.
Answer:
William Wordsworth.

Question 3.
How does the poet feel on hearing the Cuckoo’s song?
Answer:
On hearing the Cuckoo’s song, the poet experiences divine happiness: He got lost in the imaginative moments of the past when he used to experience the same divine happiness.

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XI. All the world’s a stage, (MP 2014)
And all the men and women merely players,
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his plays many parts
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.

Questions and Answers

Question 1.
The word used for ‘cry or utter with low broken voice’ in the extract is:
(i) Puking
(ii) Infant
(iii) Mewling
(iv) Weeping
Answer:
(iii) Mewling.

Question 2.
From which poem have these lines been taken:
(i) Goodwill
(ii) All the World is a Stage
(iii) To the Cuckoo
(iv) If
Answer:
(ii) All the World is a Stage.

Question 3.
How is the world a stage for all men and women? (MP 2015)
Answer:
Shakespeare compares the world to a stage. Both men and women take birth and die. It means they come on the stage of life and leave it like actors. Every man has to play different parts according to his span of life. The full life span is divided into seven ages.

XII. “ Old man”, said a fellow pilgrim, near,
You are wasting strength with building here;
Your journey will end with the ending day;
You never again must pass this way.

Questions and Answers

Question 1.
This poem is taken from (Give the name of poem):
Answer:
The Bridge builder.

Question 2.
Who addressed the old man:
(a) A woman
(b) A child
(c) A fellow
Answer:
(c) A fellow.

Question 3.
Who was building the bridge? Where? Why?
Answer:
The old man was building the bridge. He was building the bridge over the chasm on the highway. So that the young man, who was following him, might slip his feet and fall into the pit, for his safety he was building the bridge.

MP Board Class 10th Special English Important Extracts

XIII. If you can keep your head when all about you, (MP 2017)
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too.

Questions and Answers

Question 1.
To whom the poet addressing:
(a) His friend
(b) His wife
(c) His son
Answer:
(c) His wife.

Question 2.
What does he ask him to do when all men doubt him:
(a) To trust god
(b) To trust himself
(c) To trust poet
Answer:
(b) To trust himself.

Question 3.
How does the poet ask ‘you’ to face the blames.
Answer:
To face the blame one must try to have faith in oneself and also should find out the reason for the blame or suspicion.

XIV. I am a cloud quietly
I fly through the transparent sky.
And in the neauen, I bloom intes a lotus
I am a breeze stealthily
I am glide ouer bed of flowers
And gently, I shake dowm a dream
I am water bisurely
I flow into the sleeping rainbow
And go in pursuit of sound to temple
I am a fog slugly
I look forward to the raising of red sun
Over the dowering peak and return to it its gentle beauty.

Questions and Answers

Question 1.
Find out the words from the poem which have the following meanings: Secretly, Softly, Slowly, Timidly.
Answer:
Quietly, stealthily, gently, shyly.

Question 2.
Where does the water flow?
Answer:
Water flows intes the sleeping rainbow.

Question 3.
What do you understand by the red sun?
Answer:
Red sun refers to the sun in the morning time.

MP Board Class 10th Special English Important Extracts

XV. A youth, whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm, that has been naught to me,
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be.
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building the bridge for him.

Questions and answers

Question 1.
The poet of these fines is?
Answer:
This poem is written by “W. A. Dr. Mgoole”.

Question 2.
One word that can easily be made in the extract?
Answer:
Pitfall.

Question 3.
What did the old man tell his fellow pilgrim?
Answer:
The old man told his fellows pilgrim that a youth was following him. While travelling in the twilight he might slip his feet and fall into the pit. Therefore he is building the bridge for his safety.