MP Board Class 12th English Important Extracts from the Poems

MP Board Class 12th English Important Extracts from the Poems

निम्नलिखित पंक्तियों को ध्यानपूर्वक पढ़िए एवं उन पर आधारित प्रश्नों के उत्तर दीजिए:

1. (Poem 1)

Teach me to listen, Lord
To those far from me The
The plea of the forgotten
The cry of the anguished. [2009, 10, 12, 16, 17]

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Questions:
(i) Find out a word from the lines given a word having a similar meaning to ‘severe pain.’ [2009, 10]
(ii) The poet wants us to listen to those [2009, 10]
(iii) What does the poet request? [2009, 10]
(iv) A word similar in meaning to the word ‘hear’ : [2012, 16, 17]
(a) pear (b) listen (c) peep.
(v) The opposite word ‘near’ is : [2012, 16, 17]
(a) far (b) clear (c) further (d) fear.
(vi) Give the name of the poem from which these lines have been taken. [2012, 16, 17]
Answer:
(i) anguish.
(ii) Who are far from him and who are hopeless, forgotten and anguished.
(iii) The poet requests God to teach him to listen to the hopeless and the anguished.
(iv) (b) listen.
(v) (a) far.
(vi) Teach Me to Listen, Lord.

2. (Poem 4)

Ah, you are so great, and I am so small,
I tremble to think of you, World, at all;
And yet, when I said my prayers today,
A whisper inside me seemed to say,
“You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot.
You can love and think, and the Earth cannot !” [2009]

Questions:
(i) A word opposite in meaning to ‘inside’:
(a) great (b) tremble (c) outside (d) None of these.

(ii) A word meaning ‘shake’ in the, above lines is :
(a) whisper, (b) tremble (c) Vet (d) great.

(iii) Write the name of the poet who wrote this poem.
Answer:
(i) (c) outside.
(ii) (b) tremble.
(iii) William Brighty Rands.

3. [Poem 16]

Some people say that you’re a dear
Yet dear is far from cheap,
A jumper is a thing you wear,
Yet a jumper has to leap,
It’s very clear, it’s very queer,
And pray who is to blame
For different meanings to some words
Pronounced and spelt the same? [2018]

Questions:
(i) What is the opposite of the word dear?
(a) costly (b) cheap (c) precious (d) beloved.

(ii) The word ‘jumper’ has two meanings. It’s one meaning is ‘one who jumps’. What is its second meaning?
(a) a woman’s loose outer garment (b) strange (c) different (d) blame.

(iii) Name the poem from which this extract has been taken?
Answer:
(i) (b) cheap.
(ii) (a) a woman’s loose outer garment
(iii) The English Language.

4. [Poem 10]

After unnumbered steps of a hill-stair
I saw upon earth’s head brilliant with sun
The immobile Goddess in her house of stone
In the loneliness of meditating air. [2013]

Questions:
(i) A word similar in meaning to ‘unnumbered’ is :
(a) numberless (b) few (c) some (d) none of these.
(ii) The opposite of brilliant’ is :
(a) bright (b)dull (c) intelligent (d) sharp.
(iii) Give the name of the poem and poet.
Answer:
(i) (a) numberless.
(ii) (b) dull.
(iii) Name of the poem – The Hill-Top Temple
Name of the poet – Sri Aurobindo.

5. [Poem 7]

Can I admire the statue great,
When living men starve at its feet.
Can I admire the parks green tree,
A roof for homeless misery? [2016]

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Questions:
(i) Name the poet :
(a) Sri Aurobindo (b) W.H. Davies (c) William Rands (d) Anonymous.
(ii) Give the meaning of the word ‘Starve’ :
(a) die of hunger (b) labour hard (c) work comfortably (d) live happily.
(iii) Why does the poet say that he cannot admire the great statue?
Or
Give noun form of admiring.
Answer:
(i) (b) W. H. Davies.
(ii) (a) die of hunger.
(iii) The poet cannot admire the great statue because the living men are starving at its feet.
Or
admiration.

6. [Poem 16]

Some words have different meanings,
and yet they’re spelt the same.
A cricket is an insect,
to play it it’s a game.
On every hand, in every land,
it’s thoroughly agreed,
the English language to explain,
is very hard indeed. [2010, 14, 17]

Questions:
(i) The above lines have been taken from the poem [2010]
(ii) What is the name of the insect mentioned in the stanza? [2010]
(iii) Give the opposite of the word ‘easy’ from the above lines. [2010]
(iv) The opposite of the word ‘same’ in the stanza is : [2014,17]
(a) difficult (b) different (c)hard (d) every.

(v) The meaning of the word ‘hard’ is : [2014]
(a) difficult (b) easy (c) rough (d) plain.

(vi) What are the two meanings of cricket? [2014]
(vii) An insect and a game both can be called : [2017]
(a) chess (b) cricket (c) fly (d) similar.

(viii) What is thoroughly agreed everywhere? [2017]
Answer:
(i) The English Language.
(ii) pricket.
(iii) mrd.
(iv) (b) different.
(v) (a) difficult.
(vi) The two meanings of cricket’ are ‘insect’ and ‘a game’.
(vii) (b) cricket.
(viii) It is thoroughly agreed everywhere that English is a difficult language.

7. (Poem 1)

Teach me to listen, Lord
To myself
Help me to be less afraid
To trust the voice inside
In the deepest part of me.

Questions:
(i) A word having the same meaning as the word ‘belief is :
(a) afraid (b) deepest (c) trust (d) inside.
(ii) A word from the stanza which is the opposite of ‘more’ is :
(a) part (b) less (c) lord (d) voice.
(iii) What does the poet mean by “in the deepest part of me”?
Answer:
(i) (c) trust.
(ii) (b) less.
(iii) The poet means the deepest corner of his heart.

8. [Poem 10]

Our body is an epitome of some Vast
That masks its presence by our humanness.
In us, the secret Spirit can indite.
A page and summary of the Infinite.
A nodus of Eternity expressed
Live in an image and a sculptured face. [2015]

Questions:
(i) The poem is :
(a) In-country (b) Forest and River (c) The Hill-Top Temple (d) Wonderful world

(ii) What is the meaning of “infinite”.
(a) that means no end (b) that means for some time (c) that means begin (d) that means go on.

(iii) Write the correct transcription of the word ‘epitome’ to speak it accurately.
(iv) Write the adjective form of the word ‘eternity’.
Answer:
(i) (c) The Hill Top Temple
(ii) (a) that means no end.
(iii) i-pit’ ∂-m
(iv) eternal.

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9. (Poem 1)

To those nearest me
My family, my friends, my co-workers
Help me to be aware that
No matter what words I hear
The message is
‘Accept the person I am, listen to me.’ [2011, 15]

Questions:
(i) A word similar in meaning to the word ‘attentive’ :
(a) preventive (b) active (c) aware (d) co-worker.

(ii) The word opposite in meaning of ‘aware’ :
(a) unaware (b) inaware (c) unawares (d) disaware.

(iii) The poet wants us to listen to those [nearest/farthest]
(iv) Write the name of the poem from which these lines have been taken.
Answer:
(i) (c) aware
(ii) (a) unaware
(iii) nearest
(iv) Teach Me to Listen, Lord.

10. (Poem 13)

But what am I?
Only a captive,
Chained to the earth.
In silence I grow old
In silence I wither and die. [2013]

Questions:
(i) Who is T in these lines?
(a) River (b) Forest (c) Sky

(ii) From These lines opposite of the word ‘free’.
(a) captive (b) old (c) silent (d) with.

(iii) Give the name of the poet.
Answer:
(i) (b) Forest.
(ii) (a) captive.
(iii) Jalaluddin Rumi.

11. (Poem 13)

On every hand, in every land
it’s thoroughly agreed
the English language to explain
is very hard indeed. [2012]

Questions:
(i) The same meaning of ‘completely’ is
(a) purely (b) wrongly (c) thoroughly (d) explain.

(ii) The opposite word of ‘easy’ is
(a) cused (b) hard (c) soft (d) comfort.

(iii) Give the name of the poem from which these lines have been taken.
Answer:
(i) (c) thoroughly.
(ii) (b) hard.
(iii) The English Language.

12. (Poem 4)

The wonderful air is over me,
And the wonderful wind is shaking the tree,
It walks on the water, and whirls the mills,
And talks to itself on the tops of the hills. [2014,18]

MP Board Solutions

Questions:
(i) The opposite of the word ‘bottom’ in the stanza is : [2014, 18]
(a) wonderful (b) shake (c)top (d) whirl.

(ii) The word that rhymes with ‘tree’ is : [2014,18]
(a) hill (b)me (c)top (d)mill.

(iii) What is shaking the tree? [2014]
(iv) Give the name of the poem from which this extract has been taken. [2018]
Answer:
(i) (c) top.
(ii) (b)me.
(iii) Wonderful wind is shaking the tree.
(iv) The poem is wonderful World’.

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