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REMEMBER
Poem Poet
1. Dust of Snow Robert Frost
2. Fire And Ice Robert Frost
3. A Tiger in the Zoo Leslie Norris
4. How To Tell Wild Animals Carolyn Wells
5. The Ball Poem John Berryman
6. Amanda Robin Klein
7. Animals Walt Whitman
8. The Trees Adrienne Rich
9. Fog Carl Sandburg
10. The Tale of Custard the Dragon Ogden Nash
11. For Anne Gregory William Butler Yeats
POETRY Section 4 Marks
1. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
What is the boy now, who has lost his ball, What, what is he to do? I saw it go Merrily bouncing, down the street and then Merrily over there it is in the water!
(a) Name the poem from where this extract has been taken.
(b) Who has written these lines ?
(c) What has the boy lost?
(d) Where did the ball go?
Answers:
(a) "The Ball Poem"
(b) John Berryman
(c) The boy has lost his ball.
(d) Bouncing down the street, the ball had fallen into the water.
2.Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
He stalks in his vivid stripes
The few steps of his cage,
On pads of velvet quiet,
In his quiet rage.
Questions:
(a) Name the poem from where this extract has been taken.
(b) Who has written these lives?
(c) Who is 'he' in the first line?
(d) Where is he walking?
(e) How is his pad?
Answers:
(a) 'A Tiger in the Zoo'.
(b) Leslie Norris
(c) The tiger in the zoo.
(d) He is walking in a small cage.
(e) His pad is soll and velvety.
3. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
I think I could turn and live with animals,
They are so placid and self contained,
I stand and look at them long and long,
Questions:
(a) Name the poem from where these lines have been taken.
(b) Who has written these lines?
(c) What is the poet turning from ?
(d) Why does the poet want to turn and live with animals.
Answers:
(a) 'Animals'
(b) Walt Whitman
(c) The poet wants to turn away from human beings.
(d) The poet wants to turn and live with animals because they are happy and satisfied with what they have.
4.Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
I am an orphan, roaming the street.
I pattern soft dust with my hushed, bare feet.
The silence is golden, the freedom is sweet.
Questions:
(a) Name the poem from where extract has been taken?
(b) Who has written this Poem?
(c) Who was roaming the street?
(d) How does she define she is an orphan? How does she make designs?
Answers:
(a) 'Amanda'.
(b) Robin Klein
(c) Amanda was roaming the street.
(d) As an orphan, she roams around the streets. She walks and leaves patterns of her bare feet on the soft dust.
5.Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
He should be lurking in shadow, Sliding through long grass,
Near the water hole,
Where plump deer pass.
Questions:
(a) Name the poem from where this extract has been taken.
(b) Who has written these lines?
(c) Who is 'He' here?
(d) Who would pass through the water hole?
Answers:
(a) "A Tiger in the Zoo"
(b) Leslie Norris
(c) 'He' is the tiger in these lines.
(d) Plump deer passes near the water hole.
6.Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
He should be lurking in shadow,
Sliding through long grass,
Near the water hole,
Where plump deer pass.
Questions:
(a) Name the poem from where this extract has been taken.
(b) Who has written these lines?
(c) Who is 'He' here?
(d) Who would pass through the water hole?
Answers:
(a) "A Tiger in the Zoo"
(b) Leslie Norris
(c) 'He' is the tiger in these lines.
(d) Plump dee: passes near the water hole.
7. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
"Belinda lived in a little white house, With a little black kitten and a little grey mouse, And a little yellow dog and a little red Wagon,
And a realio, trulio, little pet dragon."
Questions:
(a) Name the poem from where this extract has been taken.
(b) Name the poet of this poem.
(c) Where did Belinda live?
(d) Why did custard cry for a nice safe cage?
Answers:
(a) 'The tale of Custard the Dragon'.
(b) Ogden Nash
(c) Belinda lived in a little white house.
(d) Custard cried for a nice safe cage as he only wanted to take rest.
8.Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
The true Chameleon is small,
A lizard sort of thing;
He hasn't any ears at all,
And not a single wing.
If there is nothing on the tree,
'Tis the chameleon you see.
(a) Name the poem from where these lines have been taken?
(b) Who has written these lines ?
(c) How does a chameleon look like?
(d) What two things does a chameleon not have?
or, Where is the chameleon generally found?
Ans
(a) 'How to tell Wild Animals'.
(b) Carolyn Wells
(c) A chameleon looks like a lizard.
(d) A chameleon does not have ears and even a single wing.
or, It is generally found on trees.
9.Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :
Custard the dragon had big sharp teeth,
And spikes on top of him and scales underneath,
Mouth like a fireplace, chimney for a nose, And realio, trulio daggers on his toes.
(a) Name the poem from where extract has been taken.
(b) Who has written these lines ?
c) What type of teeth did the dragon have?
( (d) How was his mouth? What did he have on his toes?
Ans.
(a) "The Tale of Custard the Dragon"
(b) Ogden Nash
(c) The dragon had big, sharp teeth.
(d) His mouth was like a fire place. He had daggers on his toes
10.Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :
The fog comes on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city on silent haunches
and then moves on.
(a) Name the poem from where these lines have been taken?
(b) Who has written these lines ?
(c) Who is 'it' in the third line here?
(d) Where does the fog look and how?
Ans. (a) Fog
(b) Carl Sandbury
(c) 'It' here is the little cat as well as the fog.
(d) The fog looks like that little cat over whom it falls. The cat is sitting on its haunches.
11. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
The smell of leaves and lichen
Still reaches like a voice into the rooms.
My head is full of whispers
Which tomorrow will be silent
(a) Name the poem from which this extract has been taken.
(b) Who has written these lines?
(c) What does the poet experience?
(d) How does she think for her head?
Ans.
(a) The Trees'.
(b) Adrienne Rich
(c) The poet experience the smell of leaves and lichen reaching her room like a voice.
(d) Her head is full of whispers made by leaves of the tree.
12. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
Suddenly, suddenly they heard a nasty sound,
And mustard growled, and they all looked around.
Meowch I cried ink, and ooh I cried Belinda. For there was a pirate, climbing in the wind.
(a) Name the poem from where this extract has been taken. I
(b) Who has written these lines?
(c) When did they look around?
(d) Why did they produce different sounds?
Ans.
a) The Tale of Custard the Dragon'.
(b) Ogden Nash
(c) They looked around when they heard heard a nasty sound.
(d) They produced different sounds because they saw a pirate climbing in their window.
13. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
Pistol in his left hand, pistol in his right, And he held in his teeth a cutlass bright, His beard was black, one leg was wood; It was clear that the pirate meant no good.
(a) Name the poem and poet of these lines.
(b) How did the pirate appear before them?
(c) How did he look?
(d) What did he suggest?
Ans. (a) Poem: The Tale of Custard the Dragon', Poet: Ogden Nash
(b) The pirate appeared before them with pistols in hands and a bright sword in his mouth.
(c) He looked fearful.
(d) He suggested evil.
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