Holiday homework!!!

Children, I'm sure you will enjoy reading book. So, during the winter break, let's read any book written by .........and write its review in the given format.

Happy holidays Children!!!

Modals

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Leisure

Reading comprehension

A. Answer these questions
1. “Full of care” denotes all the worries in life.
2. According to the poet, because we are rushed , we miss out on times of leisure and we miss out on the beauty of nature around us.
3. According to the poet, the sheep and cows, who have the time to stare, are better at enjoying life than us.
4. The streams are full of stars as the ripples in the stream reflect the light of the big star, the sun, thus
giving the impression of a stream full of stars.

B. Think and Answer

1. In today’s world, everyone is busy running after money. Those who have money are busy trying to
make more and those who do not are busy trying to make enough to make ends meet. The worries
and tensions that accompany this rat race are the cares that do not let us stand and stare.
2. The poet wants us to have some free time, because if we lead a life full of cares, it will be a poor life, not enriched.
3. The streams are presented as full of stars like the sky on a starry night. The significance of the words “broad daylight” signifies that man chooses not to see the beauty around him as he is blinded by his cares.
4. It is important to have leisure in life, because without leisure we become mere machines oblivious of the beauty that surrounds us. Thus our lives take on a very dull hue and become meaningless and poor in quality.
5. While the first and last stanzas emphasise that life without leisure is not fulfilling, all the other stanzasbegin with the words “No time to” and list out all the good things in life that man has no time for – no time to stand beneath trees and look out into the open; no time to see the squirrels preparing for hibernation in the woods; no time to enjoy the tranquility of the glimmering streams; no time to watch beauty dancing all around; no time to notice the small pleasures of life .

C. Answer these questions with reference to context.

1. a. Here beauty is likened to a woman, a graceful dancer, nimble on her feet. Yet man does not find
the time to even turn and take a glimpse. The word “Beauty” is spelt with a capital B because it is
likened to a person.
b. The beauty of nature is likened to a graceful dancer’s and the beautiful steps her nimble feet
perform.
2. a. “Her” in these lines is nature.
b. This is a continuation of the previous couplet where even the smile of the beauty that starts from
the eyes and swiftly reaches the mouth go unnoticed. This metamorphically refers to the various
small but beautiful aspects of nature that go unnoticed because of the busy way of our modern life.
3. a. The poet is trying to tell us that if we have no time to stand and stare, our life is incomplete and not enriched. By the use of the word “poor”, the poet is trying to convey that our lives will be devoid of beauty and full of cares.
b. Yes the last stanza can be read as a reply to the question posed in the first stanza. In the first stanza
we are asked what life we lead if it is a life of cares. In the last stanza we get the reply that it is a
poor life, if full of cares.

Poem Appreciation

C. The similes used in this poem are: streams full of stars like skies at night; no time to turn at Beauty’s glance
and watch her feet, how they can dance; her mouth can enrich that smile her eyes began
Nature is personified as a graceful dancer called Beauty.
D. The entire poem makes use of imagery. As we read each stanza