These TS 9th Class English Important Questions Reading Comprehension Poems Question Number 6 to 10 will help the students to improve their time and approach.
TS 9th Class English Reading Comprehension Poems Question Number 6 to 10
Poems for Comprehension:
Questions : 6 – 10, Marks : 5
1. Read the following poem.
The Daffodils
I wandered lonely as cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle in the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay :
Ten thousand saw I at a glance
Tossing their head in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced? but they
Outdid the sparkling waves in glee;
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company;
I gazed – and gazed – but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought
For oft, when on my couch I lie .
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills
And dances with the daffodils.
– William Wordsworth
Glossary:
host = group
fluttering = flapping wings
twinkle = sparkle
margin = edge
inward = inside
bliss = extreme happiness
solitude = loneliness
tossing = moving
sprightly = lively
outdid = surpassed
glee = happiness
jocund = happy
vacant = empty, hollow
pensive = thoughtful
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write the options (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet. (2 × 1 = 2 Marks)
Question 6.
The poet saw daffodils
A) in the vale.
B) on a hill.
C) on lake-side.
D) among the stars.
Answer:
C) on lake-side.
Question 7.
The ‘bliss of solitude’ refers to
A) daffodils.
B) the inward eye.
C) the waves.
D) the stars.
Answer:
B) the inward eye.
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences each. (3 × 1 = 3 Marks)
Question 8.
What is the similarity between the cloud and the poet ?
Answer:
The similarity between the cloud and the poet is that both of them move on aimlessly without any company.
Question 9.
Why was the poet happy ?
Answer:
The poet was happy because there was happiness all around.
Question 10.
How were the waves seemed to be ?
Answer:
The waves seemed to be less happy than the daffodils.
2. Read the following poem.
Holy Thursday
Is this a holy thing to see
In a rich and fruitful land,
Babes reduc’d to misery,
Fed with cold and usurous hand?
is that trembling cry a song?
Can it be a song of joy?
And so many children poor?
It is a land of poverty.
And their sun does never shine,
And their fields are bleak and bare,
And their ways are fill’d with thorns
It is eternal winter there.
For where’er the sun does shine,
And where’er the rain does fall,
Babe can never hunger there,
Nor poverty the mind appall.
– William Blake
Glossary :
cold = unfeeling
bleak = dark
eternal = permanent
usurous = miserly
bare = empty
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write the options (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet. (2 × 1 = 2 Marks)
Question 6.
The sign of rich country is
A) its rich lands.
B) the rich people.
C) the fruitful land.
D) the happy children.
Answer:
D) the happy children.
Question 7.
‘Fruitful land’ means
A) the land full pf fruit.
B) fertile land.
C) the land where fruits grow.
D) the fruit gardens.
Answer:
B) fertile land.
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences each. (3 × 1 = 3 Marks)
Question 8.
What does the poet speak about in the poem ?
Answer:
The poet speaks about poor babies in the poem.
Question 9.
Who is the poet angry with ?
Answer:
The poet is angry with miserly people.
Question 10.
What does the poet comment on ?
Answer:
The poet comments on the song of the children.
3. Read the following poem.
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd winds slowly o’er the lea,
The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight,
And all the air a solemn stillness holds,
Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,
And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds;
Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower
The moping owl does to the moon complain
Of such, as wand’ ring the secret bower,
Molest her’ancient solitary reign.
– Thomas Gray
Glossary :
curfew = darkness
tolls = rings
knell = bell
parting = going
lowing herd = groups of cattle making a sound
winds = moves on a zig-zag path
lea = meadow
plods = walks slowly with heavy steps
weary = tired
fades = disappears
glimmering = shining
landscape = natural scene
solemn = serious
stillness = quietness
holds = carries
save = except
droning = dull
drowsy = sleepy
tinkling = the sounds of bell
lull = bring to sleep
distant = far off
folds = groups
ivy-mantled = covered by the creeper
moping = listless
bower = nest
molest = disturb
solitary = lonely
reign = kingdom
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices. Choose the
correct answer and write the options (A), (B), (C) or (D) In your answer booklet. (2 × 1 = 2 Marks)
Question 6.
The evening bell rings to tell that
A) It is time for prayer.
B) people should go to church.
C) the day has come to an end.
D) the lamps should be lighted.
Answer:
C) the day has come to an end.
Question 7.
The word ‘fades’ means
A) becomes bright.
B) becomes indistinct.
C) goes dark.
D) becomes distinct.
Answer:
B) becomes indistinct.
Answer the following questions In one or two sentences each.
Question 8.
Which disturbs the silence of the air?
Answer:
The one which disturbs the silence of the air is the tinkling bells.
Question 9.
What does the owl complain of?
Answer:
The owl complains of those who disturb his solitude.
Question 10.
What has been the beetle’s droning associated with?
Answer:
The beetle’s droning has been associated with the drowsy tinklings.
4. Read the following poem.
On killing a Tree
It takes much time to kill a tree,
Not a simple jab of the knife
Will do It. It has grown
Slowly consuming the earth,
Rising out of It, feeding
Upon its crust, absorbing
Years of sunlight, air, water,
And out of Its leprous hide
Sprouting leaves.
So hack and chop
But this alone won’t do It.
Not so much pain will do it.
The bleeding bark will heal
And from close to the ground
Will rise curled green twigs,
Miniature boughs
Which if unchecked will expand again
To former size.
No,
The root is to be pulled out
Out of the anchoring earth;
It Is to be roped, tied,
And pulled out – snapped out
Or pulled out entirely,
Out from the earth-cave,
And the strength of the tree exposed,
The source, white and wet,
The most sensitive, hidden
For years inside the earth.
Then the matter
Of scorching and choking
In sun and air,
Browning, hardening,
Twisting, withering,
And then it is done.
– Gieve Patel
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write the options (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet. (2 × 1 = 2 Marks)
Question 6.
To kill a tree means
A) to cut its branches.
B) to cut its limbs.
C) to uproot it.
D) to cut its trunk.
Answer:
C) to uproot it.
Question 7.
Mark the wrong option : The earth ………
A) feeds the tree.
B) supports the tree.
C) helps the tree.
D) absorbs the tree.
Answer:
D) absorbs the tree.
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences each. (3 × 1 = 3 Marks)
Question 8.
When will the strength of a tree be exposed ?
Answer:
Strength of the tree will be exposed when its trunk is cut.
Question 9.
‘And then it is done.’ What does ‘it’ refer to ?
Answer:
‘It’ stands for the act of uprooting the tree.
Question 10.
How does a tree grow ?
Answer:
A tree grows slowly.
5. Read the following poem.
I had a Dove
I had a dove and the sweet dove died
And I thought it died of grieving :
Q, what could it grieve for ? Its feet were tied
With a silken thread of my own hand’s weaving ;
Sweet little red feet! why should you die –
Why should you leave me, sweet bird ! why ?
You liv’d alone on the forest-tree,
Why, pretty thing! would you not live with me ?
I kissed you oft and gave you white peas ;
Why not live sweetly, as in the green trees ?
– John Keats
Glossary :
grieving = feeling sorrow
preety = beautiful
weaving = spinning
oft = often
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write the options (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet. (2 × 1 = 2 Marks)
Question 6.
The poet so loved the dove that he fed it
A) to its heart’s content.
B) whenever it demanded.
C) with peas.
D) both A and B
Answer:
Question 7.
The bird felt miserable when
A) it did not get food.
B) its feet were tied.
C) it flew away.
D) both A and B
Answer:
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences each. (3 × 1 = 3 Marks)
Question 8.
What did the bird lose though the comforts were provided to it ?
Answer:
The comforts provided to the bird could not make up for the loss of freedom.
Question 9.
Where does the bird prefer to live ?
Answer:
The bird prefers to live in the green trees.
Question 10.
Give the antonym of the word ‘pretty’.
Answer:
‘ugly’
6. Read the following poem.
Piping Down the Valleys Wild
Piping down the valleys wild,
Piping songs of pleasant glee !
On a cloud I saw a child,
And he laughing said to me :
‘Pipe a song about a Lamb !”
So I piped with merry cheer.
‘Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe;
Sing the songs of happy cheer,’
So I sang the same again,
While he wept with joy to hear.
‘Piper, sit thee down, and write
In a book that all may read,’
So he vanïsh’d from my sight,
And I pluck’d a hollow-reed,
And I made-a rural pen,
And I stain’d the water clear,
And I wrote my happy songs
Every child may joy to hear.
Glossary:
piping = playing on the pipe
glee = happiness
drop = throw
cheer = cheerfulness
vanish’d = disappeared
pluck’d = picked
reed = pen made of wood
rural = of the village
stain’d = inked
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write the options (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet. (2 × 1 = 2 Marks)
Question 6.
The poet was ……………
A) greatly confused.
B) touched and started writing.
C) in a fix.
D) unable to write songs.
Answer:
B) touched and started writing.
Question 7.
The word ‘vanished’ means
A) disappeared.
B) out of mind.
C) imagination.
D) cleaned off.
Answer:
A) disappeared.
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences. (3 × 1 = 3 Marks)
Question 8.
Why was the poet busy ?
Answer:
The poet was busy in piping songs in the wild valley.
Question 9.
What did the child demand ?
Answer:
The child demanded to write his songs in a book.
Question 10.
Who do you think the happy songs are written for ?
Answer:
The happy songs are written for every child.
7. Read the following poem.
The Nightingale and the Glow-worm
A nightingale, that all day long
Had cheered the village with his song,
Began to feel as well he might,
The keen demands of appetite;
When, looking eagerly around,
He spied for off, upon the ground,
A something shining in the dark,
And knew the glow-worm by his spark;
So, stooping down from hawthorn top,
He thought to put him in his crop.
The worm, aware of his intent,
Harangued him thus, right eloquent –
“Did you admire my lamp,” quoth he,
“As much as I your minstrelsy
You would abhor to do me wrong,
As much as 1 to spoil your song ;
For ’twas the self-same power divine,
Taught you to sing, and me to shine;
That you with music,.I with light,
Might beautify and cheer the night.”
The songster heard his short oration,
And warbling out his approbation
Released him, as my story tells,
And found a supper somewhere else.
– William Cowper
Glossary :
nightingale = a song bird
keen = sharp
demands of appetite = hunger
eagerly = anxiously
spied = saw
far off = at a distance
spark = flicker of light
stooping = bending
hawthorn = a bush
crop = a pouch in the esophagus
intent = of many birds in which food is held desire
harangued = advised
right = quite
eloquent = like an orator
quoth = spoke
minstrelsy = singing
abhor = dislike
spoil = ruin
divine = godly
cheer = make happy
songster = singer
oration = speech
warbling = singing
approbation = approval
released = freed
Now answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write the options (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet. (2 × 1 = 2 Marks)
Question 6.
The act ‘released him’means that the nightingale
A) approved of his own point of view
B) approved of the glow-worm’s point of view
C) did not like the insect’s taste
D) felt proud for releasing the glow-worm
Answer:
B) approved of the glow-worm’s point of view
Question 7.
The phrase ‘warbled out his approbation’ means
A) singing more vigorously
B) spilled out words
C) gave judgement
D) expressed, his appreciation
Answer:
D) expressed, his appreciation
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences. (3 × 1 = 3 Marks)
Question 8.
What was the intent of the nightingale ?
Answer:
The intent of the nightingale was to eat the glow-worm.
Question 9.
How did the night become beautiful ?
Answer:
The night became beautiful due to the song of the nightingale and due to the light of the glow-worm.
Question 10.
How can you compare nightingale and glow-worm ?
Answer:
Both the nightingale and the glow-worm had an important role to play in the world;
8. Read the following poem.
Indian Weavers
Weavers, weaving at break of day,
Why do you weave a garment so gay ?
Blue as the wing of a halcyon wild,
We weave the robes of a newborn child.
Weavers, weaving at fall of night,
Why do you weave a garment so bright ?
Like the plumes of a peacock purple and green
We weave the marriage-veils of a queen.
Weavers, weaving solemn and still,
What do you weave in the moonlight chill ?
White as a feather and white as a cloud,
We weave a dead man’s funeral shroud.
Glossory:
weavers = those who weave cloth
garmegt = piece of dress
gay = cheerful looking
halcyon = a fabled bird
plumes = wings
marriage veils = wedding dress
solemn = serious
chill = cold
funeral shroud = the cloth to cover a dead body
Now, answer the following questions. Each question has four choices.
Choose the correct answer and write the options (A), (B), (C) or (D) in your answer booklet. (2 × 1 = 2 Marks)
Question 6.
‘Blue’ is common to
A) sky, halcyon.
B) halcyon, new-born baby,
c) baby, its dress.
D) both A and B
Answer:
A) sky, halcyon.
Question 7.
The phrase ‘white as a cloud’ is a
A) metaphor
B) simile
C) paradox
D) parody
Answer:
B) simile
Answer the following questions in one or two sentences. (3 × 1 = 3 Marks)
Question 8.
What is the colour of the baby’s dress ?
Answer:
The colour of the baby’s dress is blue.
Question 9.
What do weavers weave ?
Answer:
Weavers weave different colours to match the occasion and to match the person.
Question 10.
How are the thoughts of the ‘break of day’ ?
Answer:
The ‘break of day’ has parallel thoughts to the new-born babies and cheerful-looking colours.