KSEEB Karnataka SSLC Solution Class 10 English First Language – Sonnet 73
Board |
KSEEB (Karnataka Board) |
Exam |
SSLC (Class 10) |
Subject |
English |
Language |
1st Language |
Part |
2 |
Chapter |
6 |
Chapter Name |
Sonnet 73 |
Topic and Notes |
Solution of Question Answer/ Study Material |
Sonnet 73 Class 10 English SSLC Study Material / Notes / Question Answer
SONNET 73
THAT TIME OF YEAR
II.) COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS :
A.) Answer the following questions briefly:
1.) a) Which of the following four seasons is the poet talking about in the first stanza :
a) spring b) summer c) autumn d) winter?
b) Which words in the stanza support your answer?
Answer: When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
2.) The four seasons correspond to the four stages of man’s life – childhood, youth, old age and death. Where does the poet imagine himself to be?
Answer: The poet imagines himself to be in the autumn i.e. old age.
3.) a) What are compared to “bare ruin’d choirs?”
Answer: The bough on which the sweet birds sang.
b) What does the comparison mean?
Answer: The comparison means that the leaves are completely fallen and the birds have left the branches.
4.) Through the image of late autumn (in the first stanza), the poet convinces his friend that he is close to his death. What image does the poet use in the second stanza?
Answer: In me thou see’st the twilight of such day
5.) Like seasons or stages of man’s life, a day can also be divided into four stages:
a) morning b) noon c) evening d) night.
Where does the poet imagine himself to be in the second stanza?
Evening
6.) What is referred to as “Death’s second self?”
Answer: Sleep
7.) Identify the metaphors used by the poet to show the approach of death.
Answer: Twilight, sunset, black night
8.) Through the usage of twilight, the poet repeats that he is approaching the night of his life. What image does he use in the next stanza?
Answer: His death- bed
9.) As in the other images, the fire image of the third stanza also has four stages – a) fuel b) flame c) ember d) ash. Which stage does the poet identify himself with?
Answer: Ember
a) What lies on the ashes of its youth?
Answer: glowing of such fire, in other words, the poet’s energy and enthusiasm for life.
b) What does death-bed mean here?
Answer: Ember- his remaining wish to enjoy his life.
11.) “This” in the couplet refers
a) back to the three quatrains
b) forward to the next two lines
c) to both
12.) When does love become more strong?
Answer: Love becomes stronger when it is time to let it go.
13.) The poem is about the stage of life in which the poet imagines himself to be. What stage does he imagine himself to be in?
a.) Comparing life to the seasons he identifies his present stage with autumn season.
b.) Comparing life to the day he identifies his present stage with twilight time of day.
c.) Comparing life to the fire, he identifies his present stage with ember.
B.) Close Study
Read the following lines of the poem carefully. Discuss in pairs and then write the answers to the questions given below them.
1.) Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
a.) “Bare ruin’d choirs” refer to
i) a crumbling church ii) trees empty of birds iii) both
b.) Why has the “sound” disappeared?
Answer: The season has changed and with it the leaves fall. The season of autumn is set in and the weather is cold making the birds leave their branches.
c.) Why has the poet used the word “late”?
Answer: Here the word “late” refers to recently.
d.) Why are the branches of trees leafless?
Answer: Autumn has set in and has made the leaves of the trees yellow and fall down. Without the leaves, the trees look lifeless.
2.) This thou perceivest, which makes they love more strong,
To love that well which thou must leave ere long.
a) Who is “thou” here?
Answer: ‘Thou’ can be referred to the poet’s beloved or friend.
b) What makes love more strong?
Answer: The last few days of life makes love stronger. The very thought of never meeting someone again makes heart love that person even more.
c) Explain the literal meaning of the last line.
Answer: As the poet is at the last stage of the life, he wants himself to be loved more. He at the ‘twilight’ of his life and soon his end is going to come.
III.) PARAGRAPH WRITING :
Discuss in pairs / groups of four each the answers to the following questions. Note down the important points for each question and then develop the points into one-paragraph answers.
1.) How is the couplet a fitting conclusion to the three quatrains?
Answer: The in three quatrains, the poet’s tone is quite sad and depressing. In the first quatrains he compares himself with the season of autumn. The way autumn sets in and the leaves of the trees become yellow signifying the lifelines, in the same way the old age of a man bring the similar changes in his/her life. The poet experiences the same lifelessness in this stage. In the second quatrain, he compares his situation to the twilight of the day. The way the twilight brings the night, in the same way, the poet is approaching close the last days of his life. He is in the state of melancholy. In the third quatrain, the poet tells how his death is approaching fast like that of fireplace. The poet has lost his enthusiasm and youthfulness. In the conclusion, the poet adds a couplet which shifts his tone of depression to consolation. In the couplet, the poet is happy and says that when there is time of departure, one loves even more than before. He expresses himself to be loved more as his last day is coming soon. Here he is no longer depressed but actually he is happy and urges to love more and live life to the fullest.
2.) “Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang” has double images. Explain what the poet wants his friend to “behold”.
Answer: In the summer and spring seasons, the birds are full of energy and make their nests on the greens. They sit on the branches and sing sweetly. The songs sung by them are quite similar to those choirs in the church. But as the autumn season sets in, the trees start to shred their leaves making them leafless and lifeless. The birds stops to sit on such tress and go away to warm places which is similar to the choir of the ruined church. The poet wants his friend to picture the image of these two things and compare them. He compares the approaching old age to the bare trees and ruined church.
IV.) ACTIVITIES:
1.) When you reflect on the poem, a few vivid, concrete pictures come to your mind (like the picture of almost bare trees with just a few decaying yellow leaves hanging on their branches.) What other pictures come to your mind? List them and share them with your neighbouring pairs.
Answer: In me thou see’st the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west;
The picture of the sun setting in comes in our mind. It shows that last stage of life where the sun sets in the same way our life too ends with fast approaching old age.
2.) Look closely at the rhyming words. You will observe a pattern. What is the pattern (rhyme scheme?)
Answer: First quatrain – abab
Second quatrain – cdcd
Third quatrain – efef
Final couplet- gg
Good, tremendous