Karnataka SSLC First Language English Part 2 Lesson 8 Poetry Mending Wall Question Answers Solution

KSEEB Karnataka SSLC Solution Class 10 English First Language – Mending Wall

Board

KSEEB (Karnataka Board)
Exam

SSLC (Class 10)

Subject

English
Language

1st Language

Part

2
Chapter

8

Chapter Name

Mending Wall
Topic and Notes

Solution of Question Answer/ Study Material

Mending Wall Class 10 English SSLC Study Material / Notes / Question Answer

POEM 8

MENDING WALL

 

II.) COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS :

A.) Answer briefly the following questions.

1.) “Something” in line 1 refers to:

a) natural causes

b) supernatural causes

c) man-made causes.

 

2.) How does nature disturb the stones on the wall?

Answer: Snow, wind and rain disturb the stones by making them fall.

3.) How do hunters disturb the stones on the wall?

Answer: The hunters disturb the stones by forcing the rabbit out of its hiding place.

4.) Who does “they” in line 7 refer to?

Answer: “They” refers to the hunters.

5.) Who are the two characters in the poem? (Note: the speaker is not the poet)

Answer: The speaker and the poet are the two characters in the poem.

6.) When does the mending of the wall take place?

Answer: The mending of the walls take place at spring.

7.) When the poet says, “we have to use a spell to make them bal­ance”

a) he really means that they had to use a magic spell to make the stones stand one above the other

b) he is just saying it humorously

c) he regrets that he did not know magic.

 

8.) “I let my neighbour know…” (line 12)

What did the speaker let the neighbour know?

Answer: The speaker lets his neighbor know that they should set the walls between them.

9.) a) What is referred to as just another outdoor game?

Answer: The keeping of stones one upon the other.

b) Why does the speaker call it a game?

Answer: The speaker doesn’t feel the need to keep the wall so he considers it a game.

10.) What argument does the speaker give to convince his neighbour that they do not need the wall?

Answer:  The speaker says that they don’t need the walls because they had two different fields. The speaker has an apple orchard whereas his neighbor has pine trees.The speaker tries to convince him by saying that his apple orchards will never get across and eat the cones under his pine trees and vice versa.

11.) What is the neighbour’s stock reply?

Answer: “Good fences make good neighbours.” This is what the neighbor replies to the speaker.

12.) By building a wall between neighbours, what are we “walling in” and what are we “walling out?”

Answer: By “walling in” we are telling that the property is only of ours and nobody else has right to use it or come on it. By “walling out” we are telling everyone else to be out of the property.

13.) The speaker says, “I rather / he said it for himself”

a) What does “it” refer to here?

Answer: The thing that is coming in every time they repair the wall.

b) What does the speaker mean by this statement?

Answer: The speaker doesn’t wish to tell who is destroying the wall every time they repair / rebuild it. He wants his neighbor to understand that walls are not meant to be liked and they get destroyed every time.

 

14.) How does the neighbour carrying a stone in each hand appear to the poet?

Answer: To the poet, the neighbor appears to be an uncivilized inhabitant of the stone age.

15.) Darkness in line 41 refers to

a) darkness in the woods under the shade of tree.

b) a mental darkness, ignorance

c) his “blindness” to see the light in the speaker’s arguments.

 

16.) Frost says that his poem is a metaphor, saying one thing and meaning another. The wall in the poem is a metaphor. What do you think is the metaphorical meaning of wall?

Answer: The metaphorical meaning of the wall is the narrow-mindedness and shallowness of the people. It the psychological barrier that disconnects the people.

 

17.) Why do you think the speaker resents the wall? What does he want?

Answer: The speaker doesn’t wish to have the wall as it creates unnecessary barrier between him and the neighbors. He gives many reasons to convince not to have walls because at spring the walls are destroyed and they have to repair it. Also he says that there are no cows to graze over their walls.

 

B.) Close Study

Read the following extracts carefully. Discuss in pairs and then write the answers to the questions given below them.

1.) “He moves in darkness as it seems to me,

Not of woods only and the shade of trees.”

a) Who does “he” in the first line refer to?

Answer:  The speaker’s neighbor

 

b) What does “darkness” mean here?

Answer: It refers to the neighbor’s ignorance.

 

c) Why does the speaker say that “he” moves in darkness?

Answer: The neighbor doesn’t give any proper explanation on why to have the walls. He just repeats the sentence said by his father showing that how he didn’t have any reason for his quarrel.

 

2.) “Stay where you are until our backs are turned”

a) Who are these words said to?

Answer: These words are said to the boulders who build the walls.

 

b) Who does “our” refer to?

Answer: “Our” refers to the speaker and his neighbor.

 

c) What is the tone of the speaker?

Answer: The tone of the speaker is humorous.

 

III.) PARAGRAPH WRITING :

Discuss in pairs the answers to the following questions. Individually note down the points and then develop the points into one paragraph answer.

1.) If you were given a chance to live with one of these characters in the poem, whom would you like to live with? Why?

Answer: I would like to live with the speaker. He is quite humorous and free-spirited. He is someone who doesn’t believe in the walls. He wants everyone to live in peace and harmony. He feels that there is no need of the walls as they are nothing but the barriers. He doesn’t want the walls as they have to repair every time it is destroyed. He feels that even the nature supports him as every season causes some or the other harm to the walls which show that there is no need of the walls. He wants everyone to live together without any barrier or burden.

 

IV.) ACTIVITIES :

1.) The two characters, the speaker and the neighbour, have two totally opposing views on having a wall between their fields. Given below are a few statements, opinions and attitudes. Say whom does each apply to. The first two are done for you.

i.) “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall” –     Speaker

 

ii.) “good fences make good neighbours” – Neighbour

 

iii.) very conservative – Neighbour

 

iv.) logical and reasonable – Speaker

 

v.) light-hearted, humorous – Speaker

 

vi) playing safe – Neighbour

 

vii.) respects tradition – Neighbour

 

viii.) even God and nature seem to be against a wall between men – Speaker           

 

ix.) apple – Speaker

 

x.) living beyond the – Neighbour

 

xi.) an old stone – Neighbour

 

xii.) cosmopolitan in outlook – Speaker

Updated: March 18, 2022 — 1:39 pm

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