KSEEB Karnataka SSLC Solution Class 10 English Second Language – The Song of India
Board |
KSEEB (Karnataka Board) |
Exam |
SSLC (Class 10) |
Subject |
English |
Language |
2nd Language |
Chapter |
4 |
Chapter Name |
The Song of India |
Topic |
Solution of Question Answer/ Study Material and Notes |
The Song of India Class 10 English SSLC Study Material / Notes / Question Answer
Understand the poem:
1.) Identify the two speakers in the poem. What does the speaker want to sing about?
Answer: The two speakers in the poem are the poet and his motherland.
2.) What are the epics? Why does the poet call the temples as ‘epics in stone’?
Answer: Epics are long narrative poems telling of hero’s deeds. The poet says that the ‘epics in stone’ because every temple has scriptures and cravings that depicts stories from long time ago.
3.) Who does the poet mean by ‘of your children that died to call their own’?
Answer: The poet refers to the soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the protection of their motherland.
4.) What, according to the poet, is the contribution of the seers and prophets?
Answer: According to the poet, the seers and prophets have contributed by giving their precious knowledge to the others.
5.) Why is the poet ‘querulous’? What does he want to do?
Answer: The poet wanted to sing song for his motherland. He wanted to sing about the soldiers and good people and their achievements. But the mother asks him to sing about the strikes, of iron men. Then the poet asks her in complaining manner if there were no songs which he could sing for that he could sing whole-heartedly, a song that would be pure and remain for a long time.
6.) How is he answered? Describe the vision. (Refer stanza 4)
Answer: The poet was answered in a magnificent manner. He saw that the mother rose and draped in the blue sky. There were milky-white oceans around her and their waves sent forth a wonderful and illuminated her. She sat on them and seems to write the book of the morrow (future time). She saw a new destiny, a new future just as bright like the sun. She says that the new future will be clear dawn suggesting a new beginning. The nightmare (bad times) will flee away. The future will be the sun-beam that acts like the hand that saves.
7.) What do the night, the sun god and the clear dawn represent?
Answer: The night represents all the sorrows and hardships. The sun represents the hand that saves and new beginning. The clear dawn represents the bright future.
Read and appreciate:
1.) What is the picture of India that you get in stanza 1 of the poem?
Answer: The first stanza gives a vivid picture of India. The poet talks about the Himalayas which has snow peaks. He talks about the three oceans i.e The Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean. He talks about the optimistic side of our motherland and praises its beauty.
2.) How does the poet describe the Mother’s anger? Name the figure of speech used in stanza 2.
Answer: That beat into my ears like gong,
The mother expresses anger and the poet felt it completely.
The figure of speech is simile.
3.) Explain the lines ‘A song bathed in the stainless blue unvapouring in the void.’
Answer: Here stainless blue refers to the clear sea which is a metaphor. This metaphor suggests that a song that is free of any pessimism and pure just like the sea. Unvapouring in the void refers to clear without any mist in the sky. In other words, the poet wants to suggest that the song which is free of any negativity and is pure.
4.) What does ‘the Motherland writing the Book of the Morrow’ signify?
Answer: ‘The Book of the Morrow’ refers that the mother has the vision of the bright future. She wants to see India free of any problem. Despite all the negativity, she is optimistic and hopes of the positive new beginnings.
5.) Write in brief your vision of the future of India.
Answer: I envision of bright and technological advanced India. I hope that everyone has job in the future time and our country is free of dangerous diseases. I hope to see India where we will have equality in walk of life.