KSEEB Karnataka SSLC Solution Class 10 English Second Language – Off to Outer Space Tomorrow Morning
Board |
KSEEB (Karnataka Board) |
Exam |
SSLC (Class 10) |
Subject |
English |
Language |
2nd Language |
Chapter |
8 |
Chapter Name |
Off to Outer Space Tomorrow Morning |
Topic |
Solution of Question Answer/ Study Material and Notes |
Off to Outer Space Tomorrow Morning Class 10 English SSLC Study Material / Notes / Question Answer
Understand the poem
1.) Pick out two phrases from line 1 which suggest the final moments for the launch of the rocket.
Answer: Count Down and last look
2.) With what feelings is the speaker flying out of the earth?
a) despair
b) lack of confidence
c) apprehension
d) doubt about his return to the earth
e) ………………………………………………….
Choose your response from the ones given above or give your own.
Say which line or lines in the first stanza support your response.
Answer: You can start the Count Down; you can take a last look;
3.) State the reason for the poet to say “calendars and clocks” are useless in space ( stanza 2 )
Answer: Since there is no change in the atmosphere and no track of time, so the poet says that the calendars and clocks are useless in space.
4.) The expression “winter under lock,” means, that in space,
a) there is no change of seasons.
b) seasons change frequently.
c) weather is chill always.
d) weather is very hot always.
5.) The speaker has the feeling that he is imprisoned. What might have been the reason for him to have such a feeling? ( Read lines 9 to 12)
Answer: In the space, there is complete no connection with the people. The speaker doesn’t have a letter to write or there is no way of communication. Nobody visits him and he is all alone, so he feels like he has been imprisoned.
6.) The speaker says, “Tea cups circling round me like the planets round the sun.” Why does it happen only in space and not on the earth?
Answer: There is gravitation force on the earth but this is not in the space. There is absence of the gravitational pull in the space and this is why tea cups or any other object would revolve around him like the planets revolve round the sun.
7.) Read stanza 5, and identify the indirect comparison (metaphor) in it.
Answer: Tracking through your telescope my upward shooting star,
8.) The speaker in the line (19) says “But you needn’t think I’ll give a damn for you.” This is same as saying
a) I don’t think I will have time to think about you.
b) I don’t think I will have no time to think about you.
Read and appreciate
1.) The tone of the poem is one of
a) mourning [X]
b) jubilation [√]
c) disappointment [X]
d) sadness [X]
e) humour [X]
f) anger [X]
g) protest [X]
You may think more than one is appropriate. Mark () if you think so, and mark () if you do not. Justify your choice in your group.
2.) Do you think that the repetition of the last line of every stanza is intentional? What might have been the purpose behind it? What does it suggest? Sing it aloud and try to find out the answer.
Answer: Yes, the last line of every stanza is intentional as it suggests that the speaker is very much excited to be off to outer space. He repeats it to show the intensity of his excitement to come in the outer space soon.
3.) The poem is not full of figures of speech. Yet the poem has two similes. Pick them.
Answer: In solit’ry confinement as complete as any gaol
With the tea cups circling round me like the planets round the Sun,
4.) Pick some instances of daily routine mentioned in the poem. Do you think the speaker doesn’t want to do these things?
Answer: Passing helmet from the plastic hook, crossing the name from the telephone book, looking at the calendar and clock for date and time reference, writing letters and posting them, visiting friends, watching television, are some instances of daily routine mentioned in the poem.
The speaker wants to do these things.
5.) A group of rhyming words has been given to you. Write down the remaining ones. You may practise them with proper pronunciation with the help of your teacher.
Look, hook, book.
Answer: Clock – lock – knock
Mail – hail
Begun – sun – one
Afar- star – are
Hop –stop – top
6.) The rhyme scheme in the poem is a aa b. Do you find any other rhyme scheme in the pattern of the poem? Look at the last line of all the stanzas, and find it out.
Answer: The last lines are same in every stanza. It ends with the word ‘morning.’