KSEEB Solution Class 8 English Second Language – Coromandel Fishers
Board | KSEEB |
Class | Eight (8) |
Subject | English |
Language | 2nd Language |
Chapter | 6 |
Chapter Name | Coromandel Fishers |
Coromandel Fishers Class 8 English Karnataka Board Kannada
POETRY
COROMANDEL FISHERS
C1) Answer the following questions and share your responses with your partner.
1.) What sort of sounds can one hear early in the morning?
Answer: One can hear the gentle breeze, birds chirping in the early morning.
2.) How is the wind described in line two?
Answer: The wind is asleep in the arms of dawn like a child that has cried all night.
3.) Why are the nets to be gathered?
Answer: The nets are gathered to catch the fish.
4.) What do you think is the wealth to the fishermen?
Answer: Fish is the wealth to the fishermen.
Read and Write :
C2) Read and discuss your responses with your partner. Then write.
1.) What do you understand from the first line of the poem, ‘The wakening skies pray to the morning light”?
Answer: With the rise of the sun, the sky seems to be praying the morning light. It was asleep in the night and with the new day, it prays the morning light.
2.) The poet says, ‘‘Let us set our catamarans free.’’ What does it mean?
Answer: The boats are tied at the seashore. The fisherman asks his friends to untie and free it.
3.) What happens if the fishermen are late in starting their work?
Answer: If fishermen are late in starting their work, then they cannot find the fish and catch them.
4.) Why does the poet say :
[a] the sea is our mother,
Answer: Because it their only source of livelihood.
[b] the cloud is our brother,
Answer: Because if there are more clouds then they cannot go out for fishing.
[c] the waves are our comrades all?
Answer: The smooth waves help them
C3 Answer the following in a paragraph.
1.) The poet describes many things as sweet. What are they? Among them, what is considered to be the sweetest?
Answer: The shade of the coconut glade is sweet. The scent of the mango grove and the sands at the full moon day with the sound of the voices of their loved ones is also sweet. The kiss of the spray and the dance of the wild foam on the sea water is the sweetest.
C4 Name the figure of speech used in the following sentences.
1.) The wakening skies pray to the morning light. Personification
2.) The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn like a child. Simile
3.) The sea is our mother. Metaphor
4.) The cloud is our brother. Metaphor
5.) The waves are our comrades all. Metaphor
C5) List out the rhyming words in the poem, and read them out to the class.
eg. light – might
free – sea
call – all
drives – lives
grove –love
glee- sea
Additional Reading :
Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions below. Share your responses with others.
The Diver
Questions :
1.) Who is the speaker in the Poem?
Answer: The speaker in the poem is a diver.
2.) ‘A touch explode’ [line 5] What causes the explosion?
Answer: Waves of the bushes cause the explosion.
3.) The speaker says of ‘those pearls’. What really are these pearls?
Answer: Those pearls are the poet’s breath.
4.) Why does the diver wish to come back to the surface?
Answer: The diver wants to be back to the beach, the noisy crowds. He wants to be back to the ordinary world.
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