KSEEB Solution Class 9 English Second Language – It Never Comes Again
Board | KSEEB |
Class | Nine (9) |
Subject | English |
Language | 2nd Language |
Chapter | 8 |
Chapter Name | It Never Comes Again |
It Never Comes Again Class 9 English Karnataka Board Kannada
POETRY
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
1) Whose loss , do you think, is the greatest?
Answer: Mohan’s lost is the greatest for he has lost his mother.
2) Why do you think the loss of other things is not that important?
Answer: Things lost by Raju, Akbar, John can be brought again but the lost of a human being cannot be replaced by any other thing in this world.
3) Which of the losses can be compensated and which cannot be?
Answer: Cricket bat, story book and collection of rare stamps can be compensated at time but the loss of mother cannot be compensated.
POEM
IT NEVER COMES AGAIN
Understand the poem:
The poem has a wonderful message. Read it again and discuss your views on the following questions with your partners.
1.) What happens when youth departs?
Answer: When youth departs, something is taken away from the heart and it never comes again.
2.) How does a person feel when he is youthful?
Answer: When a person is young, one feels stronger and better.
3.) The poet says, “We sigh in vain.” Why?
Answer: When the youth time is gone, that time cannot be brought back so the poet feels sad for it.
4.) Where does a person look for youth, after it is gone?
Answer: When the youth is gone, a person looks for it in the air, on the earth and everywhere.
5.) Why does the poet compare losses and gains with youth?
Answer: The things we do in our youth decide our future. It is the where we can either make it or break it so it is related to losses and gains of our life.
6.) What is the message of the poem?
Answer: The poet tells us to enjoy the period of youth. We should make the best use of our youth. It is in this stage where we can have maximum energy and we should utilize in the best way. Once the youth is lost, we cannot get it back so it is important to make wise things in our youth.
Read and Appreciate:
A) Read the following lines that appear in the second stanza of the poem :
“Still we feel that something sweet
Followed youth, with flying feet,
And will never come again.”
The poet describes youth as ‘something sweet’. Do you agree with him? Why? Discuss in groups.
Answer: Yes, I agree with the poet. The time that went away cannot be brought back but we can surely have the sweet time in other years also.
2.) The poet says, ‘There are gains for all our losses’. Do you agree with this? Give reasons.
Answer: There are something things in life that cannot be replaced. Materialistic losses can be gained back by any way but beloved people once lost cannot be replaced. Not every loss has gain.
3.) Which line/s in the poem do you like the most? Why? Tell your friends.
Answer: We are stronger, and are better,
Under manhood’s sterner reign;
I like the above lines the most. These lines tell us how in youth we are strong and better. It the time where we can have the best of our life and gain many things.
4.) Can you think of some proverbs/quotations related to the theme of the poem?
e.g. Time and tide wait for none.
Answer: Time is money
Time fleeth away without delay
Metaphor –
1.) Her voice is music to my ears.
2.) He is the tiger of our group.
Personification-
1.) It takes something from our hearts,
2.) And it never comes again.
3.) Under manhood’s sterner reign;
4.) Still we feel that something sweet
5.) Followed youth, with flying feet,
C) Rhyming words :
Make a list of rhyming words from the poem.
e.g: pain reign.
Pain – again – chain – lane – vain
Departs – hearts-
Heart- restart- tart- cart- chart
Sweet – feet – repeat – treat – beat
Everywhere –air – fair- bear – swear
Vanish – banish – wish – swish