The Brook Question Answers – Odisha Board – Class 10 English
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The Brook Class 10 English Odisha Board
Board | Odisha State Board |
Class | 10th |
Subject | English (Detailed Text) |
Chapter | The Brook |
Topic | Question Answers Solution |
THE BROOK
Let’s understand the poem:
1.) Where does the brook come from?
Answer: The brook comes from the birds’ place of coot and hem.
2.) How does it “sparkle”?
Answer: It sparkles with the sun’s light which reflects on it.
3.) What does the brook pass through during its journey?
Answer: The brook passes through thirty hills, slips between the narrow hills, twenty villages, a little town and fifty bridges.
4.) Where does it finally meet the river?
Answer: The river meets finally at the Philip’s farm.
5.) What does the poet mean by the statement “with many a curve my banks I fret”?
Answer: The river doesn’t flow in a straight way, it gets angry because it has to take many curves. In other words, though the river wants to flow in a straight manner, the path by which it has to flow is not straight, it is curvy.
6.) Why does the poet repeat the word ‘chatter’ in the poem?
Answer: Chatter here refers to the sound made by the brook on the way to its journey. It makes different sounds on its way.
7.) What does the poet want to say by using the words ‘steal’ and ‘slide’?
Answer: The words ‘steal’ and ‘slide’ refers to the secretive and noiseless movement of the brook.
8.) What does the poet mean by ‘the netted Sunbeam’ ? How does it dance?
Answer: ‘The netted sunbeam’ refers to the pattern create by the brook’s waves that appears like net by the sunrays. These are reflected on the water’s surface and it appears to be dancing as the water flows.
9.) Some lines of the poem given below are not in order. Arrange them in their sequential order to make them meaningful.
Answer: i) I murmur under moon and stars
In brambly wildernesses;
I linger by my shingly bars;
I loiter round my cresses;
ii) To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go
But I go on for ever.
And out again I curve and flow
Let’s appreciate the poem:
(a) 1.) What do you mean by the word ‘bicker’ ? Why does the poet use this word here ?
Answer: The brook suddenly emerges in the hilly area. When it moves, it creates various sounds which seem to be similar to arguing. In other words, the bicker in the poem refers to the sudden movement of the brook that creates sounds. It is used here to give the idea of the sudden movement of the brook.
2.) What picture do you imagine when you go through the line “ I wind about, and in and out” ?
Answer: The brook doesn’t flow in a straight line, it goes through high and low. It goes through various paths and structure. Its winding movement makes it fall and rise.
3.) How does the brook chatter?
Answer: The brook chatters on the stony ways. When it is on the banks of the land, it creates high sound. It creates the sound of bubbles when it falls from the height. When it is on the pebbles, it has soft sound.
4.) Why has the poet used the word “brimming”?
Answer: The word refers to something that is abundance. The poet has used the word to indicate that the river in which the brook is going to meet is full of water.
5.) What kind of a picture does it create in your mind?
Answer: It creates a picture of completeness. It indicates that the river is full of water and life.
6.) Why does the poet repeat the expression, ‘For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever’?
Answer: The poet wants to tell that people may come and go, but the brook is permanent. Men has end which means he man dies but the brook and the beauty of the nature is eternal and has no end. The poet repeats the expression to emphasize that the nature is forever and man is not. Nature has the power to sustain for longer period of time whereas man does not have this power.
(b) Answer the following questions choosing the correct alternative.
1- The poet compares the journey of the brook with the life of a man.
a) the worries and anxieties in a man’s life
b) the talkative nature of human beings
c) the death of a man
d) the life of a man
2- The lines “And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling” suggest that fishes are alive because of water
i) the brook is full of life
ii) the brook enjoys all kinds of scenes
iii) people enjoy the beauty of the brook
iv) fishes are alive because of water
3- The poem is narrated in the first person by the brook.
i) poet
ii) nature
iii) flower
iv) brook
4- The message of the poem is that the life of a brook is eternal.
i) temporary
ii) short-lived
iii) eternal
iv) momentary
(c) Make a list of seven pairs of rhyming words used by the poet in the poem.
Answer:
1.) Hern- fern
2.) Sally- valley
3.) Down- town
4.) Ridges- bridges
5.) Flow- go
6.) River- ever
7.) Ways- bays
8.) Trebles- pebbles
9.) Fret- set
10.) Fallow- mallow