Tamilnadu Board Samacheer Kalvi 10th English Poem Solutions Chapter 5: Tamilnadu State Board Solution Class 10 English Chapter 5 Poem – The Secret Of The Machines.
Samacheer Kalvi 10th English Poem Solutions Chapter 5: Overview
Board | Samacheer Kalvi |
Class | 10 |
Subject | English |
Unit | (5) Poem |
Chapter Name | The Secret Of The Machines |
Samacheer Kalvi Class 10th Poem The Secret Of The Machines Question Answer Solution
Poem
THE SECRET OF THE MACHINES
Rudyard Kipling
(A) Answer the following questions briefly.
(1) Who does ‘we’ refer to in first stanza?
(a) Human beings
(b) Machines
(2) Who are the speakers and listeners of this poem?
Answer: The speakers are the machines and the listeners are the readers.
(3) What metals are obtained from ores and mines?
Answer: Steel, tin, copper, gold are some of the metals that are obtained from ores and mines.
(4) Mention a few machines which are hammered to design.
Answer: Screw, wheel, lever, wedge, are a few machines which are hammered to design.
(5) Mention the names of a few machines that run on water, coal or oil.
Answer: Generator, steam engine, water heater, plane, ship are a few machines that run on water, coal or oil.
(6) Mention a few machines used for pulling, pushing, lifting, driving, printing, ploughing, reading, and writing etc.
Answer: Pulling- Pulley
Pushing-Wheel and axle
Lifting- Crane
Driving- car, bus
Ploughing- Tractor
Reading – computer, mobile
Writing-Tabs, mobile, computer
(7) Are machines humble to accept the evolution of human brain? Why?
Answer: Yes, machines are humble to accept the evolution of human brain. They know that it is the human brain that they are the creation of else they are nothing.
(8) What feelings are evoked in us by the machines in this poem?
Answer: The feelings of happiness and dignity are evoked in us by the machines because we humans have intelligence to create machines and make utmost use of it.
(9) ‘And a thousandth of an inch to give us play:’
Which of the following do the machines want to prove from this line?
(a) Once Machines are fed with fuel, they take a very long time to start.
(b) Once Machines are fed with fuel, they start quickly.
(10) And now, if you will set us to our task, We will serve you four and twenty hours a day!
(a) Who does the pronoun ‘you’ refer to here?
Answer: ‘You’ is refers to the readers/ people who use machines.
(b) Whose task is referred to as ‘our task’ here?
Answer: Work of machine is referred in the above lines.
(c) Open conditional clause is used in the given line. Why is the future tense ‘will set’ and ‘will serve’ used both in the ‘if clause’ and in the ‘main clause?’
Answer: Open conditional clause refers to the future event. Here the words are repeated to give emphasis that the machines will surely complete their assigned task.
(d) Do the machines serve us twenty four hours a day?
Answer: Yes, machines do serve us twenty four hours a day.
(e) Rewrite the given lines with the ending ‘365 days a year.’
Answer: And now, if you will set us to our task, We will serve you 365 days a year.
Activity
(B) Write your favourite stanza from the poem and find the rhyming scheme.
Answer: Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes,
It will vanish and the stars will shine again,
Because, for all our power and weight and size,
We are nothing more than children of your brain!
Rhyme Scheme- abab
(C) Read the poem and find the lines for the following poetic devices or write your own example.
(1) Alliteration- (a) We were taken from the ore-bed and the mine,
(b) We can pull and haul and push and lift and drive,
(c) We can print and plough and weave and heat and light,
(d) Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes,
(2) Assonance- (a) Some water, coal, and oil isall we ask,
(b) The hang man
(3) Personification- (a) We can neither love nor pity nor forgive,
(4) Simile- (a)You are a Barbie doll.
(b) You are as strong as a lion