Telangana SCERT 9th Class English Solutions Chapter 4B – The River

Telangana Board Class 9 English The River Question and Answers

Board Telangana
Class 9th
Subject English
Unit 4 (4B)
Topic Solution

 

UNIT 4

B

READING

THE RIVER

 

I) Answer the following questions.

 

1) Is the river like a child? Why?

Answer: The flow of the river is free. It flows from yellow pebbles dancing in free manner without any tension, the way any child is in his childhood. Its act of free flowing is like child who roams freely.

 

2) Why does the poet call it ‘swelling river’?

Answer:  Here the poet compares the flowing of the river to the stage of man’s youth. Here the river flows through rough and smooth areas. It is fast and loud and so it swells while flowing.

 

3) ‘Seeming still yet still in motion. ’What does the word ‘still’ mean in either case?

Answer: The time seems to be still but in reality it keeps going.

 

4) How does the sea remind you of eternity?

Answer:  The flow is sea is continuous as compared to the river. When the river meets to the sea, it goes on the journey of forever. The flow of sea water is never ending so it reminds of eternity.

 

5) What do the river and the sea remind the poet of?

Answer: The river dashes into the sea and its existence gets mixed with the sea water. Just like the human beings, when the man dies, his journey toward the forver starts.

 

II) Read the poem once again and list the words in the poem which

show the movement of the river at various stages.

Answer: Movements of the river at various stages-

1) Childhood- O’er the yellow pebbles dancing,

Through the flowers and foliage glancing

 

2) Youth- Louder, faster, brawling, leaping,

Over rocks, by rose-banks, sweeping

 

3) Old age- Broad and deep, and still as time;

Seeming still, yet still in motion,

Tending onward to the ocean

 

4) Towards eternity– Down you dash into the sea

 

III) What are the images referred to in the poem? How do they add to the

beauty of the poem?

Answer: O’er the yellow pebbles dancing, Through the flowers and foliage glancing, On you rush through rough and smooth; Tending onward to the ocean, Down you dash into the sea,

The above are the images used by the poet. It adds beauty to the poem by giving us the image of the river at the various stages of life. It gives poetic effect.

 

Pick out similar expressions from the poem ‘The River’. Say why the poet

has made these comparisons. What would you compare them to?

Answer: Like a child at play.

Like impetuous youth.

Just like mortal prime.

Like eternity.

The poet compares the river with four stages of the man. He aptly brigns out the qualities of river and compares it with the stages of the man. In the childhood stage the river is free, in the youth stage it goes from rough and smooth surfaces taking every experience. In the old age the time appears to be still and then it go into the ocean which is never ending and forever.

I would compare them to the time.

Stanza Poet’s idea What is the river

compared to?

Similarities
1 young river a child Both the river and the child

dance and sparkle.

2 Young river A young person Both the river and the young person goes through smooth and rough phase with and is active
3 Old river An old person Both the river and the old man is deep in this stage and time appears to be still
4 Toward eternity Journey towards to forever In this stage both the river andthe man goes to their destination of eternity
  • Now, read the last line of each stanza. What do these lines say about the river?

Answer: The last line of each stanza compares the river to the stages of man’s life. In the first stanza it is like child, in the second stanza it is like young person free and wild, in the third stanza it is like an old man ,deep in its thoughts and in the fourth stanza it is compared to the journey of the eternity.

 

  • Do the river and its movement suggest something else to you?

Answer: Each movement of the river is compared with the movements of man’s life.In childhood movement is of free, in the youth the movement is active. In the old age the movement is still whereas the movement toward its final destination is of eternity.

 

  • Attempt an appreciation of the poem comparing and contrasting your experience of a river with that of the poet.

Answer: The poet very beautifully compares the river and its flow to the man’s life. Initially the river flows in a carefree manner just like a child who is carefree in the childhood. There are no burden and tensions in this phase so this stage is full of freedom and same is with the river. In the second stage of the river it is like a young man who go through god and bad, smooth and rough situations. Be it river or the young man both are active and fast in this stage. In the third stage of the river it is like an old man where the flow of the river is still and time appears to be still but it not. It is the stage where there is deep thinking. Man’s journey of eternity starts when the old age gets over and the river too meets with the ocean where the flow is unending.

Updated: December 7, 2021 — 2:07 pm

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *