Gujarat Board GSEB Solutions Class 11 English Second Language Unit 9 Read 2 A Poem Textbook Exercise Questions and Answers.
GSEB Std 11 English Textbook Solutions Unit 9 Read 2 A Poem (2nd Language)
GSEB Class 11 English A Poem Text Book Questions and Answers
Comprehension
(Based on Textbook Contents)
Question 1.
Read the poem and give appropriate title.
Answer:
The most appropriate title for this poem could be ‘The Water Picture Image’.
2. List the living and non-living things from the poem.
| Living | Non-living |
| dogs, baby, ducks | long buildings, chimneys, flag, fishhook, stone bridge, hats, balloon, buoy |
3. Identify these as actual (A) or virtual (V) and pair them:
- dogs (A)
- 3 (V)
- hang (V)
- wags (V)
- a flag (A)
- bounce (V)
- ducks (A)
- chimneys (A)
- long buildings (A)
- looks like an eye (V)
- bark on their backs (V)
- the arched stone building (A)
4. Answer the following questions in two to three sentences each:
Question 1.
Why are all things doubled in the park?
Answer:
Actually, things are just one In number, but their reflection in the pond water makes them look like doubled.
Question 2.
Why is it said that dogs go by barking on their backs?
Answer:
Actually the dogs are passing by the pond In the park barking. Their reflection In the pond looks as if the dogs are half bent towards their back and are barking. The twisted Image
of the dogs shows that they go by barking on their backs.
Question 3.
Which principle of science do you find in the poem?
(a) Refraction
(b) Reflection
(c) Gravitation
(d) Density
Answer:
(b) Reflection
Question 4.
What are a flag and the arched stone bridge compared to?
Answer:
The flag is compared to a fishhook and the arched stone bridge is compared to an eye.
Question 5.
Imagine two swans in front of each other. Draw them with their reflection in water.
[Note : Students will draw the reflection of swans in water in their notebooks.]
Listen to this poem on:
http://www.poemhunter.com / poems / water / page- /179724 /
Note : Students will listen to this poem on this website.)
Poetry Comprehension
Read the stanzas and answer the questions:
(1) In the pond in the park
all things are doubled:
Long buildings hang and
wriggle gently. Chimneys
are bent legs bouncing
on clouds below. A flag
wags like a fishhook
down there in the sky
Question :
(1) How do the things seem in the pond in the park? Why?
(2) Which objects are mentioned In the poem? How do they Look Like?
(3) Pick out the synonymous word for twist from the stanza.
Answer:
(1) All the things In the pond In the park seem doubled because they are the original ones and their reflections In the pond-water.
(2) Long buildings seem hanging and wriggling gently. Chimney’s seem bending their legs and bouncing on the clouds below them and a flag seems wagging like a fishhook.
(3) The synonymous word for Iwlst in the stanza Is ‘wriggle’.
(2) The arched stone bridge
Is an eye. with underlid
In the water. In its lens
dip crinkled heads with hats
that don’t fall off. Dogs go by.
barking on their backs.
A baby, taken to feed the
ducks, dangles upside-down,
a pink balloon for a buoy.
Questions:
(1) How do the arched stone bridge appear in the water?
(2) How do dogs. a baby and a pink balloon seem In the water?
(3 ) Pick out the phrase meaning become fond of’ from the stanza.
Answer:
(1) The arched stone bridge appears like an eye with underlined In the water.
(2) Dogs seem going by barking on their backs, a baby seems dangling upside-down and a pink balloon looks like a buoy.
(3) The phrase meaning ‘become fond of’ in the stanza is ‘taken to’.
A Poem Summary in Gujarati
કવિ શ્રી મૅ સ્પેન્સન આ કાવ્યમાં એક બગીચામાંના તળાવમાં પડતા પ્રતિબિંબનું આબેહૂબ વર્ણન કરે છે. હળવાં મોજાં ધરાવતા આ તળાવમાં પ્રતિબિંબિત બધી જ વસ્તુઓ બેવડી દેખાય છે.
ઊંચાં મકાનો ખૂલતાં અને અમળાતાં નજરે પડે છે. (કારખાનાઓની) ચીમનીઓ પગ વાળીને નીચેનાં વાદળ પર કૂદકો મારતી હોય તેવી દેખાય છે.
ધ્વજ જાણે કે માછલાં પકડવાની આંકડી (ગલ) અને કમાનવાળો પથ્થરનો બનેલો પુલ જાણે કે આંખ જેવો દેખાય છે. કૂતરાં જાણે કે પીઠ પર ભસતાં ન હોય તેવાં દેખાય છે અને બતકોને ખવડાવવા આવેલી નાની બાળકી એકદમ ઊલટી પ્રતિબિંબિત થાય છે.
Glossary (શબ્દાર્થ)
ભાષાંતર
ઉદ્યાનમાં આવેલા તળાવમાં બધી ચીજો બેવડાય છે:
ઊંચાઈવાળાં મકાનો લટકી રહ્યાં છે અને હળવેકથી સળવળે છે.
ધૂમનળીઓ પગ વાળીને નીચે (પસાર થતાં) વાદળો પર કૂદકો મારી રહ્યાં છે.
ત્યાં આકાશમાં નીચે (તરફ) એક ધજા માછલી પકડવાના અંકોડાની જેમ આમથી તેમ ફરફરે છે.
(પેલો) કમાનવાળો પથરિયો પુલ (જાણે કે) પાણીમાં પોપચાં ઢાળેલી આંખ છે.
તેના દષ્ટિપથમાં કદી પડી ન જતી હૅટ પહેરેલાં ઊંડી કરચલીઓ પડેલાં માથાં ડૂબકી મારે છે.
નજીકથી પસાર થતાં કૂતરાં જાણે કે) પૂંઠે વળીને ભસે છે.
(પેલાં) બતકોને ખવડાવવા લઈ જવાતું બાળક અવળું-સવળું ઝોલાં ખાય છે. અને પેલો આકાશમાં ઊડતો) ફુગ્ગો (જાણે) બોયું (દીસે) છે. – મેં સ્પેન્સન