Unseen Poem for Class 11 in English Unseen poem for class 11 covers a significant bit of the English paper. It contains around 24% imprints weightage in the test. Along these lines, students who need to score good grades in Class 11 English should rehearse the understanding entry preceding the test. To help them in their planning, we have given the CBSE Unseen poems to Class 11 English.Students should go through them and tackle the inquiries dependent on these appreciation sections.
1.Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow:ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG Good people all of every sort, Give ear unto my song; And if you find wond‟rous short, It cannot hold you long. In Islington there was a man, Of whom the world might say, That still a Godly race he ran,
Whene‟er he went to pray. A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked everyday he clad, When he put on his clothes. And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, But mongrel, puppy, whelp and hound, And curs of low degree. This dog and man at first were friends; But when the pique began, The dog, to gain some private ends, Went and bit the man. Around from all neighboring streets, The wond‟ring neighbor ran, And swore the dog had lost his wits, To bite so good a man. The wound it seem‟d both sore and sad, To every Christian eye: And while they swore the dog was mad, They swore the man would die. But soon a wonder came to light, That show‟d the rouges they lied; The man recovered of the bite , The dog it was that died.
1. Answer the following question by choosing the most appropriate option:i. The man in Islington seemed to lead a religious and pious life as____ a) He loved dogs and fed them b) He was self centered and very busy c) He went to pray regularly d) He ran charitable trust ii. The dog was different from the other dogs of the town because_____ a) it was not faithful b) it was not aggressive c) it lacked sensitivity to pain punishment and rebuke d) It had human qualities of love hate and revenge. iii. The dog went mad and bit the man because_________ a) It had to gain some selfish interests b) It was shocked by the selfish attitude of man c) The enmity between he it and the man unhinged it d) It wanted to teach man a lesson iv. The good people of the town considered the man‟s wound deplorable because_____ a) the mad dog had done something very evil b) they foresaw the end of the good man because of the dog bite c) the dog bite was unexpected and quite deep d) the action of the dog was strange and selfish v. the man recovered of the bite and the dog died because________ a) the man led a religious and pious life b) the dog was cruel, ungrateful and selfish
c) the selfish dissember was more poisonous than a mad dog d) the good dog had to go mad to bite such a kindhearted man vi. The poetic device used in the last stanza of the poem is __ a)simile b)metaphor c) metonymy d) irony vii Why did the mad dog bite the man? viii What did the people of the town predict about the man? ix. What miracle took place that surprised the people? x. Why did the dog die? xi. What did the neighbours say about the dog?
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2. Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow:
THE LITTLE BLACK BOY----- William Blake My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O, my soul is white! White as an angel is the English child, But I am black, as if bereaved of light. My mother taught me underneath a tree, And, sitting down before the heat of day, She took me on her lap and kissèd me,
And, pointing to the East, began to say: 'Look at the rising sun: there God does live, And gives His light, and gives His heat away, And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive Comfort in morning, joy in the noonday. 'And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love; And these black bodies and this sunburnt face Are but a cloud, and like a shady grove. 'For when our souls have learned the heat to bear, The cloud will vanish; we shall hear His voice, Saying, "Come out from the grove, my love and care, And round my golden tent like lambs rejoice." 'Thus did my mother say, and kissed me, And thus I say to little English boy. When I from black and he from white cloud free, And round the tent of God like lambs we joy, I'll shade him from the heat till he can bear To lean in joy upon our Father's knee; And then I'll stand and stroke his silver hair, And be like him, and he will then love me. Answer the following questions in your own words : 1. ’My soul is white’. What does white refer to? a) complexion b) purity of soul c) black boy d) English boy
2. Why does the poet compare the bodies of the two boys to a cloud? a) because clouds are dark like them b) life is transient c) clouds are pure like children 3. In what sense has the word ‘heat’ been used? 4. When will the two boys be free of the black and white clouds? 5. How will the black boy help the white one? 6. What does the black boy long for?
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3. Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow: A Photograph The poem deals with the shortness of human life pitched against the permanence of Nature. The speaker sees the photograph of her mother at a seaside holiday with her two cousins. The mother is only twelve years old at the time and now she has been dead for twelve years. The finality of death makes the feeling of loss acute and there is a terrible silence, which speaks for itself. Read the following lines and answer the questions that follow: 1. The cardboard shows me how it was When the two girl cousins went paddling Each one holding one of my mother’s hands a) What does the cardboard refer to? b) Who were the people in the picture? c) Where had the picture been taken and who had taken it? d) How old was the mother when the picture was taken? 2. All three stood still to smile through their hair At the uncle with the camera. A sweet face, My mother’s, that was before I was born And the sea, which appears to have changed less, Washed their terribly transient feet. a. Who does ‘they’ refer to? b. What is the idea expressed in the last two lines? c. Explain the figure of speech in the phrase “terribly transient feet”? d. What doyou think the poet wants to convey in sea, which appears to have changed less? 3. The sea holiday Was her past, mine is her laughter. Both wry With the laboured ease of loss. a.Who is referred to as ‘her’?. b. What do they both miss? c. Explain laboured ease of loss.
4. There is nothing to say at all. Its silence silences. Answers a. What is the context in which the poet says these lines? The poet is unhappy whenever thoughts of her mother come to her as she knows that she will never see her mother again. b. Explain: ‘its silence silences’. Death and loss of a dear one bring about a terrible void in one’s life and one is unable to put one’s emotions into words. There is a terrible silence but with feelings that cannot be expressed in any way or even shared with others. Only time can heal. The phrase’ silence silences’ is alliteration Answer the following in 30-40 words: a. What do you come to know about the personality of the mother? b. In the second stanza the poet brings about a contrast. What is it? Discuss. c. Explain the significance of the photograph. d. Explain the use of oxymoron in the poem.
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