8. Answer the following questions (any five) from the poems of your text book: (a) What does the poet mean by 'useless $years^{\prime} in the poem$ "Oh me! Oh Life!"? . (b) How are the two mothers different from each other? (c) Why did the poet stop by the woods though it was dark and he was alone? (d) What was the weather like when Mary went $\to bring the cattle$ home? (e) What should children do $\to their$ mother? (f) Why does the poet call time an old gipsy man? (g) How has the poet described the sea? (h) What else can the poet offer time if it stays for a day?

1.Put the parts of the story in right order with the sequential numbers only. (a) On a fixed day, all the mice met in a meeting to find a solution to the problem. (b) There was a young and brilliant mouse who offered a plan in the meeting. (c) There were some mice that lived in a wealthy farmer's barn with happiness. (d) Different mice gave different opinions, but all of them were unacceptable. (c) The farmer brought a cat to get rid of the mice which made them panicked. (f) Hearing the question, all mice began to look at one another in frustration. (g) He proposed to tie a bell around the neck of the cat as a warning of danger. (h) An old mouse accepted the proposal and asked, "But who will bell the cat?"

2.Answer the following questions from your reading of the poems in English For Today. (any 5 out of 8) : (a) Why does the poet mention 'empty and useless $ears^{\prime} in the poem$ "O Me! O Life"? (b) How does the poem "Books" reflect the idea of '$escapism^{\prime} in relation \to reading$ books? (c) What should children do $\to their mother and$ why? (d) What does the poem 'The Sands of $Dee^{\prime} suggest about the relation between humans and$ nature? (e) What are the promises the poet had $\to keep before he would sleep in the poem$ "stopping by woods on a Snowy Evening"? (f) How does the poet address time in the poem "Time, You Old Gipsy Man"? (g) Why do the mountains echo the songs that we sing but not our sighs? (h) Why is the sea described as "hungry" in the poem "The Sands of Dee"?

3.Answer the following questions from poems (any five out of eight): (a) What does the phrase 'useless $years^{\prime} mean in$ Whitman's poem 'O Me! O Life!'? (b) Why does Eleanor Farjeon call each book 'a magic $box^{\prime}$? (c) Who are the two mothers in Joann Snow Duncanson's poem 'Two Mothers $Remembered^{\prime}$? (d) Why does Charles Kingsley call the river '$cruel^{\prime} and$ '$hungry^{\prime} in the poem$ 'The Sands of $Dee^{\prime}$? (e) Why is time called an 'old gipsy $man^{\prime} in the poem$ 'Time, You Old Gipsy $Man^{\prime}$? (f) Describe the scenery where the poet Robert Frost stopped in the poem 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy

4.Answer any five of the following questions from poems in English For Today. (a) What did the fisherman think about Mary's golden hair in "The Sands of Dee"? (b) Why does the poet use the same questions again and again in "O Me! O Life!"? (c) Why is book "a magic box" according $\to the poem$ '$Books^{\prime}$?" (d) How are the two mothers dissimilar from each other in "Two Mothers Remembered"? (e) How does the poet portray time as a traveller in "Time You Old, Gipsy Man"? (f) What does the poet want $\to say by$ "The woods are lovely, dark and deep" in "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"? (g) Why did the horse shake his harness bells in "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"? : (h) What does the poet mean by "halls of pleasure" in '$Solitude^{\prime}$?

5.Answer the following questions from your reading of the poems in English For Today (any five out of eight) : (a) What is the message of the poem "O me! O life!"? (b) Why does the poet call time an "Old Gipsy Man"? (c) "A mother's love for her children is divine." Do you support it? Why/Why not? (d) What is the main theme of the poem "Two Mothers Remembered"? (e) What does the dark and deep woods symbolise in the poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"? (f) Do you think "each book a magic box"? Why? (g) What does the poet mean by "The sad old earth must borrow its mirth"? (h) How does the poem "The Sands of Dec" portray the relationship between humans and nature?

6.Answer any five of the following questions from the poems in 2x5=10 English For Today: (a) What does the poet refer by 'useless $years^{\prime} in the poem$ 'O Me! O $Life^{\prime}$!? (b) What rises in our fancies and our eyes according $\to the poem$ '$Books^{\prime}$? (c) Who was the speaker's second mother in the poem 'Two Mothers $Rememberd^{\prime}$? (d) What things will the poet offer time in the poem 'Time, You Old Gypsy $Man^{\prime} if it stays just for a$ day? (e) Why did the poet, Robert Frost, stop by the woods when it was dark and he was alone? (f)What does the poet mean by the verse 'And miles $\to go before I sleep^{\prime} in the poem$ 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy $Evening^{\prime}$? (g) When do you have friends and when do they leave you according $\to the poem$ '$Solitude^{\prime}$? (h) How has the poet described the western tide in the poem, 'The Sands of $Dee^{\prime}$?

7.Answer any five of the following questions from the poems. (a) How does Whitman view the role of humanity in "O Me! O Life!"? (b) What does the phrase "The powerful play goes on" mean in "O Me! O Life!"? (c) What does the poem '$Books^{\prime} suggest about reading as a mental$ journey? (d) What does the poem 'Two Mothers Remembered" suggest about patience? (e) What does the poet suggest about human resilience in "The Sands of Dee"? (f) Why does the poet use the metaphor of a caravan in "Time, You Old Gipsy Man"? (g) What is the role of snow in "Stopping by Woods On a Snowy Evening"? (h) What does the poet mean by "Be glad and your friends are many" in "Solitude"?

8.Answer any five of the following questions from the poems of your text book: (a) According $\to the poem what is the importance of$ solitude? (b) What makes the poet stop by the woods? (c) Why cann't the poet enjoy the natural scenery in the woods? (d) What do the books hold for their lovers in between their outside covers? (e) How does the poet personify time? (f) Make a list of things the poet will offer time if it stays just for a day. (g) Why does the poet call "each book a magic box" in $the^{\prime}$ poem? (h) How is Mary's hair described in the poem 'The Sands of $Dee^{\prime}$?

9.Answer any five of the following questions from the poems of your textbook: (a) What does the poet mean by "eyes that vainly crave the light" in the poem "O Me! O Life!"? (b) Did the speaker love both the mothers? Why? (c) What do books bring in our fancies and eyes? (d) How has the poet described the sea in the poem "The Sands of Dee"? (e) What is the significance of time being compared $\to a$ 'Gipsy $Man^{\prime}$? (f) Why did the poet stop by the woods though it was dark and he was alone? (g) What task was Mary given in the poem "The Sands of Dec"? (h) "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone;"-Explain briefly in the light of the poem '$Solitude^{\prime}.$

10.Answer any five of the following questions from poems. (a) Why does the poet call each book a magic box? ( b) What does the poet Walt Whitman mean by 'useless $years^{\prime} in the poem$ 'O Me! O Life!" (c) How was the weather when Mary went $\to call the cattle$ home? (d) Why does the poet call Time an 'Old gypsy $man^{\prime}$? (e) Which two things do we find in our '$fancies^{\prime} and our eyes in the poem$ '$Books^{\prime}$? (f) Make a list of things the poet will offer time if it stays just for a day. (g) Who was the first mother? What did she do $\to the$ poet? ( h) Why did the poet stop by the woods though it was dark, and he was alone?

11.Answer the following questions from poens. (any. 5) (a) How do books contribute to the formation of new ideas and the introduction to new people (b) "I had two mothers." Explain how the speaker had two mothers. (c) What is the tone of the poem "The Sands of Dee"? (d) How does the poet connect Time to cities and civilizations? (e) "He will not see me stopping here." Whom does the poet refer to? (f) What does the "sad old earth" symbolize in the context of the poem "Solitude"? (g) Explain the mood of the speaker of the poem "O Me! O Life!". (h) What other benefits do you think reading books can give you?

12.Answer the following questions from your reading of the poems in English For Today. (any 5 out of 8) (a) What does the poet mean by 'the \end{less}trains of the faithless^{\prime} in the poem 'O Me! O Life!'? (b) What do books bring in our fancies and eyes? (c) How are the two mothers different from each other? (d) What emotional transition does the poet experience in the poem 'Two Mothers $Remembered^{\prime}$? (e) How does 'The cruel hungry $foam^{\prime} signify in the poem$ 'The Sands of $Dee^{\prime}$? (f) How does the poet plan $\to honor Time in the poem$ 'Time, You Old Gipsy $Man^{\prime}$? (g) What is the central theme of the poem 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy $Evening^{\prime}$? (h) What does the poem suggest about human nature in the poem '$Solitude^{\prime}$?