6th standard English ( Piping Down the Valleys Wild )

 

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Piping Down the Valleys Wild

I Read the following questions and tell the answers to your partner. Sometimes you will have to give reasons for what you say. Write down what you say.

1.In the first two stanzas of the poem, you see two people. Who are they? Are the happy or sad? How can you say?
Answer:The two people in the first stanza are the child in the cloud and William Blake, the piper, They are happy. The child in the cloud was laughing and asked the piper piping happy songs to pipe a song.

2.The child saw the piper first, (true/ not true). How do you know? Is (he child a boy or a girl)?
Answer:The child saw the piper first. (True) The child only spoke to piper first and the child is a boy.

3.The child had heard the piper piping below.
Answer:True

4.Why did the piper pipe with merry cheer?
Answer:The child asked the piper to pipe a song about the lamb so the piper piped with merry cheer.

5.The child liked the song the piper piped
True.

6.“And I wrote my happy songs”, says the poet. What did he wish to happen?
Answer:He wrote his happy songs, so that ev-ery child of the future may read it and enjoy.

 

7.We have enjoyed this poem haven’t we? Give reasons for your answer.
Answer:Yes, we have enjoyed this poem be-cause there is only happiness expressed.

8.There are two incidents that can happen only in someone’s dream. Skim the poem and find them.
Answer:A child appearing in the coud and talking, the piper writing his poems with clear water.

9.Why does only the child speak to the piper, not the piper to the child?
Answer:The piper is piping songs on his pipe, so he did not speak to the child.

10.The child hears the piper piping and the piper, the child speaking
Answer:True

11.Does the poet praise the quality of innocence? Skim the poem and find two symbols of innocence.
Answer:The child weeping with joy to hear the song. The piper writing the poem with water and a hollow stem of a plant.

 

II Work with your partner and do the exercise given below.

This poem is an expression of simple joys of life. It is a celebration of innocence. It is a dream like quality, you can see two incidents that can happen only in someone’s dream. There is joyous activity here. A piper catches the fancy of a child. The child goes on asking him to do things one after the other. He does them good-humouredly.