Poem 1 Self-Reliance
I. Answer the following questions in a sentence or two each:
1.Who is speaker in the poem?
Answer:The poet Kathleen Delicate herself is the speaker in the poem.
2.Who is alone in the poem?
Answer:The poet is alone in the poem.
3.What does the speaker decide to do if she fails?
Answer:Speaker decided to try continuously though she fails until she succeeds.
4.Who is the ruler of speaker’s kingdom?
Answer:Speaker herself is the ruler of speaker’s kingdom.
5.How can the speaker convert her choice into a victory?
Answer:Speaker converts her choice into victory by being true to herself which taught her to stand alone with self confidence which helps her to take the royal road to success.
II. Answer the following questions in a paragraph each.
1.Which line of the poem do you like? Why?
Answer:“If I fail I must continue to try”. I like this line in the poem the most because this is the line which builds up self – confidence, self respect, self reliance, determination etc. Makes a person to lace the life easily and boldly until he/she succeeds. As a proverb says “Try, until you succeed.” Since failure is a stepping stone to success a person should not get depressed or let the work go fearing about the failure, failure and success are the two faces of same coin everybody has to face both. Hard work with confidence and self-reliance definitely leads us to success.
2.Ask your partner what is self respect/ self confidence/ self reliance.
Answer:Self-respect: Respect for oneself or self respecting is the meaning of self respect. Self respect can be gained only when we should never do in secret what we should be ashamed of doing in the presence of our most valued friends.
Self- confidence: There are many people who have real talent in different lines and yet never accomplish anything, because they are afraid to make the first venture and in this way good and useful things are lost to the world. Areasonable amount of confidence in one’s own powers is necessary for success.
Self-reliance: Self-reliance means relying upon ourselves or independently taking up the decisions. Decisions taken by others about our life may go wrong, still the decisions given by others are to be scrutinized by ourselves again. So it will be better to rely on o urselves.
3.How can you show to others that you have these qualities? Give some examples, Write down what you said. “Success” is the only thing from which
Answer:we can show to others that we have all these qualities.
For ex: Whenever I got a chance to participate in any of the extra circular activities, without any hesitation, I participated, which showed my self confidence.
4.According to the poet what should we do to win in life?
Answer:According to poet, one has to realize that he/she is alone and learnt to reley on themselves and begin to stand on our own. We should not bother about criticism of others and choose a better path to success. To win, we have to trust ourself which helps us to take the royal road of success.
III. Choose the correct answer.
1.Ruler of speaker’s kingdom is
a) Poet
b) unknown person
c) lonely person
d) Now
e) Answer: a) Poet
2.Speaker is
a) realizes his alone
b) literally alone
c) lost somebody
d) All
Answer:b) literally alone
3.It’s up to ___ to make his distiny.
a) me
b) others
c) him
d) None
e) Answer: c) him
4.If speaker fails in her work she _____ to win
a) Must Continue trying
b) ask others for their opinion
c) fails
d) None
e) Answer:) Must Continue trying
IV Add to each statement one or two sentences of your own.
a. Paper distributor Prerana gets the first rank in P.U. exam.
Ans:-Prerana, studying in IIP. U.C. She earned for her family and herself, to continue her studies and has secured first rank in P.U. exam. She is the role model for all students.
b. All-women crew to fly Air India flights.
Ans:-An all-women crew took Sunitha Williams on an to Air India flight.
b. Indian sailor all set to circumnavigate the globe.
Ans:-Indian sailors have explored a new sea-route to circumnavigate the globe.
c. Arunima, first Indian amputee to scale Everest.
Ans:-Arunima, through her self- reliance and determination successfully scaled Mt.Everest.
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