Sonnet
I.. Write down your answers.
1.Torn Dutt is taking a stroll amid the trees in her
garden. She sees “a sea of foliage”. What does she mean by “sea” of foliage?
Explain in your own, words.
Answer:The meaning of “sea” of foliage is that Tom Dutt compares the greenery
surrounding her family garden with the sea. She also says that while the sea
has an unchanged green colour, her garden is filled with different and exciting
shades of green like light green of tamarind tree, deep green of mango grove.
2.The greenery you are watching seems dull if it is un
_______
Answer:unvaried.
3.What does the phrase “not a sea of a dull unvaried
green” mean? Explain.
Answer:Just one type of plant everywhere like the sea which remains unchanged
will be dull in the same the same type of plant will gives dull impression. But
in the poet’s garden there is mixture of plants, colours and textures which
could be a sea of foliage around her garden which is spectacular, greenery
surrounding her family.
4.The poet gives one example of colour contrast. What
example is it?
Answer:A contrast is found in brilliant red colour of flowers of the seemul
tree which takes one by surprise like the sudden shrill sound of triumphet.
5.Have you seen the bunches of leaves on a mango tree? Are
they all green? What about fresh bunches?
Answer:All the bunches of leaves on a mango tree are not all green. The tender
fresh bunches are pink in colour. The older bunches are dark green in colour.
The colour in the bunch of leaves changes from pink to light green to dark
green as the leaves become older.
6.Can you draw pictures of a bunch of mango leaves and a
picture of a tamarind leaf? Try
Answer:Draw yourself
7.What “grey pillars” arise between the mango and the
tamarind trees? Can you draw a picture of this tree? Try.
Answer:Grey pillars are referred to stately palms which grow in between the
fresh bunches of Tamarind trees and Mango trees.
8.The poet says seemuls are startlingly red. How does she
explain their lurid brightness? What does she compare them with?
Answer:The palms look like grey pillars between the maroon coloured silk-cotton
trees which makes her feel surprised like when. hearing trumpets sound. She
compares them with.
9.A sudden blare of a trumpet outside your quiet room
would startle you. The glaring red ____ of the ____ startled the poet.
Answer:colour, seemuls
10.After describing some lovely scenes the poet talks
about the loveliest scene of all. What is it? Describe it in your own words.
Answer:The loveliest however are the lines of bamboo tree growing towards the
eastern side of the garden, when the moon shines through the bamboo trees the
white lotus looks like silver cup, the scene is so enchanting that one might
almost faint intoxicated by beauty.
11.Enjoying the beauty of Nature, the poet says even
enjoyment can become unbearable. What words express this idea? Explain what she
says in your own words.
Answer:“Looks through their gaps, and white lotus changes, Into a cup of
silver, one might swoon, drunken with beauty then, or gaze and gaze on a
primeval Eden, in amaze.
The words in the second line show even enjoyment can become unbearable. White
lotus looks like a silver cup. The scene is so enchanting that one might almost
feint intoxicated by beauty or say in wonder at what looks like the garden of
Eden, the first garden by God for Adam and Eve.
12.There are three Metaphors and three similes in this
poem. Find them. Talk to your partner about them. (Metaphor: The use of words
to indicate something different from the literal meaning; Simile: Comparison of
one thing to another)
Answer:Simile:
1. Red, red and starting like a trumpet’s sound
2. Palms rise like pillars grey
3. Lotus looks like a silver cup.
Mataphor:
1. Sea of foliage
2. One might swoon drunken with beauty
3. And over the quite pools the seemuls lean.
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