MP Board 9th English Section D Extract Beehive Poetry Question Bank
(B) Extracts from poetry (Beehive) 1×3=3 marks
Extract -1
When the humid shadows hover
Over all the starry spheres
And the melancholy darkness
Gently weeps in rainy tears,
What a bliss to press the pillow
Of a cottage- chamber bed
And lie listening to the patter
Of the soft rain overhead!
Question:
(i)From which poem the above extract has been taken?
(a) The Road Not Taken (b) Rain on the Roof (c) Wind
(ii). The opposite of the word ‘bliss’ is——-
(a) wish (b) curse (c) desire
(iii) Where do the shadows hover?
(a)on pillow(b) on starry spheres(c) on rainy tears
Extract-2
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And locked down once as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth
Questions:
i) What does ‘yellow wood’ mean?
(a) spring (b) autumn (c) winter
ii)Why was the traveller feeling sorry?
a) because he could not travel
b) because he could not travel both the roads
c) because he could travel
iii) From which poem the above lines have been taken?
(a)Wind (b)The Road Not Taken (c) Rain on the Roof
Extract-3
Now in memory comes my mother
As she used in years agone,
To regard the darling dreamers
Ere she left them till the dawn:
O! I feel her fond look on me
As I list to this refrain
Which is played upon the shingles By the patter of the rain.
Question:
i)Which sound is the poet listening to?
(a) sound of wind (b) sound of insects (c) sound of rain
ii)The sound reminds the poet of-
(a)his father (b) his mother (c) his brother
iii)Which word in the extract means “the ability to remember things”?
Extract 4
Wind, come softly
Don’t break the shutters of the windows
Don’t scatter the papers
Don’t throw down the books on the shelf.
Questions:
i)Whom does the poet request in the above lines?
ii)Write any one action of the wind.
iii)Find out a word from the extract which means “thrown in different directions”.
Extract-5
Then took the other, as just as fair,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,”
Questions:
(i) How was the other road?
(a) It was still grassy (b) The other road was dusty (c)The road was full of stones.
(ii) Why did the second road present a better claim than the first?
(a) It had never been walked before (b) It was still dusty. (c) It was beautiful.
(iii) Who has composed the above poem?
(a) Robert Frost b) Phoebe Cary (c) Subramania Bharti
Extract-6
Frail crumbling houses, crumbling doors, crumbling rafters,
crumbling wood, crumbling bodies, crumbling lives,
crumbling hearts the
wind god winnows and crushes them all.
Questions:
(i) Why are the houses, doors, rafters etc. crumbling?
(a)because they are weak (b) because they are solid (c) because they are strong
(ii) Why has the wind been called ‘god’?
(a) because, like ‘god’, he uses his power
(b) remove and crush the undesirable, weak things.
(c) both (i) and ii)
(iii) What does the wind god do?
(a) using its force winnows and crushes
(b) protects all
(c) none of the above