MP Board 9th English Long Answer type Questions Beehive Poetry Question Bank

MP Board 9th English Long Answer type Questions Beehive Poetry Question Bank

Q.15 Long Answer Type Questions from Poetry from Beehive (75 words) 3 marks

Poem 1 The Road Not Taken

1. What do the two roads stand for?
2. Where did the two roads diverge? What was the difficulty?
3. Write the central idea of the poem ‘The Road Not Taken’.
4. What would the poet tell after ages with a sigh?
5. Describe the two paths that the poet finds. Which road did he choose?
   Was the poet satisfied with his decision of taking the second road? Why or why not?

Poem 2 Wind

1. What should we do to make friends with the wind?
2. How is wind by nature?
3. What does the poet say the wind god winnows?
4. Write the central idea of the poem ‘Wind’.

Poem 3 Rain on the Roof

1.Why does the poet call the sound of the rain as ‘refrain’?
2.What does the poet like to do when it rains? Is the poet now a child? Is his mother still alive?
3.Do you like rain? What do you do when it rains steadily or heavily as described in the poem?
4.What is the message of the poem “Rain on the Roof”?

Poem 4 The Lake Isle of Innisfree

1.What are the ideas contained in the poem “THE Lake Isle of Innisfree”?
2.In the poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree‟, what does the poet find so attractive about?
3.In your opinion, what words or phrases used by the poet are the most effective in bringing the person, place or thing for life? Give reasons for your answer.
4.Does the poem ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’ celebrate the theme of escapism? Explain

Poem5 A Legend of the Northland

1. What is the theme of the poem, ‘A Legend of the Northland’?
2. Write the story of ‘A Legend of the Northland’.
3. What is the significance of Woodpecker bird in the poem?

Poem 6 No Men Are Foreign

1. Why does the poet call harvests ‘peaceful’ and war as ‘winter’?
2. How does the poet propose to win over other countries?
3. What is the central idea of the poem?

Poem 7 The Duck and the Kangaroo

1. What do you learn about the Duck from the poem?
2. What do you learn about the Kangaroo from the poem?

Poem 8 On Killing a Tree

1. What is the meaning of bleeding bark? What makes it bleed?
2. Why does it take so much time to kill a tree?
3. What is the theme of the poem on killing a tree?

Poem 9 The Snake Trying

1.Why does the poet want the snake to be spared?

Poem 10 A slumber did my spirit seal

1. How does the poet react to his loved one’s death?
2. How does the poet imagine her to be after death?
3. What is the central theme of the poem?