MP Board 9th English Short Answer type Questions Beehive Poem Question Bank

MP Board 9th English Short Answer type Questions Beehive Poem Question Bank

Q.12 Short Answer Type from Poem Beehive (Poetry) 30 words 2×2=4

Poem 1 The Road Not Taken

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  1. Where does the traveller find himself? What problem does he face?
  2. Which of the two roads did the poet choose and why?
  3. What do yellow woods represent?
  4. Why was the poet looking at the path?
  5. What does grassy mean in the poem?
  6. Where does the poet find himself?
  7. What do the words ‘Long I stood’ mean in the poem?

Poem 2 Wind

  1. How does the poet want the wind to come?
  2. What does the wind god do?
  3. Who has written the poem ‘Wind’?
  4. What does the wind do with the books?
  5. Why does the author ask the wind to come swiftly?
  6. How does the wind become the cause of rain?
  7. Does the wind god do what we tell him?
  8. What does the wind symbolise?

Poem 3 Rain on the Roof

  1. What does the poet like to do when it rains?
  2. What sound do the raindrops make?
  3. What makes an echo in the poet’s heart?
  4. What is the single major memory that comes to the poet?
  5. Who are the ‘darling dreamers’ the poet refers to?
  6. How does the sky look before the rain falls?

Poem 4 The Lake Isle of Innisfree

  1. What kind of place is Innisfree?
  2. The three things the poet wants to do when he would go back there.
  3. what he hears and sees there and its effect on him?
  4. What is the tone of the poem?
  5. Describe the person, the place or the thing brought vividly to life by the poet.
  6. Why does the poet want to go to Innisfree?
  7. How is the city life different from the life at the Lake of Innisfree?
  8. Briefly describe one major theme of the poem “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”

Poem-5 A Legend of the Northland

  1. Why are the people in the Northland not able to sleep throughout the night?
  2. What means of transportations are used in the Northland?
  3. What did Saint Peter ask the old lady for?
  4. What provoked St. Peter?
  5. How did St. Peter punish the old lady?
  6. What is the popular legend of the Northland? Do you think it is true?
  7. The poet doesn’t consider the legend to be true but wants to narrate the story. Why? Give one reason.
  8. Why was Saint Peter tired and hungry?
  9. Describe the landscape of the Northland as described in the poem.

Poem 6 No Men Are Foreign

  1. Whom does the poet refer to as ‘our brothers’ and why?
  2. How does the poet suggest that all people on earth are the same?
  3. What does the poet say about hating our brothers?
  4. When do we defile the earth?

Poem 8 On Killing a Tree

  1. How does a tree become strong?
  2. How does a tree grow to its full size? List the words suggestive of its life and activity.
  3. How does the tree heal itself?
  4. What are miniature boughs? What happens if they are left unchecked?

Poem 10 A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal

  1. What does the poet mean by ‘spirit’ and in what state was it?
  2. What caused the slumber of the poet?
  3. What changes did the slumber bring in the poet’s feelings?

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