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Questions with Answers — Meeting at Night by Robert Browning

Meeting at Night by Robert Browning: Descriptive types Questions with Answers — : Class-XI (WBCHSE) ★★★★ Question : Evaluate “Meeting at Night” — as a love poem. Ans : Browning is a master artist of love-poem and his Meeting at Night is purely a love poem. This poem describes a lover’s tale. The lover is keen on meeting his beloved. So the lover sets out on a lonely and tedious journey with many apprehensions to meet his ladylove secretly. The ladylove lives in a farmhouse and so the lover crosses the beach and three fields, in order to reach the farmhouse. However the excitement of this bold adventure inspires him to overcome all the obstacles of the way. After reaches his destination, he taps at the windowpane, then the ladylove lights a match which signifies the spurt of passion in their hearts. Their hearts beat against each other as they get locked in the supreme moment of perfect union in love and the union of their hearts makes the words useless.  Love transcends all ...

Textual Grammar — The Eyes Have It, Class -XII

Textual Grammar Voice Changes: 1. But her next question removed my doubts. Ans: But my doubts were removed by her next question. 2. I found the window. Ans: The window was found by me. 3. Few girls can resist flattery. Ans: Flattery can be resisted by few girls. 4. I did not see you. Ans: You were not seen by me. 5. Do you see any animals ? Ans: Are any animals seen by you. 6. Then I made a mistake. Ans: Then a mistake was made by me. 7. My aunt is meeting me there. Ans: I will be met there by my aunt. 8. She thought me a romantic fool. Ans: I was thought to be a romantic fool by her. 9. She would forget our brief encounter. Ans: Our brief encounter would be forgotten by her. 10. The carriage wheels changed their sound and rhythm. Ans: Their sound and rhythm were changed by the carriage wheels. 11. I asked the girl if she was going all the way to Dehra. Ans: The girl was asked by me if she was going all the way to Dehra. 12. But...

Clouds by Intizar Hussain | solved textual activities

Clouds Intizar Hussain Class - VIII |Lesson - 2|WBBSE Text Activity Activity – 1 Rearrange the following sentences in the order and put the numbers in the given boxes: (1) He saw a grass-cutter coming from the other direction . [4] (2) The grass-cutter was surprised. [6] (3) He reached the old mud hut. [2] (4) He wandered in search of the clouds. [1] (5) He asked the grass-cutter if he had noticed the clouds. [5] (6) He turned onto the dirt track. [3] Activity – 2 Complete the following sentences with the information from the text: (a) The grass-cutter had a bundle of freshly cut grass balanced on his head. (b) He was disappointed to see that the grass-cutter was still mystified. (c) The farmer could not make sense about the question of clouds. (d) He was asking for the clouds like a man who has lost a child and asks travellers if they have seen a child wandering. Activity – 3 Answer the following question: “But no one could give him a satisfactory answer” — Why do ...

The poetry of earth |John Keats| Question with Answer

  The Poetry of Earth John Keats Text The poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run  From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead; That is the Grasshopper' — he takes the lead In summer luxury, — he has never done With his delights; for when tired out with fun He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed. The poetry of earth is ceasing never: On a lone winter evening, when the frost He wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills The Cricket’s song, in warmth increasing ever, And seems to one in drowsiness half lost, The Grasshopper’s among some grassy hills. ★★ Important Descriptive types Questions with Answers: Question: Substance of the poem “The Poetry of the Earth.” Ans : In this John Keats describes that the natural music of the earth never ceases to play through the cycle of seasons. He uses the Petrarchan form of the sonnet to depict the songs of the Grasshopper and the Cricket as the nat...

Descriptive Questions with Answers from the play The Proposal | Class - XII

Descriptive type Questions with Answers from “The Proposal” — by Anton Chekhov : Class – XII (WBBSE) ★★★ Question : Why did Lomov think about taking a decision about getting married ? Ans : In the play, ‘The Proposal’ Lomov appears as an interesting character. He wanted to marry Chubukov’s daughter Natalya Stepanovna. In the play Lomov described his reasons which forced him to take the decision of marriage. He was thirty five years old. According to him it was a critical age and thought that further waiting might lead in surpassing the ideal age for getting marriage. Besides that he wanted to lead a quiet and regular life because he thought himself to be a weak man suffering from numerous diseases. So, he needed to be looked after by somebody. In addition to that, Lomov found an ideal wife in Natalya whom he thought as an good looking, excellent and well-educated house keeper. Therefore all these reasons encouraged Lomov to get married. Question : “Why are you so formal in your get-...