Unit 4 - 4.4 The Height of the Ridiculous — English STD 10 — Question

And such too is the grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead: All lovely tales that we have heard or read: An endless fountain of immortal drink Pouring unto us from the heaven's brink. Nor do we merely feel these essences For one short hour; no, even as the trees That whisper round a temple become soon Dear as the temple's self, so does the moon, The passion poesy, glories infinite,
Haunt us till they become a cheering light Unto our souls, and bound to us so fast.
That, whether there be shine, or gloom o'ercast They always must be with us, or we die.

List the things which express sorrow from the extract:

I remember the night my mother
was stung by a scorpion. Ten hours
of steady rain had driven him
to crawl beneath a sack of rice.
Parting with his poison - flash
of diabolic tail in the dark room-
he risked the rain again
The peasants came like swarms of flies
and buzzed the name of God a hundred times
to paralyse the Evil One.
With candles and with lanterns
throwing glant scorpion shadows
on the mud-baked walls
They searched for him : he was not found.
they clicked their tongues.
With every movement that the scorpion made his poison
moved in Mother's blood, they said.

After reading the extract, complete the following table. What happens?

Lines	What is happening
1-17

Describe the outcome of this experience on the poet.

With the help of the poem, find the differences between animals and human beings:

What should the words we speak reflect?

Explain: how the memory of a beautiful visual scene becomes a joy forever.

how the world is broken into fragments?

Explain :
(a) the contrast between the poet and his servant.
(b) the poet's reaction when he read the lines.

Find out the expression from the extract that indicates funny moments:

After reading the extract, complete the following table. What happens?

Lines	What is happening
18-33