Unit 2 - 2.4 The Pulley — English STD 10 — Question

The last (7th) stage of life sounds very sad and miserable. How can you make old age also cheerful and happy?

Why did God withhold the gift of 'Rest' from man?

From the extract provide evidence for the following:

Stages	Evidence (lines from the extract)
(a) the attempts by the peasants to help alleviate the mother's pain
(b) evil versus good

What does God want in return from man for the gifts He has bestowed on him?

Arrange the following reactions in their proper order as per the poem :
(1) His waistband split
(2) The grin grew broad
(3) Sleepless eye
(4) Was all upon the grin
(5) He broke into a roar
(6) He burst five buttons

Besides those given in the extract, what other gifts has God blessed mankind with above His other creations? Enlist them.

Which line suggests that the servant was totally out of control?

When does man generally turn to God?

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
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I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd
I stand and look at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins.
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God.
Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things.
Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago.
Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
So they show their relations to me and I accept them.
They bring me tokens of myself, they evince
them plainly in their possession I wonder where they get those tokens.
Did I pass that way huge times ago and negligently drop them?

What could have happened to the tokens of the poet's self?