(English Medium) ICSE Class 10 - CISCE Question Bank Solutions for English 2 (Literature in English)

What message is relevant to the present age in the poem?

Give two examples of alliteration from the poem.

What does the tree symbolise in the poem?

Do you consider the title apt?

Does the poet use the literary devices in the poem?

Why does the poet use repletion in the poem?

How has the poet described a tree earlier in the poem?

What social and ecological benefits of planting a tree does the poet refer to?

In what sense is the tree ‘the harvest of a coming age’?

How does a tree planter do civic good?

Who holds ‘all the growth of our land’? Which land has the poet in mind?

Do you agree with the poet that a nation’s growth depends upon the wealth of trees? Why/why not?

In what way is the poet relevant to our times?

How does figurative language assist in conveying the theme and purpose of the poem?

Explain how diction is important in the poem with the help of an example.

Explain the importance of rythm in the poem.

Can we say that the poet has succeeded in conveying his point? How?

What is the tone of the poem?

What is universal about the theme – that is, what can we all learn from the poem?

What point is the author trying to make?