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What is the first stage of a human’s life?

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The first stage of human life is “infant”. The babe in the nurse’s arms pukes and mewls.

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पाठ 3.2: All the World’s a Stage - Exercise [पृष्ठ ९२]

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पाठ 3.2 All the World’s a Stage
Exercise | Q 2. c) | पृष्ठ ९२

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

What thoughts come to your mind when you think about a castle? Add your ideas to the list

moat, huge buildings, soldiers, weapons ______,______.


Who is the narrator in the poem?


Who was the real enemy?


Identify the figure of speech used in the following line.

Oh then our maze of tunneled stone


Identify the figure of speech used in the following line.

How can this shameful tale be told?


Why is the casuarina tree dear to poet’s heart?


Name the bird that sings in the poet’s garden.


To whom does Toru Dutt want to consecrate the tree’s memory?


The casuarina tree will be remembered forever. Why?


Identify the figure of speech used in each of the extract given below and write down the answer in the space given below. 

“ A creeper climbs, in whose embraces bound

No other tree could live. But gallantly

The giant wears the scarf, and flowers are hung......”


Describe the various stages of a man’s life picturised in the poem “All the World’s a stage."


What does he think of the people of his kingdom?


‘As tho’ to breathe were life!’ – From the given line what do you understand of Ulysses’ attitude to life?


How would Telemachus transform the subjects?


‘He works his work, I mine’ – How is the work distinguished?


What could be the possible outcomes of their travel?


Identify the figure of speech employed in the following line.

And drunk delight of battle with my peers;


Read the set of line from the poem and answer the question that follow.

Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough

Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades

For ever and for ever when I move

  1. What is experience compared to?
  2. How do the lines convey that the experience is endless?

Read the set of line from the poem and answer the question that follow.

……for my purpose holds

To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths

Of all the western stars, until I die.

  1. What was Ulysses’ purpose in life?
  2. How long would his venture last?

Read the set of line from the poem and answer the question that follow.

One equal temper of heroic hearts,

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

  1. Though made weak by time and fate, the hearts are heroic. Explain.
  2. Pick out the words in alliteration in the above lines.

Explain with reference to the context the following line.

How dull it is to pause, to make an end,

To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!


Explain with reference to the context the following line.

He works his work, I mine.


The poet says

‘Without rich wanting nothing arrives’ but he condemns ‘the quest of lucre beyond a few easy needs.’ Analyse the difference and write.


Explain the following line with reference to the context.

He will be lonely enough

to have time for the work


Explain how the poet guides his son who is at the threshold of manhood, to face the challenges of life.


What does the phrase ‘full galloping’ suggest?


What was Napoleon’s reaction on hearing the news of victory?


Explain the following line with reference to the context.

Then off there flung in smiling joy, And held himself erect


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