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Who Holds ‘All the Growth of Our Land’? Which Land Has the Poet in Mind? - English 2 (Literature in English)

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प्रश्न

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

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उत्तर

The poet might be referring to America but he is also talking with reference to the entire earth as our land or the land of all mankind.

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पाठ 1.01: The Heart of the Tree - Extra Questions

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

Explain:
‘Some are aglow with the bloom that cleaves
To the limpid glory of new born leaves.’


Thus I entered, and thus I go!
In triumphs, people have dropped down dead,
"Paid by the world, what dost thou owe
Me?"....God might question; now instead,
'Tis God shall repay: I am safer so.

Read the above lines and answer the question that follow.

Explain with reference to the context.


Look at these sentences.

  • The tree was older than Grandfather.
  • Grandfather was sixty-five years old. How old was the tree? Can you guess?

How old was the tree? Can you guess?

  • The tree was as old as Dehra Dun itself.

Suppose Dehra Dun is 300 years old. How old is the tree?

When two things are the same in some way, we use as … as. Here is another set of examples.

  • Mr Sinha is 160 centimetres tall.
  • Mr Gupta is 180 centimetres tall.
  • Mrs Gupta is 160 centimetres tall.

Mrs Gupta is as tall as Mr Sinha.

Use the words in the box to speak about the people and the things below, using as … as or er than

tall – taller cold – colder hot – hotter
strong – stronger short – shorter  

(Notice that in the word ‘hot’, the letter ‘t’ is doubled when -er is added.)

1. Heights

_______________________________

2. Weight Lifters

_________________________________

3. City Temperatures

______________________________

4. Lengths

_______________________________

5. City Temperatures

_______________________________


Find out from your grandparents or parents the names of vegetables and fruits they had eaten in their childhood and mention how the vegetables and fruits are different from the one's today.

Name of the vegetable or fruit Shape Colour Taste
1.      
2.      
3.      

The poet has described two different shades of human feelings by using imagery of various forces of Nature in the poem. Pick out the terms or phrases that describe them. Complete the table given below. One is done for you.

Nature Feelings
Faded forests Sad/gloomy
   
   

Prepare and present a speech on ‘My Favourite Place’.
Use the following points. 

  • Name of the place
  • Its special features
  • The reason why you like it

Prepare a set of questions to interview-

a person who has just returned from a trek in the woods


Find one word from the story that means

to think w ______.


Alice follows the strange rabbit because she wants to know a number of things. Re-arrange the words to make the questions that Alice has in her mind, and put a question mark (?).

going he is where


Why according to Maya Angelou, does the caged bird sing?


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