Science (English Medium) Class 12 - CBSE Question Bank Solutions for English Elective - NCERT

Discuss the following in pairs or in small groups

The way a child looks at the world is very different from that of an adult.

Discuss the following in pairs or in small groups

There is always a gap between what we really are and what we wish to appear to be to others.

Comment on the significance of the first sentence of the story to its theme.

Would you describe the author’s portrayal of Tao Ying’s character in the story as sympathetic, critical, or realistic?

Identify the episodes that bring out the ambivalent attitude to ethics commonly seen in human life?

How effectively does the narrative technique adopted in this story illustrate ‘unity of thought’?

How do the shadows before noon differ from the shadows afternoon? What do the two kinds of shadow represent?

Love is described as light. What makes the poet talk about shadows?

Comment on the use of the image of the shadows for the idea that the poet wants to convey.

The poet seems to be addressing his beloved in the poem. What is the message he wishes to convey to her?

Instead of ‘A Lecture Upon Love’ the poet calls the poem ‘A Lecture Upon the Shadow’. What is the effect that this has on our reading of the poem?

Examples from other poems from this period:

• How neatly doe we give one onely name
• To parents issue and the sunnes bright starre!

Why has the poet pitted the flight of Time against the ‘lazy leaden-stepping hours’ and ‘the heavy Plummets pace’?

What are the things associated with the temporal and what is associated with the eternal?

What guides human souls towards divinity? Who is the final winner in the race against Time?

How are these two matched poems related to each other in content? How is the human being depicted in the Song of Innocence and how is he/she depicted in the Song of Experience? Do we find both aspects working in an average human being?

How would you explain the lines

For Mercy has a human heart,

Pity a human face,

And Love, the human form divine,

And Peace, the human dress.

Find out where the river Alph is.

Does the poem have a real geographical location? How does the poet mix up the real and the imaginary to give a sense of the surreal?

Pick out

contrasting images that are juxtaposed throughout the poem.