POETRY 4 - THE SONG OF INDIA - 2MARKS

1. What , according to the poet are the signs of the development of modern nation?

Ans: Dams, steel mills. The ship building yards, modern technology and atomic energy.

2. What is the contribution of seers and prophets, according to the poet?

Ans: Seers and prophets have shaped the people and the society. Their knowledge and experience are the guiding forces for the common people.

3. Why is the poet „querulous‟? what does he want to do?

Ans: The poet is querulous because the motherland did not wish to listen a song about physical features, temples, dams and lakes, technology of the nation. The poet wants to sing a song that is pure and which will remain in memory forever.

4. What are the epics? Why does the poet call the temples as „epics‟ in stone?

Ans: Epics are the long narrative poems or stories narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the past history of nation. Such pictures have been carved on the walls of the temples. So the poet calls the temples the’ Epic stones’.

5. What do the night, the sun god and the clear down represent?

Ans: The night represents all sorrows and worries. The Sun God represents cancelling all sorrow and the clear dawn shows the bright future.

6. How does the poet describe the mother‟s nager? Name the figure of speech?

Ans: The poet describes the mother’s anger as ‘ that beat into my ears like gong’ The figure of speech employed here is ‘simile’.

7. How is the poet answered ? describe the vision.

Ans: The poet was answered by a wonderful vision. In the vision he saw motherland sitting on the waves to write the ‘ Book of Marrow’. She foresaw a new ‘ destiny’, a new bright future, like the bright Sun God, who would wipe out sorrow of the people. The new future will arrive like a ‘clear dawn’ in which sorrows and worries will run away like a nightmare. The sun beam will save the people like safer hand.

8. What does the motherland writing „ The Book of Marrow‟ signify?

Ans: It signifies the motherland creating the future or destiny of the nation.

9. Explain the line, „A song bathed in the stainless blue unvapouring in the void‟.

Ans: These lines were sung by the poet at the last stanza which means pure and significant. It was bathed in the melodious voice that does not disappear into nothingness.

10. What is the picture of India that you get in the stanza 7 of the poem?

Ans: The poet describes the snow covered peaks of the Himalayas. And three oceans covering the southern part of India.