UNIT 8 - OFF TO OUTER SPACE TOMMOROW - THREE MARKS QUESTIONS

 

UNIT 8 - OFF TO OUTER SPACE TOMMOROW - THREE MARKS QUESTIONS

1. “There won’t be any calendar; there won’t be any clock;

a. Who is off to outer space?

Ans: The speaker/the poet

b. Where is the speaker experiencing this?

Ans: In the Space.

c. Why will there be no calendars or clocks?

Ans: There is no concept of time while flying through space. So there are no calendars or clocks.

2. “With tea cups circling round me like the planets round the sun”

a. Where would the speaker experience this?

Ans: In space

b. Why does the speaker have the above feeling?

Ans: There is no gravitational force in space. So everything floats.

c. What does the figure of speech refer here?

Ans: Simile.

3. I’m off to outer space tomorrow morning?

a. Who is off to outer space?

Ans: The speaker/the poet

b. From which lesson/poem this extract is taken?

Ans: OFF TO OUTER SPACE TOMORROW MORNING

c. Why is this above line repeated several times in this poem?

Ans: The poet would be alone in a world of his own. To emphasis his loneliness this above line is repeated.