From a Railway Carriage Questions and answers
Question 1.
Does the train move through a village or city? Justify your answer.
Answer:
The train moves through a village. We can see the bridges, houses, hedges, ditches, meadows, horses, cattle, etc. which are the common scenes of a village
Question 2.
What are the expressions used by the poet to show the amaz¬ing speed of the train?
Answer:
a. faster than fairies faster than witches.
b. Fly as thick as driving rain.
c. Each a glimpse and gone forever.
Question 3.
How does the poet bring out the locomotive rhythm in the poem?
Answer:
The words like fast, fairies, witches, ditches have a repetition of particular sounds which give the sound of a moving train. They also give the feeling of a train journey
Textbook Activities
Let’s revisit
Answer the following questions by selecting appropriate options.
From a Railway Carriage Question 1.
What is the poem about?
Answer:
d. A fast-moving train and the people, places and things seen from it.
2.
What was the aim of the poet while writing the poem ‘From A Railway Carriage’?
Answer:
c. To tell readers about his experience on a train.
3.
Read the line from the poem. ‘Here is a beggar who stands and gazes’. Which word has almost the same meaning as gazes?
Answer:
b. looks
Question answer on from a Railway Carriage Question 4.
What is similar about the words Switches’ and ‘ditches’?
Answer:
c. Both are at the end of a line and rhyme with each other.
From a Railway Carriage
Poem Question answer Question 5.
How do the troops resemble the train?
Answer:
a. They charge along
Question 6.
In what ways are the child and the tramp different?
Answer:
b. The child is clambering and scra¬mbling and the tramp is standing and gazing.
Question 7.
What are the last two things seen from the railway Carriage
Answer:
d. A mill and a river
Question 8.
In what order are the people and things seen from the railway carriage?
Answer:
c. A child, a beggar, a cart, a mill, and a river.
Question 10.
Read the last line of the poem. ‘Each a glimpse and gone forever!’ What does the poet mean by this line?
Answer:
b. You only get a quick look at something as you pass by, never to see it again.
Question 11.
In the poem, certain words and clusters of letters (‘-es’) are repeated. Can you list out the repeated words and the truster of letters from the poem?
Do you think repetition enhances the musical quality of poem?
Answer:
a.Fairies, witches, houses, hedges, ditches, troops, meadows, horses, sights, stations, clambers, scrambles, brambles, stands, gazes, daisies. The repeated sounds in the poem give a locomotive rhythm. It makes the poem more musical
Activity 4
Alliteration
Repetition of initial consonant sound of words in a line
Example..
Glimpse and gone
Lumbing load
Runaway in the road
Rhyme scheme
First stanza
aabbccdd
Rhyme scheme
First stanza
aabbccdd
Second stanza
aabbccdd
Images
Eyes...visual images
Example... train
Ear...auditory
Example..bird's song
Touch... tactile
Example...smooth wall
Smell... olfactory
Example.preparing food
Taste.. gustatory
Example:
Food is so delicious
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