Class 10 English Poem 4 How to Tell Wild Animals Questions and answers
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Question 1:
Does ‘dying’
really rhyme with ‘lion’? Can you say it in such a way
that it does?
Answer:
No,
‘dying’ does not rhyme with
‘lion’. It is for this reason that the poet has used
‘dyin’ so that when we pronounce it, it rhymes with
‘lion’.
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Question 2:
How does the poet
suggest that you identify the lion and the tiger? When can you do so,
according to him?
Answer:
The
poet suggests that if a large and tawny beast in the jungle in the
east advances towards us, then it is an Asian lion. We can identify
it when it roars at us while we are dying
with fear. When while roaming we come across a wild beast that is
yellow in colour with black stripes, it is a Bengal tiger. We can
identify it when it eats us.
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Question 3:
Do you think the words
‘lept’ and ‘lep’ in the third stanza are
spelt correctly? Why does the poet spell them like this?
Answer:
No,
the words ‘lept’ and ‘lep’ are spelt
incorrectly. Their correct spellings are ‘leapt’ and
‘leap’ respectively. The poet has spelled them like this
in order to maintain the rhythm of the
poem. When spelled this way, they rhyme with the first part of
‘leopard’, thus giving emphasis to ‘leopard’
in each line.
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Question 5:
Look at the line “A
novice might nonplus”. How would you write this ‘correctly’?
Why is the poet’s ‘incorrect’ line better in the
poem?
Answer:
The
line “A novice might nonplus” can be correctly written as
“A novice might be nonplussed”. The poet’s
incorrect line is better in the poem as it maintains the rhyme scheme
of the poem. By writing it incorrectly, ‘nonplus’ rhymes
with ‘thus’.
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