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Read the following stanza. There is only one thing That I love, And that is the sky Far above, There is plenty of room In the blue For castles of clouds And me, too!Now answer the following questions : a) Who does ‘I’ here refer to? b) What is the only thing the speaker loves? c) Why does he like sky? d) “In the blue” – What does the word ‘blue’ here mean? e) What castles are there in the sky? f) “And me too’ – Where does the speaker want to be? g) Why does the speaker want himself to be in castles of clouds? h) What is the plenty of room there in the sky for? i) Which word in the above stanza means “large strong buildings”?j) Pick out the rhyming words from the stanza |
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Answer» a) ‘I’ here refers to the town child. b) The only thing the speaker (the town child) loves in the town is the sky. c) Because in the sky there is a lot of room and there are no buildings and vehicles, noise and smoke in the sky. d) The word ‘blue’ here means the ‘sky’. e) In the sky there are castles of clouds. f) The speaker wants to be in the sky. g) Because in the castles of clouds there is no smoke and noise and there is a lot of open place in the sky. In the sky he can be away from pollution and helter skelter of the town. h) In the sky there is a lot of room for the castles of clouds. i) Castles j) love … above; blue – too. |
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