(1) What does deliberate repetition of lines
"O moon, give me moonlight, basketful of
moonlight signify? (या कवितेतील ओळींची मुद्दामच
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Answer:
1. Complete the following sentence with the help of the poem.
(a) The child wants to sow moons of light from the city to his village.
(b) According to the child, the route of his village is tough and full of snakes and scorpions
(c) The child wants a basketful of moonlight on loan.
(d) The child wants to light the dark route so that his father comes early.
2. Write down the describing words used for the following nouns.
small moons
dark route
whole village (my village- here my is used as a demonstrative adjective)
early morning
3. The child in the poem wants to solve the problems in his village. How can the
child solve them with the following wishes? Answer in your notebook.
(a) Give me moonlight, basketful or two baskets full, with seeds of moonlight.
Answer - The child really wants to enlight the roads for the villagers and his father. The child's imagination goes everywhere, and he gets to moonlight as his solution with which he can light the road by sowing moonseeds on both the sides of the road.
(b) I want to light the dark route so that my father returns early.
Answer - The child loves and cares his father a lot he longs for his company but not getting it in the evening, so he wants to light the dark path which is dangerous too, which makes him think about the safety of father as well as other villagers.
4. Pick out and write the lines from the poem that prove the following.
(a) Father reaches home late, after dark............
(b) Eager to hear fairy tales from his father............
(c) Remove darkness and bring light among the darker paths..............
Answer-
(a) Father reaches home is home late after dark.
I want to light the dark route
so that my father returns early.
(b) Eager to hear fairy tales from his father
I too want to hear fairy tales
and stories from him.
(c) Remove darkness and bring light among the darker path
I want to light the dark route
5. Write as many as words you can using full as a suffix
basketful, powerful, bucketful,
mouthful, handful, helpful,
painful, tearful, thoughtful,
harmful, shameful, beautiful,
useful, rightful, bountiful,
graceful, spoonful, boastful,
awful disgraceful
6. Pick out the examples of alliteration and repetition from the poem.
Following lines contain alliteration
basketful or two baskets full,
give me moonlight,
It becomes dark on its way back
snakes and scorpions.
Neither bus nor cart piles.
small, small moons of light.
Following lines contain Repetition
small, small moons of light.
7. Write an appreciation of the poem.
Appreciation of the poem:
Title
Basketful of Moonlight.
Poet
Sunil Sharma
Rhyme scheme
It is a free verse poem;
there is no rhyme scheme in this poem.
Favourite line
I too want to hear fairy tales
and stories from him.
The eager child wants to tell the difficulties faced by the people of his village and to pass quality time with his father as any other child would like to have.
Theme/
central idea
The child, who loves his father a lot and longs for his company. He wants to have a lot of time with his father, but due to the darkness at night he is not getting it. So he imagines that he could illuminate the route at night with the small moon by sowing the seeds of the moon or moonlight to make his father’s travel easy, safe and swift.
Figures of speech
Alliteration –
eg. 1 basketful or two baskets full
2 snakes and scorpions.
Repetition -
small, small moons of light.
(repetition of the same word)
Antithesis -
I want to light the dark route
(two opposite ideas came together)
Tautology -
I too want to hear fairy tales
and stories from him. (but this figure of speech is not included in the syllabus )
Special features-
Type of the poem, language,
style, tone,
Implied meaning etc
This poem is an example of free verse.
The language of the poem is very simple and easy which focuses the problems and difficulties of village folk as well as the parent-children relation which exactly matches today’s parents-children relation, especially in the city.the poem also turn the readers' attention towards some of the basic problems in the villages.
Why I like the poem
I like this poem because the language of this poem is v