Question

13. Answer any two of the following questions in 30-40 words. (2x2=4)
(i) What happened when Mr. Crocker- Harris cracked one of his classical jokes?
(ii) In ‘We’ are not afraid to Die……. If we can All be together, What trait of character of the narrator is revealed by his acceptance of approaching death?
(iii) According to Markus Natten, when does a child become an adult in the the poem ‘Childhood’?
(iv) Justify the title “The voice of the Rain’?

Answer 1

Answer:

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Explanation:

1) ans- One day Mr. Crocker-Harris made one of his classical jokes. Nobody understood and hence nobody laughed. ... Crocker-Harris said that he was impressed by the progress made by Taplow what others in his form (class) could not and then asked Taplow to explain to the whole class what he had understood.

4) ans - Using the imaginative conversation between him and rain, he is trying to point out that the rain does have a voice and even compares it with a song. The poet sees the rain as an entity with a voice which is indispensable for the survival of the earth. Therefore, the title of the poem is justly chosen by the poet