Question

8. Read and understand the following poem Paper Boats and write its
paraphrase in your own simple language. (You may take the help of dictionary
or internet.) The first line is done for you.
(Day after day, one after another, I sail paper boats on the stream of flowing water.)
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Paper Boats
Day by day I float my paper boats, one by one on the running
stream.
In big black letters I write my name on them and the name of the
village where I live.
I hope that someone in some strange land will find them and know
who I am.
I load my little boats with shiuli flower from our garden, and hope
that these blooms of the dawn will be carried safely to land in the
night
I launch my paper boats and look up into the sky and see the
little clouds setting their white bulging sails.
I know not what playmate of mine in the sky sends them down
the air to race with my boats !
When night comes I bury my face in my arms and dream that my
paper boats float on and on under the midnight stars.
The fairies of sleep are sailing in them, and the lading is their
baskets full of dreams.
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Answer 1

Answer:

Day after day, one after another, I sail paper boats on the stream of flowing water.

I sign my name and the name of the village where I reside in large black characters on them.

I hope they will be discovered and recognized by someone in a foreign country who will get to know me.

Using shiuli flowers from our yard, I fill my small boats and pray that these dawn blossoms will be transported safely to land in the night

My paper boats are launched, and I glance up to the sky to observe the little clouds that are raising their white sails that bulge.

I have no idea who of my playmates from the sky sends them down to race my boats!

I bury my face in my arms at night and imagine that my paper boats continue to float under the star-filled skies at midnight.

I imagine that the sleep fairies are sailing in them with dream-filled baskets.

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