A. Answer the following questions.
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What effect has the hard work had on the blacksmith?
2.
What do the children enjoy while coming back from school?
3. How does the blacksmith spend his Sundays?
4. How does his daughter sing? What does it remind him of?
5. What lesson does the blacksmith teach us?
Answers
Answer: Q1) The Blacksmith is a man we should all aspire to be. He understands that he is owed nothing simply for existing; his future is 100% dependent on himself and nobody else. Thus, he pushes himself to be better, going to bed proud each night, knowing that he’s done the best that he possibly can to create a good life.
Week in, week out, from morn till night,
You can hear his bellows blow;
You can hear him swing his heavy sledge,
With measured beat and slow.
The Blacksmith understands there will be periods of feast and famine, times of triumph and times of sorrow, days where everything goes right and days where everything goes wrong. He doesn’t get overly excited when things go right, and he doesn’t pass the blame or make excuses when things go wrong. He knows that success doesn’t happen overnight, but comes from constant improvement, day after day, for weeks, months, and years at a time.
Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing,
Onward through life he goes;
Each morning sees some task begin,
Each evening sees it close;
Something attempted, something done,
Has earned a night’s repose.
Every morning, the Blacksmith sets out to begin a new task, and by the end of the day gets it completed. The Blacksmith understands the importance of getting things done. He removes all distractions, picks up his hammer, and gets to work! Once he’s completed his tasks for the day, he goes home to spend time with his friends and family, leaving the day’s toils and worries behind to focus on quality time with his loved ones. He’s found a work-life balance that makes him happy.
Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend,
For the lesson thou hast taught!
Thus at the flaming forge of life
Our fortunes must be wrought;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
Each burning deed and thought.
The Blacksmith understands that he can forge his own future, by any method he deems fit. A life worth living will require thousands of hammer swings, but he is in full control of how that hammer is swung.
Q2) And children coming home from school Look in at the open door; They love to see the flaming forge And hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing floor.
Q3) The blacksmith produced objects such as gates, grilles, railings, light fixtures, furniture, sculpture, tools, agricultural implements, decorative and religious items, cooking utensils and weapons. The place where a blacksmith works is called variously a smithy, a forge or a blacksmith's shop.
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Q5) The "worthy friend" in the poem is the village blacksmith. The speaker has learned important life lessons from him. First, he has learned the value of hard work.
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