Question

Answer the following in 30-40 words : (a) What do time and war do to the monuments ? (b) In what way is the poet stronger than powerful rulers ? (c) Do you agree with the frog's assessment that the nightingale is a brainless bird ? (d) The postmaster says to Ali, 'What a pest you are brother ?' Do you agree with the statement ?
Give reasons.

Answer 1

(a)     Value Points : Monuments are not permanent, not eternal with the passage of time they crumble in the event of a
war, gunshots demolish them.                                                                    

Detailed Answer :

The monuments erected by kings and princes are not permanent or eternal. They get destroyed or crumbled in the event of a war as gunshots demolish them. They are discoloured or broken by the passage of time. Both time and war demolish them and they are forgotten by people.

The creation of powerful rulers, i.e., statues and monuments are destroyed by time but the poet is more powerful than these rulers because time cannot destroy his creation, i.e., his poetry

Value Points :

The nightingale is not a brainless bird-highly talented; her only fault is that she is trusting and unsuspecting and all such beings are credulous; her chief shortcoming is credulity.

Detailed Answer :

The nightingale is not a brainless bird She is a highly talented bird who is not aware of her talent Her only fault is that she is trusting and unsuspecting. She is misled by the evil frog who only wishes her to ruin. Her chief shortcoming is credulity.

(d) All is not a pest. Though All comes daily to the post-office; he waits there patiently without disturbing anyone. Hope lures him to the door whenever the post-office employees jokingly call out his name. But he does not rebuke them. He silently goes and sits on his seat without bothering or troubling anyone