Answer the following questions.
1. What are the times, according to the poet, when one finds oneself alienated?
2. Which line of the poem deals with the quality of patience?
3. Why do knaves twist the truth?
4. How should you go ahead even after you have lost everything?
5.What virtues does father want his son to inculcate?
Answers
ans2. The appropriate line in the poem is "If you can wait and not be tired by waiting." Patience is clearly a virtue to the old man as he proceeds to give his son some fatherly advice.
ans3 When Rudyard Kipling says, "If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools," he means that sometimes, even when you speak the truth, others will change your words to hurt others or convince others of untrue things.
ans4. If you have the strength to look back at your pain and your loss, you have the power to do anything.
1) 5 Strategies to Start Over After You've Lost Everything. ...
2) Reinvent yourself (Focus on your strengths) ...
3) Don't keep it all in your head (Write it out) ...
4) Protect your time (Script your day)
ans5. I don't know
