Can anyone give extra questions on The Poem 'Wind' of grade 9 cbse?
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Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow in one or two lines.
(I)
Wind, come softly.
Don’t break the shutters of the windows.
Don’t scatter the papers.
Don’t throw down the books on the shelf.
The poem opens with the poet’s request to the wind. Addressing it directly, he wants the wind to blow gently so that the shutters of the windows are not broken and the papers are not blown about. The poet also urges the wind not to throw books down on the shelf.
(a) How does a violent wind disturb and damage things?
Ans: A violent wind breaks the window shutters and scatters the papers. It also throws down the books on the shelf.
(b) What request does the poet make to the wind?
Ans: The poet requests the wind to blow gently and not to cause any damage or destruction.
(c) Which poetic device has been used in these lines?
Ans: The poetic device used in these lines is ‘anaphora’ as the imperative ‘Don’t’ is repeated in three consecutive lines.
(d) What effect does this device create?
Ans: The imperative repetition of the word ‘Don’t’ at the beginning of three consecutive lines expresses the poet’s strong urge to the wind to be gentle and kind. It also creates a unique rhythm in the poem.
(II)
There, look what you did – you threw them all down.
You tore the pages of the books.
You brought rain again.
You’re very clever at poking fun at weaklings.
In these lines, the poet demonstrates the damage caused by the strong and fierce wind. it has thrown down all the books from the shelf and turn their pages.it causes the clouds to make rain. The poet believes that the wind, by destroying the weak things, seems to mock at their frailty and fragility.
(a) Whom does the poet address as ‘you’?
Ans: The poet addresses the wind that has been blowing fiercely as ‘you’.
(b) What does ‘them’ refer to?
Ans:‘Them’ refers to the books on the shelf.
(c) How have the pages of the books been torn?
Ans: The wind has blown so fiercely that the books placed on the shelf have fallen down and their pages have been torn when they fluttered because of the wind.
(d) How does the wind bring rain?
Ans: Wind accumulates and shakes up vapour-laden clouds to cause rain.
(e) How does the wind deal with the weaklings?
Ans: The wind harms and terrifies the weaklings with its fierce power and thus mocks their weakness.
(III)
Frail crumbling houses, crumbling doors, crumbling rafters,
crumbling wood, crumbling bodies, crumbling lives,
crumbling hearts-
the wind god winnows and crushes them all.
These lines describe the havoc caused by a fierce wind. It destroys the inanimate things like weak houses, doors, rafters, wood etc. Similarly, the difficulties of discouraging human beings. The poet regards the wind as a god who acts like a winnower and sorts and destroys everything that comes in his contract. This means that weak people and things are crushed by the destructive power of the wind.
(a) Why are the houses, doors, rafters etc. crumbling?
Ans: The houses, doors, rafters etc. are crumbling because they are weak and cannot stand the onslaught of the destructive wind.
(b) Explain the expression: “crumbling lives, crumbling hearts”.
Ans: Many lives are lost when wind wreaks havoc. The lives of the survivors are shattered too because their loved ones are dead and their homes and property are destroyed. They are left with no hope in life.
(c) Why has the wind been called ‘god’?
Ans: Wind has been called ‘god’ because, like ‘god’, he uses his power to remove and crush the undesirable, weak things.
(d) What does the wind god do?
Ans: The wind god, using its force winnows and crushes everything and everybody that comes in its contact.
(e) Which poetic device has been used in the first three lines?
Ans: The poetic device used in these lines is anaphora i.e. the repetition of certain words. The word ‘crumbling’ has been repeatedly used to emphasise the destruction caused by the wind.