Extract Based Question
Read the following extract carefully and choose the correct option.
1 The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
(a) Where and how do you find the poet in the beginning of the poem?
(b) Where is the crow at that time and what does it do to the tree?
Short Answer (SA) Type Questions
2 Did the snow change the speaker's mood for better or for worse? Support your answer with examples from the
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poem.
How was the poets mood changed?
Long Answer (LA) Type Question
4 Do you think that judging other people with a prejudiced eye makes us impervious to any goodness in them?
Discuss in context of 'crow and hemlock tree' in this poem.
Answers
Answer:
first a answer_ The dust of snow
Answer:
The way a crow
Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued
(a) Where was the crow ?
(b) What did it shake on the poet ?
(c) What does the word, ‘rued’ mean ?
(d) What is the poet’s state of mind ?
Answer:
(a) The crow was on a hemlock tree.
(b) It shook dust of snow on the poet.
(c) The word ‘rued’ means held in regret.
(d) The poet was in a sad, depressive and hopeless mood that time.
(or)
(a)a crow
(b)dust of snow
(c)the poet
Question 2.
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
(a) Where did the crow sit ?
(b) We can say that the poet was …….
(c) How did the crow change the poet’s mood ?
(d) What fell off from a humlock tree ?
Answer:
(a) The crow sat on a branch of hemlock tree.
(b) …….. in a sad mood.
(c) The crow changed the poet’s mood by shaking down the dust of snow from a hemlock tree.
(d) Dust of snow fell from a hemlock tree.
Question 3.
Has given my heart (1×3=3)
A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.
1. (a) Of what change does the poet mention here ?
(b) Whose part of the day has been saved ?
(c) What is the rhyme scheme of the passage ?
(d) Who is the poet ?
OR
2. (a) What had given the poet ‘a change of mood’ ?
(b) What did the poet think of that day ?
(c) What did the crow do to the hemlock