High adventureAnd bright dream-Maps are mightierThan they seem: read the stanza. How are high adventure and bright dream related to maps
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1. Read the first stanza. How are ‘high adventure and bright dream’ related to maps?
ANS- Maps are storehouse of knowledge. They may look like small pieces of paper but contain a lot of information for people who dream of scaling the mountains or exploring the world.
2. What are some of the things that maps bring to the speaker’s mind?
ANS- Ships, strange bazars, floating chunks of ice, breezy lands etc., are some of the things that maps bring to the speaker’s mind.
3. What are the different kinds of maps that the speaker mentions?
ANS- Train maps, maps of wind, weather, roads etc. are the different types of maps which the speaker mentions in the poem.
4. Maps are really/ magic wands/ for home staying/ vagabonds!
(a) Why have maps been called magic wands?
ANS- Maps are magic wands as they can transport you to any place of your choice instantly.
(b) How can someone be home-staying and vagabond at the same time?
ANS- Vagabond is a person who moves from one place to another without any purpose. Hence a person sitting at home cantransport himself to any kind of land whenever he wishes and come back.
Q3. Appreciating the poem
1. Maps are mightier/ Than they seem
(a) The line suggests that maps do not seem very mighty at first. Why should that be?
ANS- A map may look like a small piece of page but it is in fact a store house of knowledge. It imbibes immense knowledge in it.
(b) How does the entire poem argue that maps are in fact, not only important but also magical?
ANS- Maps are magical as they can transport one to any land one wishes to.
2. Ships, markets, ice and aeroplanes – the poem mentions these things in such a way that all of them sound attractive. How does it do that?
ANS- the poet fires the reader’s imagination by making them visualize Ships navigating to unknown lands following the direction given by the guiding stars. Markets are described as strange meaning that they are so far not known to anyone. He mentions that there are sheets of ice floating all around. The planes are also air borne to new destinations. The reader can visualize all these images mentioned by the poet...
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