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Q 2. Read the passage and answer the questions given below: (10)

1. There is a clear dichotomy between Jayashankar Prasad’s daily life and the one that found

expression in his literature. In his literary formulations, Prasad advocated an escape- from-

personality ideal and categorically stated: “An artist‟s art, and not his person, is the touchstone to

assess his work . . . it is only after losing his personality that he emerges in his art as an artist”.

2. In Prasad‟s works – his poems, short stories, novels, dramas etc. – what emerges is life as shaped in

the writer‟s inner self by his emotions, fancies, dreams, reveries . . . His writings are a record not of

outer reality, but of the artist‟s inner world. As such, of a proper appreciation and understanding of

his works more emphasis needs to be placed on the working of his mind, than the events of his day-

to-day life.

3. Prasad was born in a renowne

Answer 1

A man’s favorite donkey falls into a deep precipice. He can’t pull it out no matter how hard he tries. He therefore decides to bury it alive.

Soil is poured onto the donkey from above. The donkey feels the load, shakes it off, and steps on it. More soil is poured.

It shakes it off and steps up. The more the load was poured, the higher it rose. By noon, the donkey was grazing in green pastures.

After much shaking off (of problems) And stepping up (learning from them), One will graze in GREEN PASTURES.