Question

Q.2 Read the poem extract carefully and answer the questions given below:

Like a huge Python winding round and round

The rugged trunk indented deep with scars

Up to its very summit near the stars

A creeper climbs in whose embraces bound

No other tree could live. But gallantly

The giant wears the scarf and flowers are hung

In crimson clusters all the boughs among

Questions:-

(i) What do you understand by Python in these lines? 2

(ii) Which process is known as wearing a scarf mentioned in the lines? 2

(iii) Find the word from the stanza opposite of “cowardly”​

Answer 1

1. Python winds itself round the trunk..... The rugged trunk indented deep with scars.
2. giant wears the scarf.... Flowers are hung..In crimson clusters all the boughs
3. Gallantly