Question

Q.5. Read the extract and answer the given question :
OlFather and Mother, If buds are nipid,
And blossoms blown away,
And if the tender plants are strip'd
of their joy in the springing day,
By sorrow and cares dismay,
How shall the summer arise In Joy.
Or the summer fruits appear?

(a) Who are these lines addresses to?
(b) What happens if the tender plants are stripped?
(e) What is the rhyming word of 'way'?​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. The joy of a summer morning is to watch the birds and the trees from close quarters.

2. The child hates to go to school in a summer morning.

3. The ‘cruel eye’ of the unfeeling teacher is being referred to here.

4. The child shies at school.

III. Ah ! then at times I drooping sit,

And spend many an anxious hour.

Nor in my book can I take delight,

Nor sit in learning’s bower,

Worn thro’ with the dreary shower.