Question

Q1. Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow-

And he said, “You are far too selfish

To dwell in a human form,

To have both food and shelter,

And fire to keep you warm.

Now, you shall build as the birds do,

And shall get your scanty food

By boring, and boring and boring,

All day in the hard, dry wood.”

(a) Who is ‘he’ in the above stanza?

(b) What did he say to the woman?

(c) Find the word in the stanza which means ‘very little’?

(d) Why did he put a curse on the woman?​

Answer 1

Answer:

he is a saint I think he said to women he is too selfish and gave a curse to be a bird like woodcutter and scanty means little. he gave curse to women because women did not give him enough food to eat