Question

Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.

They, too, aware of sun and air and water,

Are fed by peaceful harvests, by war‟s long winter starv‟d

Their hands are ours, and in their lines we read

A labour not different from our own

QUESTIONS 4×1=4 marks

a. What is the poet meant by the first line?

b. How do people get food?

c. What do wars result in?

d. What is the meaning of peaceful harvest?

Or

This was hardly what I intended. What I had meant, of course, was that I should boss the job, and

that Harris and George should potter about under my directions.

a. Who is „I” here?

b. Which job did the speaker want to boss?

c. What did he want Harris and George to do?

d. Which quantity of the speaker is reflected in the above lines?​

Answer 1

Answer:

a)author b.to become boss