Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea, Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely form’d, altogether changed,
and yet the same.
Questions
1) Why does the rain use the word ’eternal’?
2) Explain the phrase ‘yet the same’.
Answers
Answer:
The headmaster entered the class with a slightly flushed face and a hard
ominous look in his eyes. Swaminathan wished that he had been anywhere but there at
that moment. The headmaster surveyed the class for a few minutes and asked, ‘Are you
not ashamed of coming and sitting there after what you did yesterday?’ Just as a special
honour to them, he read out the names of a dozen students or so that had attended the
class. After that he read out the names of those that had kept away, and asked them to
stand on their benches. He felt that punishment was not enough and asked them to
stand on their desks. Swaminathan was among them and felt humiliated at that
eminence. Then they were lectured. When it was over, they were asked to offer
explanations one by one. One said that he had an attack of a headache and therefore
could not come to school. He was asked to bring a medical certificate.
The second said that while he had been coming to school on the previous day,
someone had told him that there would be no school, and he had gone back home. The
headmaster replied that if he was going to listen to every loafer who said there would
be no school, he deserved to be flogged. Anyway, why did he not come to school and
verify? No answer. The punishment was pronounced: ten days’ attendance cancelled,
two rupees fine, and the whole day to be spent on the desk. The third said that he had
an attack of a headache. The fourth said that he had stomach ache. The fifth said that his
grandmother died suddenly just as he was starting for school. The headmaster asked
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