Read the following poem carefully. (12 marks)
Anger
1. Anger in its time and place
May assume a kind of grace.
It must have some reason for it,
And not last beyond a minute.
2. If to further lengths it goes,
It does into malice grow.
This the difference that we see
Twixt the serpent and the bee.
3. If the latter you provoke,
It inflicts a hasty stroke,
Puts you to some little pain,
But it never stings again.
4. Close in tufted bush or brake
Lurks the poison-swelled snake
Nursing up his cherished wrath;
In the purlieux of his path,
5. In the cold, or in the warm,
Mean him good, or mean him harm,
Whensoever fate may bring you,
The vile snake will always sting you. (i) Why do you think that anger which lasts beyond a minute becomes dangerous?
(ii) How does the anger of the bee differ from that of the snake?
(iii) What does the poet compare the anger of the snake with?
(iv) Find a word from the poem (verse-3) which means ‘to try to annoy’.
(v) Find a word from the poem (verse-4) which means ‘extreme anger’.
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1) The anger which last beyond a minute,grows in us like a poison and doesn't let us mend relationship, even after all the good deeds done.
2) The bee would sting and go away but snake's poison will keep growing in us till it reaches its extreme end,i.e. destroy everything in its path.
3) The poet compares the anger of the snake with nursing wrath.
4) To try to annoy - provoke.
5) Extreme anger - Wrath.
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