Reading
Comprehension
Answer the following questions.
1. What is the significance of the title of the poem 'Good Timber?
2. What is good timber? How does tree grow into good timber?
3. What, according to Douglas Malloch, is the fate of those people who
do not work hard in life?
4. How can a person achieve his/her true potential in life? Illustrate it with
examples from the poem 'Good Timber'.
5. What is the central idea of the poem 'Good Timber'?
6. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem 'Good Timber'?
7. An extended metaphor is a poetic device in which two unlike things are
compared in a series of lines of a poem. Give the example of extended
metaphor from poem 'Good Timber'.
8. What is alliteration ?Give its examples from the poem 'Good Timber'question 4 answer
Answers
1. The title signifies that the way a tree grow and develops its branches and form good timber in the same way a human being grow with his hard work and reaches its goal by overcoming all the difficulties coming in its path.
2. Good timber does not grow with ease – The stronger the wind, the stronger the trees, The further the sky, the greater the length – The more the storm the more the strength. By sun and cold, by rain and snow – In trees and men good timbers grow.
3. They survive from storms and cyclones and still stand tall because they live through the difficulties. Those who do not work hard, can not face the storms, and do not achieve their strength they are broken and shattered.
4. The message of this poem is that people, like trees, grow and reach their true potential by overcoming adversity. It is only through struggles, like a tree fighting through forest growth to reach the sun, that we grow and discover our true potential.
5. The message of this poem is that people, like trees, grow and reach their true potential by overcoming adversity. It is only through struggles, like a tree fighting through forest growth to reach the sun, that we grow and discover our true potential.
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7. Extended metaphor examples can be found throughout literature and poetry. Some famous examples include: ... Emily Dickinson, 'Hope' is the thing with feathers: Dickinson uses extended metaphor to great effect in her poem “'Hope' is the thing with feathers—”. She compares the feeling of hope to a little bird.
8. Alliteration is an interesting formal device that can be sen through the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of multiple words. For example, “broken branches” in stanza four and “storm” and “strength” in stanza three. Enjambment is also an important technique to take note of in 'Good Timber'.
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