Question

SECTION -A READING
(MARKS 6 )
1 Read the passage carefully. I am always a little uncomfortable when I find myself
unable to admire some thing which all the rest of the world admires or at least is
reputed to admire. Am L or is the world the fool? I am reluctant lo condemn myself
and almost equally reluctant to believe that I alone am right. Thus when all men
assure me that Spenser is a great poel, I wonder what to do. For to me Spenser
seems only a man with the conjuror's trick of extracting perfectly thymed stanzas by
the hundred out of an empty mind. Perhaps I am unduly prejudiced in favour of
sense, but it has always seemed to me the poets should have something at length, in
thyme and rumbling meter. The world admires but I cannot. I wish I could. Hence at
Agra I found myself affiliated by the same sense of discomfort The Taj Mahal is one
of the seven wonders. My guide assures me that it is perhaps the most beautiful
building in the world. Following his advice, we drove out to have our first look at the
marvel by the light of setting Sun Nature did its best for the Taj. The west was duly
red and orange and yellow, and finally, emerald green, grading into pale and flawless
blue towards the Zeinth. Two evening sfars, Venus and Mercury. pursued the sunken
Sun. The sacred Jamuna was like a sheet of silver between its banks. Beyond it the
piain stretched greyly away into the vapours of distance.
1. On the basis of your reading of the above passage answer the following questions
(2-3-6)
1. When does the writer feel puzzled?
2. Why does he fail to appreciate Spenser as a poet?
3 Name two stars that pursued Sunken Sun
SECTION-B LITERATURE
(MARKS 14)​

Answer 1

Answer:

3. Two evening satar Venus and Mercury pursued Sunken star