Question

Summary of a legend of the northland about 50 words

Answer 1

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A Legend of Northland, Class 9 English Explanation, Summary

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A Legend of Northland - Poem Class 9 CBSE English Explanation, Summary, Question Answers, Difficult words

A Legend of Northland- CBSE class 9 English Poem - detailed explanation of the poem along with meanings of difficult words and literary devices used in the poem. Given here is the complete explanation of the Poems, along with summary. All the exercises and Question and Answers given at the back of the lesson.

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A Legend of Northland by Phoebe Cary

Introduction to the poem

‘A legend of the Northland’ is a ballad. A ballad is a poem narrating a story in short stanzas. Ballad is such kind of poem which tells a story in short stanzas and in the poem all the stanzas comprise four lines. In total, there are 16 stanzas in this poem and these stanzas will tell us a story. Ballads are a part of folk culture or popular culture and are passed on orally from one generation to the next. (Folk culture is a story of any area and is known as ballad). Folk culture comprises of traditional stories which are passed on from one generation to next generation.

This story is of the Northland area, the area which is near the North Pole. This exact place is not specified but ‘Northland’ means the area in the northernmost part of the earth i.e., near the North Pole. ‘Legend’ means a historical story, one which is very old and has been passed on from generation to generation.

Answer 2

Answer: the poem a narrate ballad, tells the story of women who was turned into a woodpecker because of her greedy and selfishness it is a story cast in a cold region of the northland where the days are very short but the nights are very long it is land where Swift reindeers pull this sladge during snow falls and the children look like bear cubs when covered with flacks of snow

now everyone in the countryside can see her woodpecker pecking her food from the wood the idea is the one should rise above selfishness and greediness in order to practise charity

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