English Poem 2. The Lame Boy's Lament
Poem 2 The Lame Boy’s
Lament- Robert Browning
New words
1.bereft
2.lame
3.pleasant
4.hue
Meanings and sentences.
1.bereft- sad and lonely because you have lost something.
Sentence- The car accident left Tom bereft.
2.lame-unable to walk because of injury on leg or foot.
Sentence- The lame man needs a stick to walk.
3.pleasant- giving sense of happy satisfaction
Sentence- He spent a pleasant afternoon reading his
favourite story book.
4.hue-a particular shade of a colour.
Sentence-Placing the cloth over the lamp produced a
blue hue in our bedroom.
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Textual exercise.
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1. |
Read the extracts given below and answer the questions
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a) |
The music stopped and I stood
still And found myself
outside the hill |
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When the music stopped, the poet stood still. |
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ii. |
The poet felt assured that his lame foot would be speedily cured. |
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iii. |
The poet feels sad, since he is left alone in the town, against his
will. |
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lost |
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b) |
I can’t forget that I’m bereft Of all the pleasant sights they
see |
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They refers to
the other children who accompanied the piper. |
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ii. |
The pleasant sights
are those of the new
place where waters
gushed, fruit trees grew, flowers and
birds were bigger
and brighter. |
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iii. |
The speaker was bereft as
he was lame,
owing to which
he couldn’t keep
pace and lost out on what
the piper had to offer. |
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iv. |
sad |
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2. |
Answer
the following questions in 30-40 words. |
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a) |
Why was
the poet sad? |
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The poet could
not keep pace
with the piper
and the other
children because of his
lame foot He was sad,
because he could
not enjoy the
pleasures of the
joyous land that the Piper
had promised the children. |
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What does the poet
say about the joyous land? |
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In the joyous land, the
waters gushed, fruit
trees grew and
the flowers exhibited a fairer shade of
colour. The sparrows were brighter than
the peacocks in
the poet’s town, the dogs
outran the fallow
deer. |
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c) |
Why did the poet
feel his lame
foot would be cured? |
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Everything |
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was better in the
joyous land so the poet felt his lame foot would be cured. |
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3. |
Answer
the following questions in 80-100 words. |
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As promised the
piper got rid
of the rats
from the town
of Hamelin. The
people were were overjoyed. The
Mayor does not
pay the piper
the amount of
money agreed upon and offered the piper only
50 guilders. The
Piper threatened the
village with drastic consequences, if he did
not receive his
full payment. But
they ignored his warning. The Piper began
to play his
flute again. This time the
children of the
town, who began to
follow him. The
Piper reached a nearby mountain, a doorway opened and the piper along
with the children disappeared into it.
One lame boy
could not keep pace
with the other
children and was
left behind. He
was sad because he could not enjoy
the pleasure of
the joyous land
that the piper
had promised the
children. WORKBOOK     |
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