Complete बिहार बोर्ड 12th English Solution
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- Summary - Very easy, Line by Line English and Hindi.
1.Who has written the poem ‘Now the Leaves are Falling
Fast’?
- W.H. Auden
2.What was the full name of W.H. Auden?
- Wystan Hugh Auden
3.W.H. Auden won Pulitzer prize in -
- 1948
4.W. H. Auden was born in -
- 1907
5.W.H. Auden died in-
1973
6.W.H. Auden won Pulitzer Prize for which book?
- The age of anxiety
7.Poetry to W.H. Auden was a ________ game.
- Serious
8.When did W.H. Auden leave England
- In 1939
9.Where did W.H. Auden settle permanently after leaving England?
- In the United States
10. Auden’s work is divided into two parts, which are they?
- British and American Phases
11. ‘Now the Leaves are Falling Fast’ can be categorized
as a -
- Lyric
12. What is the theme of the poem ‘Now the Leaves are
Falling Fast’?
- The frustration inherited in human life
13. In the second line of the poem ‘Now the Leaves are
Falling Fast’, what is the meaning of ‘Nurse’?
- A tree
14. What is the tone of the poem ‘Now the Leaves are Falling Fast’?
- Pessimistic-cum-optimistic
15. What type of mythological creatures are ‘Trolls’, mentioned in the poem ‘Now the Leaves are Falling Fast’?
- Scandinavian
B.1 Read the following sentences and write ‘T’ for true
and ‘F’ for false statements:
a) The leaves are falling very fast. - True
b) The nurses are still there to take care of the flowers. -False
c) All the prams are gone to the grave. - True
d)‘Whispering neighbours' disturb the 'real delight" of the ageing persons. - True
e) Old persons feel lonely as they gradually become inactive. - True
f) Death freezes the body and separates us from the crowd of the people. - True
g) The promises of love are often deceptive. - True
h) Starvation and suffering do not characterise human life. - False
i) Travellers get one relief in the waterfall of the mountain. - True
j) ‘The prams go rolling on' suggests the continuity of life. - False
B.2 Complete the following sentences on the basis of the poem:-
(i) Nurses to the graves are gone and the prams go
rolling on.
(ii) Cold, impossible, ahead
List the mountain's lovely head
Whose white waterfall could bless
Travellers in their last distress.
B.3 Answer the following questions briefly:
1.What does the poet mean when he says “Now the leaves are falling fast”?
Ans – By saying “Now the leaves are falling fast” the poet indicates the decaying life, which is ending continuously.
2.What are the words in the second stanza that suggest death and the effect of death on human body?
Ans – Whispering neighbors, pluck and freeze are some of the words which suggest death and effect of death on human life.
3.How do we complete our last journey to the grave?
Ans – Our neighbors and dear ones join together and and take our dead body for the final cremation or burial in the grave.
4.What do ‘Trolls’ do in the ‘leafless wood’?
Ans – Trolls run here and there scolding in search of food in the leafless wood.
5.Who are the ‘travellers’ and how will they be ‘blessed’?
Ans – Old people are the travellers and they will be blessed by the white waterfall.
6.Which words in the first stanza suggest objects from nature?
Ans – Nurse, flowers, pram are the words which suggest that nature is like an object that nurses us and take care of us.
7.Who are the ‘whispering neighbors’?
Ans – Different agents of nature or messengers of death are the whispering neighbors.
8.How does human life become miserable?
Ans – Human life becomes miserable with decaying age.
9.In what way will the travellers be blessed?
Ans – Travellers indicate all the living creatures on the earth. They will be blessed by the beautiful visual and sights of the nature.
Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast W.H. Auden
Q.1 - Falling of leaves suggests the process of death and human waste on a large scale. Explain with reference to the poem.
Ans. – In this poem, the poet has used leaves to symbolize life and their falling suggests the end of it. Whenever leaves fall from a tree or a plant it reflects the death, further it becomes waste that lie on the ground until it gets decomposed in soil. Just like leaves we human also go through the process of dying and being a waste on this planet. So definitely falling of the leaves suggests the process of death and human waste on a large scale.
Q.2 - The poet is critical of negative tendencies of the human society. What are these tendencies? Give details.
Ans. – the poet has been critical of several negative tendencies of the human societies in this poem. He uses the term ‘whispering neighbours’ to point towards them who
always criticize others and talk evil of them, this thing really cause suffering to a lot of people. In one line he says that ‘arms raised stiffly to reprove in false attitudes of love’. It shows how artificial have love and affection been now a day. People only hug each other to perform some practices and formalities. There is no more warmth in their hug and love.
Q.3 Who are the "strolls" in the real world.
Ans. – ‘Strolls’ is actually derived from "trolls", that means wicked and ugly creatures in Scandinavian mythology. When forests are leafless these trolls run here and there in
search of food and so some of the human do in tough times. They don’t mind whether they are dealing with poor or rich, they make them their prey and move ahead in earch of other vulnerable ones.
Q.4 - Though the poet refers to 'death' several times, yet the poem Is not a pessimistic one. Justify your answer.
Ans. – Of course W.H. Auden refers to death and misery several times in this poem but in the end of the poem he is optimistic when he says that there are certain things and
certain people in our lives who act like Mountain heads in our journey and keep us hopeful and motivated throughout our journey. So the poem is not pessimistic one.
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