बिहार बोर्ड Complete 12th English Solution
- About the Poet
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- All Word Meanings,
- All Questions & Answers,
- Objective Question Answers
- Summary - Very easy, Line by Line English and Hindi.
B. Long Answer Type Questions With
Their Answers:
1. Find out the examples of use of
hyperbole in the poem,
'Sweetest Love, I Do Not Goe’
Ans: (a) When thou
weep'st, unkindly kinde.
(b) My lifes blood doth decay.
(c) If in thine my life thou waste.Thou
art the best of mee.
2. Write a note on the use of
hyperbole in the poem, 'Sweetest Love, I Do Not Goe'.
Ans. Hyperbole is a
kind of figure of speech. It is used to heighten the literary effect. Donne's
poems abound in it. Sometimes it takes a form of unnecessary exaggeration. But,
in this poem it is not so because it is an intense expression of a lover who is
going to part away from his beloved for some time. Following stanza is a fine
example of Donne's use of hyperbole :
"Yesternight the Sunne went hence.
And yet is here to day.
He hath no desire nor sense
Nor halfe so short a way:
Then feare not mee,”
But beleeve that I shall make
Speedier journeys, since I take
More wings and spurres then hee."
But beleeve that I shall make
Speedier journeyes, since I take
More wings and spurres then hee.
3. Comment on the power of love in
the light of these lines.
But
beleeve that I shall make
Speedier journeyes, since I take
More wings and spurres then hee.
Ans. Love has always
been a very inspiring source for poets. Here the poet who is going abroad
assures his beloved wife that he will return to her soon. For this he will
travel more swiftly than the sun. The poet has used here hyperbole to heighten
the degree of his love.
4. Explain:
They
who one another keepe
Alive, ne'r parted bee.
Ans. Here the poet
says that lovers who are responsible for keeping each other alive on account of
mutual love that exists between them can never be parted. In other words, the
poet means to say that those persons who inspire love of unearthly nature in
one another can never be parted.
5. Summarise the poem, 'Sweetest
Love, I Do Not Goe'.
Ans: See the summary
Link.
6. What arguments does the poet,
Donne give at the time of parting with his beloved?
Ans. He says that he
wants to leave her not because he is wearied of her. Neither he is in the hope
of finding a more suitable love, nor the world can provide a fitter beloved for
him. His desire to leave her is inspired by the thought that he must die
sometime. That is why he wants to accustom himself to this by pretending death
because separation from his beloved being no less than death for him.
7. How can lovers overcome 'bad'
chance?
Ans. Love is a great
force for human beings. It makes human conscience strong. People who are in
love possess strong will-power. Through the strong will-power lovers overcome
bad chance with smiles on their lips. The lovers in this poem are its fine
examples. Physical hurdles do not matter for them. 8. What images from Nature
are used in the poem, 'Sweetest Love, I Do Not Goe? Ans. Donne's source of
images is broad. It consists Nature, too and the use of sun, wind etc. are in
'Sweetest Love, I Do Not Goe', are its fine examples.
9. Which images used in 'Sweetest
Love, I Do Not Goe' do you like the most?
Ans. Donne's use of images in this poem is praiseworthy.
However, I like the use of the image of the sun most.
C. Short Answer Type Questions With
Their Answers Answer the following questions briefly:
1. Why does the poet, John
Donne want to go away from his beloved?
Ans. He wants to rehearse to live alone
without wife as he knows that death is inevitable and it will ultimately part
them.
2. What are the things according
to Donne, that the sun does not have?
Ans. The sun does not have
desire, sense and shorter way to return his beloved as a true lover herein
Donne possesses.
3. What will make speaker's
journey speedier according to the poem, 'Sweetest Love, I Do Not Goe"?
Ans. Desire, sense and
shorter way to return to his beloved will make speaker's journey speedier.
4. What makes a man's power
feeble according to the poem, "Sweetest Love, I Do Not Goe'?
Ans. Disability to add a moment
to his happiness and unnecessary sighing as well as weeping make a man's power
feeble.
5. How do sighing and weeping affect the
speaker according to the poem, "Sweetest Love, I Do Not Goe?
Ans. By sighing and weeping
the poet's beloved is wasting her own self as well as the poet's life because
they are complementary to each other.
6. How does the beloved waste
the speaker's life according to the poem.'Sweetest L
Ans. She wastes the speaker's life by
unnecessary sighing and weeping because the speaker and his beloved have
already united and become one in the garb of two men.
7. In what way will the lovers
remain united according to the poem, 'Sweetest Love, I Do Not Goe'?
Ans. By continuing to love each
other and taking death as a mere sleep they will remain united.
D. Read the following lines and answer the
questions:
Let not thy divining heart
Forthinke me any ill,
Destiny may take thy part,
And may thy fears fulfil;
But thinke that wee
Are but turn'd aside to sleepe;
They who one another keepe
Alive, ne'r parted bee.
(a) Who wrote these lines?
Ans: John Donne, the
metaphysical poet wrote these lines.
(b) What does the poet ask his
mistress to do?
Ans.: The poet asks
his mistress not to fear in advance that misfortune will befall him.
(c)What is she advised in case of
the poet's death?
Ans.: She is advised
to think of their relationship as that of lovers who are sleeping together but
turned away from one another.
(d) Why does the poet refer to
destiny?
Ans: The poet refers to destiny to drive home the
point that the fear of misfortune may sometimes prove true. He, therefore,
tells her never to think of misfortune.
(e) What does the poet suggest in
this stanza?
Ans:The poet suggests that the
speaker affirms his love, making it triumph over death. True lovers cannot be
parted.
E. True-False Test:
Write T for True and 'F' for
False statements:
(a) The poet wants to go away
because he is tired of his beloved. Ans. F
(b) The poet has found another lady
who is more beautiful. Ans. F
(c) The poet intends to go on a
longer journey than what the sun undertakes. Ans. T
(d) Man's power is very weak.Ans. T
(e) The poet loves his beloved so
intensely that he will come back very soon. Ans. T
F. Fill in the Blanks Test:
Complete the following sentences
on the basis of the poem, 'Sweetest Love, I Do Not Goe':
(i)
The
speaker's beloved sighs away............ and wastes herself.....
(ii)
The
speaker's life-blood decays when......... his beloved weeps. ...............
(iii)
The
speaker asks his beloved not to forethink him... any ill......................
(iv)
They
who keep one another alive can never.... be parted.............
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