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notesblognepal.blogspot.com Explanation In the poem exile the poet is trying to depict the cruel state of wild animals that are captured and put in the cage against their will. Animals love the life in the wild. They love freedom and natural place to survive, but human beings for our pleasure and interest we act against their natural life. notesblognepal.blogspot.com  This poem is about a tiger which is being caged in a zoo. He wants to be free. His freedom had been snatched away by man. So he is planning to escape from prison. He is locked inside the bars and there is a problem with the bars as they do not bend with the wind. He has lost the sharpness of his claws due to long walking on cemented floor. He can smell other animals that he hunted in the wild, but now he has no interest to hunt them as he is supplied with easy meat that gets without hunting. He does not have to hunt animals by hiding, running, jumping and attacking with his sharp claws and tearing with his ...

notesblognepal.blogspot.com Patriotism Sir Walter Scott notesblognepal.blogspot.com The love, respect of one’s own country is patriotism. The person who loves breadth’s for the country is patriotic. A person who concentrates all in self can never have feeling of patriotism. A patriotic thinks of welfare of his country. S/he feels proud to say his country name and live for the name and fame of the country. He is not bought by the greed of wealth or by the self fame also. notesblognepal.blogspot.com Explanation of the poem notesblognepal.blogspot.com This poem has been composed by Sir Walter Scott. In this poem the poet illustrates one of the heavenly qualities in human beings and the quality of patriotism. He says that one should be patriotic and should have deep love and respect for his motherland. notesblognepal.blogspot.com He says that a man who has no love for his motherland is like a dead person. It is difficult to believe that a man spiritually so dead that he ...

notesblognepal.blogspot.com Knowledge Eleanor Farjeon notesblognepal.blogspot.com In the poem knowledge the poet expresses her opinion about the value of knowledge for the young learners. She says that one should know the value of time and make best use of it for the future purpose if she or he wants get benefited from it. The poet compares the human mind with a meadow and a young learner with a farmer. The poet says that a good farmer does not like to see bare fields. He likes to sow seeds and looks after them with care. In the same way, a good learners should not keep his mind empty and be a know nothing or uneducated person. He should plant the seeds of different types of knowledge such as science, astronomy, nature, mathematics, history, music and literature in the right time. If he keeps his mind busy studying and acquires knowledge from various sources, he or she is sure to get good outcome in the future and become a knowledgeable, educated and a well informed person. L...

notesblognepal.blogspot.com WHERE THE MIND IS WITHOUT FEAR This poem in this selection has been taken from his English ‘Gitanjali’. Tagore had deep religious roots and his work reflects profound humanism. He was both a patriot and a global citizen. In the poem, ‘Where the Mind Is without Fear’, Tagore sketches a moving picture of the nation he would like India to be. notesblognepal.blogspot.com A nation where everyone within the fold of the brotherhood is free to hold up one’s head high and one’s voice can be heard without having any apprehension or fear of oppression or forced compulsion.   notesblognepal.blogspot.com He talks about a nation where the knowledge is not restricted by narrow ideas and loyalties! The British rule had robbed India of its pride and dignity by reducing it to a ruined nation. The India of Tagore’s dream is a country where her people hold their heads high with their pride in knowledge and strength born of that knowledge where all cou...

notesblognepal.blogspot.com Stopping by woods on a snowy evening Robert Frost notesblognepal.blogspot.com Explanation notesblognepal.blogspot.com The poet narrates the beauty of the nature and his duty as a human being. One snowy winter evening the poet was riding through a dark forest. He stopped for sometimes in the woods. The poet knew the owner of the woods who lived in the village nearby and in his absence the poet was enjoying the loneliness of the nature. The poet was on the horse-back and the horse was surprised to find that his master stopped without a farm house between the woods and the frozen lake in the darkest evening of the ear. Poetic fancy had taken him to the queer world. Meanwhile his horse broke the silence by shaking the harness bells in order to ask if he committed some mistakes. The sound that could be heard was of the gentle wind and the falling of soft snow flakes. The bells and the wind awakened the poet from the flights of fancy. Then he realized h...

1.  Choose the correct word from the brackets to complete the passage below: Half an hour before daybreak three of the boys assembled, as they agreed, near the old bridge. …………(A, An, The) fourth, a boy by the name of Tolly, had not turned up. His absence did not make the others …………….(feel, to feel, felt) greatly surprise. They knew that his mother did not want him to come ………..(at, on, in) this expedition into the forest. Charles, ……………..(where, who, whose) was the oldest and their accepted leader, waded downstream to the place where their boat was tied up in the shelter of some overhanging bushes. Then he rowed the boat back to the shallow water near the bridge, where the boys loaded it with the provisions, blankets and other things that they ………….(was, were, are) taking on their journey. Dawn was just breaking as they climbed into their boat and pushed off from the bank. A swift current carried them downstream, so there was no need to row. They took ...