COMPREHENSION: POEM 3

 Comprehension

 POEMS  

Read the given poem and answer the the questions that follow:


BIRCHES


 When I see birches bend to left and right 

 Across the lines of straighter darker trees,

 I like to think some boy’s been swinging them.

 But swinging doesn’t bend them down to stay. 

 Ice-storms do that. Often you must have seen them

 Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning After a rain. 

They click upon themselves

 As the breeze rises, and turn many-colored

 As the stir cracks and crazes their enamel.

 Soon the sun’s warmth makes them shed crystal shells 

 Shattering and avalanching on the snow-crust 

 Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away 

 You’d think the inner dome of heaven had fallen


. (From Birches by Robert Frost) 


i. What happens to them after an ice storm? 

 ii. What is the effect of the sun on the ice-laden birch trees? 

 iii. Pick two words that denote or evoke the sense of sound in the above lines? 

 iv. To what has the poet compared the dome of heaven? 

v. Pick the line that uses alliteration to the maximum. 




Write a short lyrical poem on any one of the themes given below.

 You may 

use figures of speech to embellish your poem and make it more effective.

 

* Rains after scorching summer ..

. * The little village you have your roots in …

 * Motherland ... 

* Reminiscences of school …

 * Glory of a festival ... 

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