3.3.1 How to Tell Wild Animals
CAROLYN
WELLS
This Hrous poem suggests some dangerous ways to identify (or ‘tell’) wild
animals! Read it aloud, keeping to a strong and regular rhythm.
If ever you should go by chance
To jungles in the east;
And if there should to you advance
A large and tawny beast,
If he roars at you as you’re dyin’
You’ll know it is the Asian Lion...
Questions:
01. What
is the name of the poem and poet?
02. Write
the name of the poem and the poet?
03. From
where these lines have been taking?
04. Where
did you go according to the poem?
05. What
did you see in the jungles of the east?
06. How
did the Asian Lion look in appearance?
07. How
it creates the fear before him in the jungle?
08. Where
one can find this beast?
09. How
will you identify the Asian Lion in jungles?
10. How
does the poet describe the lion?
Or if some time when roaming round,
A noble wild beast greets you,
With black stripes on a yellow ground,
Just notice if he eats you.
This simple rule may help you learn
The
Questions:
01. Which
animal is referred here?
02. Who
will greats you in the wild beast?
03. How
will you identify the Bengal Tiger in jungles?
04. How
does the poet describe the lion?
05. How
you distinguished it?
06. What
is simple rule for the Bengal Tiger?
07. How
does this animal express its nobility?
If
strolling forth, a beast you view,
Whose hide with spots is peppered,
As soon as he has lept on you,
You’ll know it is the Leopard.
’Twill do no good to roar with pain,
He’ll only lep and lep again.
Questions:
01. How
can we identify the Leopard?
02. What
is its quality?
03. How
it differ from the Bengal Tiger?
04. Who
lept on you?
05. Whose
is covered with hide spots?
06. What will it do?
If when you’re walking round your yard
You meet a creature there,
Who hugs you very, very hard,
Be sure it is a Bear.
If you have any doubts, I guess
He’ll give you just one more caress.
Questions:
01. 
Where are you
moving in above lines?
02. Whom
did you meet here?
03. Who
hugs you very much?
04. How
will you recognize it?
05. What
will it do again?
06. Write
down one quality of bear?
07. Can
you keep a bear as a domestic animal?
Though
to distinguish beasts of prey
A
novice might nonplus,
The Crocodile you always may
Tell from the Hyena thus:
Hyenas come with merry smiles;
But if they weep they’re Crocodiles.
Questions:
01. Who
cannot distinguish through the beasts of prey?
02. How
does a Hyena look before you?
03. What
is a Crocodile? How it behaves before you?
04. What
is distinguishing between Hyena and Crocodile?
05. Who
come with merry smiles?
06. Who
comes with sad face?
07. What
is quality of Crocodiles?
08. Why
would a novice get confused?
09. How
are the crocodiles identified in the forest?
10. How
are the Hyenas distinguished from crocodiles?
11. Name
the other beasts of prey. Any two.
The
true Chameleon is small,
A lizard sort of thing;
He hasn’t any ears at all,
And not a single wing.
If there is nothing on the tree,
’Tis
the chameleon you see.
Questions:
01.
Who is like a Lizard?
02.
Who is small?
03.
Who is a Chameleon?
04.
Which two pats are not there on its body?
05.
When can you look a Chameleon?
06.
Where it is found?
07.
How does a chameleon look like?
08.
Can a chameleon hear? If not, Why?
09.
How can we identify a chameleon?
10.
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Q1) The poet has
mentioned some of the wild animals of the forest and water. What are they? Ans1) The poet
mentions many wild animals in the poem. They are the lion, the tiger, the
bear, the hyena, the leopard and the chameleon, etc. The crocodile is water
animals. Q2) How you can
identify the Asian lion and the Bengaltiger? Ans2) The lion is
large and tawny beast. It will roar on seeing a man. A tiger has a greeting
quality. It has black stripes on its yellow coloured body. It will
immediately attack and eat a person. Q3) Write the summary
of the poem ‘How to tell wild animal’? Ans3) The poet
mentions many wild animals in the poem. They are the lion, the tiger, the
bear, the hyena, the leopard and the chameleon, crocodile etc. A lion will
roar on seeing a human being. A tiger with black stripes on its body will
immediately attack and eat a man. Leopard has spots on his body. It leaps on
its enemy. A bear always shows affection. A crocodiles is a treacherous type
of water animal and a hyena will show merry smiles. All these animals are our
enemies.But a chameleon is a simple and sympathetic type of creature. It is
always found on a tree. It has neither wings nor ears. |
JOHN BERRYMAN
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A boy loses a ball. He
is very upset. A ball doesn’t cost much, nor is it difficult to buy another
ball. Why then is the boy so upset? Read the poem to see what the poet thinks
has been lost, and what the boy has to learn from the experience of losing
something. |
Stanza – 01
What is the boy now, who
has lost his ball,
What, what is he to do? I
saw it go
Merrily bouncing, down
the street, and then
Merrily over — there it
is in the water!
No use to say ‘O there
are other balls’:
An ultimate shaking grief
fixes the boy
Questions:
01.
Write down the name of
the poet and the poem from which stanza is taken?
02.
What did the boy doing?
03.
What did the poet see?
04.
Whose ball is this and
how did he feel?
05.
How did the boy feel at
the loss of his ball?
06.
Explain ‘O, the are other
balls’.
07.
What is ultimate shaking
grief fixes the boy?
Wore meaning:
Merrily = happily, with joy
Bouncing = Jumping, Leaping
Ultimate = Last
Shaking grief = Full of sadness, sadness which greatly affects
Fixes = Caught, troubles, pierces
O there are other balls: The words suggest that
the loss is not important enough to worry about
Stanza – 02
An ultimate shaking grief
fixes the boy
As he stands rigid,
trembling, staring down
All his young days into
the harbour where
His ball went. I would
not intrude on him;
A dime, another ball, is
worthless. Now
He senses first
responsibility
In a world of possessions
Questions:
01.
Why is the boy sad?
02.
How did the boy feel?
03.
Who is ‘I’ in above
lines?
04.
Where is the boy staring?
05.
What is a dime?
06.
Why doesn’t the poet
offer to buy him another ball?
07.
What does ‘first
responsibility’ refer to?
08.
What happened in his mind
at that time?
Word Meanings:
Rigid = Stiff, Harsh, Hard
Trembling = Shaking
Staring = Looking keenly, Gazing
Harbour = Shelter
(to) intrude on = here,
to enter a situation where one is not welcome
A dime = Ten cents (
Another = Second, Other one
Worthless = Useless
Senses = Consider, Understand
Responsibility = Liability (Jimmedari), and act of showing urgency.
Possessions = Rights (Adhikar)
Stanza – 03
In a world of possessions
People will take
Balls, balls will be lost
always, little boy.
And no one buys a ball
back. Money is external.
He is learning, well
behind his desperate eyes,
The epistemology of loss,
how to stand up
Knowing what every man
must one day know
And most know many days,
how to stand up.
Questions:
01.
What does ‘world of
possessions mean?
02.
Identify ‘he’ in this
stanza.
03.
What is this world
consists of?
04.
What is the boy learning from the loss of
ball?
05.
What did the poet say to
the ball?
06.
What did the poet say
about the boy?
07.
Why money is called
external?
08.
What is the mean of
‘epistemology of loss’
Word Meaning:
External = Outer
Desperate = hopeless
Epistemology of loss = understanding the nature of loss
Epistemology = The Greek word episteme means ‘knowledge’ (it
comes from a word meaning ‘to understand, to know’). Epistemology is the study
of the nature of knowledge itself.
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Q1) What message does
John Berryman want to convey through this poem? Ans1) The message
that the poet wants to convey is the importance of loss and responsibility in
life. We should not forget the importance of possessions. Q2) How does the boy
feel at the loss of his ball? Ans2) The boy very
much troubled at the loss of his ball. His ball falls in water. He is much
upset as he has a long association with the ball. Q3) “Money is
external’ What does the poet mean by this expression taken from the ball? Ans3) He makes the
boy understand about his responsibility as the loss is immaterial. He can
purchase another ball. He explained that the world is full of possessions and
money is external item |
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