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On Killing A Tree (Explained)

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★ Central idea of the poem. -> A protest against men's indiscriminate cutting down of trees. ★ Message of the poem. -> Emphasis of afforestation. ★ Conflict -> Man vs nature. For existence men kill trees. But trees help them. Man doesn't care the civilization. They do a senseless act. Annotation of the poem : 1. It takes much time to kill a tree. -> To kill a tree is not an easy task. It requires much time and effort. 2. Not a simple jab of the knife will do it. -> An attempt to kill a tree by stabbing with a knife can't be successful. 3. It has grown solely consuming the earth. -> the trees develop slowly by observing the nutrients from the soil. 4. Rising out of it. -> the tree moves upwards penetrating the earth / soil. 5. Feeding upon its crust. -> Earth/soil feeds the tree its top most layer for its growth. 6. Absorbing years of sunlight. -> The tree absorbs sunlight ...
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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day

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1 -  Marks Fill in the blanks 1. The darling buds of May are shaken by the rough winds in - the summer. 2. The opposite meaning of eternal - temporal. 3. The wind is - rough. 4. The eye of heaven - the sun. 5. The sun's complexion is - dimmed. 6. The Sonnet number is - 18. 7. The form of the poem is - Shakespearean Sonnet. 8. Death has no control over - the poet's friend. 9. Temperate means - mild. 10. The beauty of the sun is - temperate. 11. Brag means - boast. 12. Death shall not be able to take the poets friend into its - brag. 13. Shakespeare glorifies the beauty of  - his friend. 14. The poet immortalized his friend through - his poetry. 15. The poet's friend is compared to - a summer's day. SAQ 1. What does the eye of heaven referred to? Ans. "The eye of the heaven" refers to the sun. 2. "So long lives this" - what is referred ...
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Three Questions summary

Tolstoy treats a philosophical theme couched in the tale of a Tsar who is troubled by three questions. The three questions that haunt the Tsar concerns the right time for any action, the person whose advice the Tsar must listened to and the most important thing to do under all circumstances. The Tsar meets a hermit to whom the three questions are posed. The hermit did not give him an immediate answer. Several Tsarevents ensues after that. The Tsar dug the ground on behalf of the hermit and treated a wounded man who came rushing. Having gone through the events, the Tsar got the answer to his three questions. By helping the hermit the Tsar learnt of the insipience of any action and by nursing the wounded man the Tsar understood the kindness that attends all action. Finally he was advised by the hermit to do good, for that was the purpose incumbent on man under all circumstances.
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Strong roots ( extract from Wings of Fire )

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On Killing A Tree (Explained)

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★ Central idea of the poem. -> A protest against men's indiscriminate cutting down of trees. ★ Message of the poem. -> Emphasis of afforestation. ★ Conflict -> Man vs nature. For existence men kill trees. But trees help them. Man doesn't care the civilization. They do a senseless act. Annotation of the poem : 1. It takes much time to kill a tree. -> To kill a tree is not an easy task. It requires much time and effort. 2. Not a simple jab of the knife will do it. -> An attempt to kill a tree by stabbing with a knife can't be successful. 3. It has grown solely consuming the earth. -> the trees develop slowly by observing the nutrients from the soil. 4. Rising out of it. -> the tree moves upwards penetrating the earth / soil. 5. Feeding upon its crust. -> Earth/soil feeds the tree its top most layer for its growth. 6. Absorbing years of sunlight. -> The tree absorbs sunlight ...
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The Eyes Have It summary

Author- Ruskin Bond   Summary : The story traces an ironic encounter between two people who are blind but are unaware of each other's blindness. The narrator, himself a young man, meets a young girl in train compartment. The narrator finds the young girl to be attractive and strikes up a conversation with her. Assuming that the young girl can see, the narrator describes to her the beauty of the hills. The narrator relies on his memory for the description, for he has not always been blind. The narrator is quite taken wih the young girl and wants to spent a memorable time with her as long as their brief journey lasted. The narrator continues to address her not as a blind man, but as someone who could see. When the woman alights at her destinaion, the narrator is shocked to learn from his new fellow traveller that the young girl was as blind as the narrator himself.
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