U.S. Academy SKP’s notes English Part-I
Academy SKP’s notes English Part-I
Poems
Short Questions: (4x2=8)
The Rain (W.H. Davies)
What is the theme of the poem, “The Rain”? (FB-15; BP-14; )
How does the poet feel when he hears the rain falling on leaves? (LR-15; FB-14)
What does the poet mean by the “poor leaves”? (GW-17)
How does the rain water fall on the leaves? (FB-18)
How does the rain water fall on poor leaves? (LR-16)
Night Mail ()
What is the main idea of “Night Mail”? (LR-18; GW-14)
What does the Night Mail bring? (FB-14,15)
The Night Mail brings the cheques, postal orders and letters. It carries letter for the
rich as well as for the poor. There are several hurdles in its way but she reaches its
destination in time.
What are the main characteristics of the Night Mail? (GW-16)
How do the sheep-dogs react at the arrival of night mail? (LR-15)
Cherry ()
What is Cherry tree wearing? (LR-17)
What time of the year mentioned in the first stanza? (FB-14; LR-18)
Why are the fifty springs little to see the cherry tree? (FB-15)
Why is the poet fascinated by the Cherry? (FB-15)
Describe the beauty of Cherry? (GW-15)
Why does the poet consider Cherry the loveliest of all the tress? (FB-17)
How does the poet plan to spend the small period of his remaining life of 50 years?
(LR-15)
What is Easter? (BP-15;
What are the feelings of poet standing in the dark? (LR-17; FB-15; GW-16,18)
What did the poet reflect when he saw the Sindhi Woman? (LR-17)
What words were inscribed at the bottom of statue? (LR-17,18)
What has made the efforts of Muslims Fruitless? (LR-17; FB-18; SG-14)
Why does a person feel helpless in the death of a friend? (LR-17)
What is the significance of title “O Where Are You Going”? (FB-14,18; GW-16)
What is the poet trying to say in the last two lines of the poem, “Leisure”? (FB-14)
Describe the scene of Devastation. (FB-14; GW-15)
Why did Mansur mount the gallows? (FB-14; GW-15)
How Cherry has been personified? (FB-14)
Without whose love is Bullah in loss? (LR-14; FB-14,16)
Why is the soul of Europe empty of concord? (FB-14)
How does the rider shake off the superstitions and dangers? (GW-14)
Why has poet used “Cannon balls” to describe the fruit? (LR-15; FB-16; GW-14,17;
BP-14; SG-14;)
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What sort of path the Sindhi Woman has to cross? (GW-14)
Who cannot compete with the civilization of Makkah? (GW-14; BP-14)
How did the Japanese bear the pains of the black day? (GW-14)
Describe the attributes of Allah. (LR-14; GW-14)
The Cherry is covered with snow. What does it mean? (GW-14)
“One grain is to be fed to ten young ones”. What does it mean? (LR-16; GW-14)
Who shared the moans and lessened the groans of the people of two cities? (GW-
14)
What happens to the children when they eat fruit? (LR-14)
What did the traveler see in the desert? (LR-,14,15; FB-16,18; GW-16; SG-14)
Who treated the bazar of Egypt? (LR-14)
What is the main idea of the poem, “The Feed”? (LR-14; FB-15,16; SG-14)
How does the poet compare men with animals? (LR-14; GW-17,18)
What kind of the picture of Karachi Slums do we get from the poem, “The Sindhi
Women”? (LR-14; FB-15)
What is worse than slavery? (FB-16; SG-14;)
How were the people of two cities made powerless and helpless? (LR-14; GW-
15,16; SG-14; )
What is main idea of “Leisure”? (FB-15; GW-16)
What is main idea of “A Tale of Two Cities”? (FB-15)
How do God’s attributes save us from sins? (FB-15,18)
What did the poet reflect when he saw Sindhi Woman? (GW-15; FB-18)
What is the theme of the poem “Ozymandias”? (LR-18; GW-15)
Why does a person remember God? (GW-15)
What are the effects of the attributes of God? (GW-15,16; FB-16,18)
How does the reader frighten the rider? (GW-15)
What are the things that keep a person alive? (GW-15; SG-14)
When does a person question his senses when the facts fail him? (GW-15)
Why does T.S. Eliot call modern man as Hallow Men? (FB-16,17; GW-16,18)
What is the moral lesson of the poem, “In Broken Image”? (FB-16)
Why does the jug in the bedroom shake when the train passes? (FB-16)
“I am the shadow that follows a child”. What does it mean? (FB-16)
Describe the circumstances the victim of two cities had to pass through? (GW-16)
What happened when life is spent with the help of words and not of deeds? (GW-
16; BP-14;)
What does the sparrow hold in her beak? (LR-18; GW-16)
Describe the qualities of Sindhi Woman? (FB-17; LR-18)
What type of delights do we miss in our life because of lack of time? (FB-17,18)
What is the bare truth? (FB-17)
Why does poet realize that his life is very short? (GW-17)
How does the poet describe the personality of Sindhi Woman? (GW-17,18)
Why is mother sparrow worried? (GW-17,18)
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What is the effect of the death scene? (FB-18)
Why do the children forget the problems after eating fruits? (FB-18)
What is the theme of the poem, “Times”? (FB-18)
Why does the horror remind the hearer of the shape in twisted trees? (GW-18)
Who was Ozymandias? (GW-18)
How do the attributes of God help in refining the character of a person? (GW-18)
What is meant by a man of words and not of deeds? (GW-18)
What fruits does the poet mention in the poem ‘In the Street of Fruit Stalls’? (LR-15)
When does the life of a man become poor? (LR-15)
What is effect of love? (LR-15)
Give character sketch of Ozymandias? (LR-15)
What does the title of the poem “The Hollow Man” suggests? (LR-15)
Who was Abraham? What was his faith? (LR-15)
What is the effect of death of Bullah Shah’s Friend on him? (LR-15)
What do hollow men mean? (LR-16)
What does the horror say about the spot on the hearer’s skin? (LR-16)
What do you feel after reading the poem “The Feed”? (LR-16)
What is meant by “A man of words and not of deeds”? (LR-16)
How can a rainy day be enjoyed? (LR-18)
Why does a person feel helpless on the death of a friend? (LR-18; BP-14)
Why does the poet consider hollow men useless for a nation? (LR-18)
What makes one entangled in love? (LR-18)
What is the theme of “O Where are you going”? (SG-14;
What is the main idea of “The Hollow Men”? (SG-14;