SUNSHINE ENGLISH (Concise-1) 452 THE FEED

Poem No.9
THE FEED

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Poem With Translation &Explanation
MAIN IDEA
A mother sparrow brings a grain of millet (aZ) to her nest ( # ) . There are ten
young hungry sparows waiting for food. She could not feed one grain to ten young ones. She
doe not know what to do with the grain. The poet here gives a message (^) to the world
powers. He advises them to produce (tE) grains instead of atom bombs. They should feed the
hungry people. They should use their resources (Cu) for the benefit (Z) of humanity (U).
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Reference: The lines have been taken from the poem, "The Feed" by Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi.
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Context: A
mother aparrow
brings a grain. There are ten young hungry parrow
waiting for food. She could not feed one grain to ten young ones. She could not split It Info
nieces. The poet here advises the world powers to produce grains Instead of atom bombs.
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Lines 1 5
Words Meanings
millet a seed
Synonyms
or a grain of fuod
beak bill, nib
feed t c give food, provide for
tiny small,small, little
Holdinga grain of milet (»z\) in her eak (£)
The mother sparrow has come to feo! (tu).
The young ones are so
ingr(LA) and small
Prom head to toe )
When they cry ( ).
they are beaks (ö¢)
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Explanation The poet says that the
sparrow has v &¢Q\z¢- ES
broughta gainin of millet in her beak. She has
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arived (-UD her feed it
nest to her young
toThey all are
ones The young ones are still very small. n-l LAA14 L4
very hungry. They are crying to be fed. They cry for eLLgn-g+ LLen-LA
food. They open their full beaks for the grain (s).
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Lines 6 -9
conjoin O unite, combine, join, link, connect
solace J P comfort, cheer, console, hearten,
One grain to be fed to the ten young ones
To whom the mother sparrow should feed?
Conjoining U) beak with beak
With whom should she solsce (-uP)»
Explanation: The young ones of the sparow are ten in - LE
number. The grain she has collected (BL) in her beak is
only The mother is worried (e) about feeding her
one.
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ten young ones with one grain of food. She does
not know
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what to do with the grain. To whom should she feed it? 2ulnJVLb
With whom should she join (¢u) her beak? Whose
hunger
should she satisfy (C A)N The problem is to feed ten ASSsavze&ke
young ones with a single grain.
Lines 10 15
fissure 7 crack, split, break
wail de nt/ Ky»T |ery, lament, weep, sob, moan, groan
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break, cut, tear, snap

split
Fissuring 1 ) the atom,
loud tone, -VtJM»lltulayivL?
You have learnt to weep and wail (t/g»)
in a

Spliting 3) the grain.

learnt to on foot
life
You have set

Could you split (t37) the grain? ones.

ten
be fed to the young
One grain to

The poet here criticizes (çt) the HUIUIS¥Uk

Explanation: bombs. They have ILU -lu(lLU
who have built
atom
world powers
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split (t) the atom for the destruction ()of humanity.
in a moment. They could us-UEAsulius
They could kill millions of people
((»). The poet advises such uPEI -L!EM,
make them weep and wail
instead of atom bombs. They Gou g
countries to produce grains
to life. They
should bring the half dead hungry people
to alleviate ( t ) the LJLWLSAS»
should make arrangements ( 4 )
be fed to. ten young LLIGUiLIZ-,
world hunger. Only one grain is to
sparrows.
READING NOTES
seed o r a grain of food
a small grain of a cereal,
a
millet
tiny 2£LA |small, little, teeny
combine, unite, adjoin, touch, meet reach to, ertend to, link
conjoin join,
connect

fissure open, split, crack, cleave, fracture, fragment, part,

rupture, break, split|
crack
split break, chop, cut hew, cleave, rend, rip, tear, slit, snap,

SOLVED EXERCISES OF THE TEXTBOOK

1 Answer the following questions.
L What does the sparrow hold in her beak?
feed her young ones. But she cannot
Ans: She 'holds a grain of millet (2). She wants to

feed one grain to ten young ones. She cannot split (¢9) it even.

ii. Which line in the first stanza tells us that the young ones have no feathers?

Ans: The line "From head to toe they are beaks" tells us so. It means that their tiny bodies

hide behind their open beaks when they cry for food. It shows that they have not

grown feathers yet.

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How many young ones are to be fed?

The sparrow mother wants to feed her ten young ones. Dut she has got only one grain
Ans
in her beak She cannot feed one grain to ten young

has the poet described in the poem?

What poem
Ans:
. The is symbolic (Uw). Tarough the hunger ( ) of sparrows, the poct

highlights (OsOu) the hunger of the word. He teaches that instead of producing
weapons , we should produce food for humans. JnuAsuuz-f-fUA

Choose the correct answer.

What was mother sparrow holding in iii. How many young ones are there in the
her beak? nest?
() wheat (b) rice («) milled (d) maize (a) three (b) ten () twelve (d) nine

The young ones are iny and iv. Name the bird that has come to feed
her young ones?
(a) big (b)smal (a) crow (b) pigeon
() white (d) black notespk.com
)parrow (d) parTot
Explain the last three lines of the poem with relerence to thee context

Ans: The poet suggests (_Sz4) that the world countries should produce grains ( ) instead
of weapons. They should alleviate ( P ) hunger. The grain production M ) is too
small to fulfi (t/u2) the needs of the population (G4T).
Write a cridcal appreciation of the poem.
Ans: The poem is symbolic (U). The grain stands for resources (U). The young ones of
the sparrow stand for the hungry. It teaches us that we should not produce weapons
)WeWe should produce food instead. ALIZ-4SSASfneiuA
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What
7. do you feel after reading the poem?
Ans: We feel that human resource should be used for the benefits (1AJiA) of humanity.
They should not be used for producing deadly ( ) weapons. The hunger should be
alleviated MAAyLJnLIunseiiadiUgLS
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THE HOLLOW MEN

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Poem With Translation & Explanation
MAIN IDEA
The poem is a group-song. The men gather and lament(t/U) thelr inactivity(d
They represent modern men. They lack ( t » S ) faith ( ) . They are spiritually

(du) dead. They lack spirit (q4), will and strength (), They art paralyzed
()physcally and spiritually. They are leading of Inertia
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a (0). They do not follow
the men of action. Ellot wants to say that it ls better to do evil than to do nothing.

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Reference: The lines have been taken from the poem, "The Hollow Men" by T. S. Eliot
Context: The poem shows the inactivity of modern men. They lack faith. They talk in
whispers (U). They lack spirit, will and strength. They do not follow the men of action.

Lines 1 -4
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Words B Meanings Synonymns
hollow LS valueless, worthless, useless, fruitless, meaningless
stuffed it DO
headpiece U mind, brain, sense, understandings
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straw A grass, husk, hay
We are the hollow (L) men
We are the stufted (-A)men
Leaning (2ng) together
Headpiece Ci) siled (upánuA with stra ().Alas!,
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-"learning"Jz"leaning" ST.s.Elot
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Explanation: The poem is a sort of dramatic
(U/). A group of Hollow Men stand
monologue
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together. They are just leaning against each other. Note
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paradox, the hollow
the men are stuffed (tLnL. euruhgLAABT
both whether
But in senses
they are hollow
stuffed,
theylack soul, spirit and strength. Their heads ae Ailled
or
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with straw, worthless dry stems and grass.
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Lines 5- 10
whisper Vt murmur, speak softly, speak gently
quiet i S silent, soft, hushed
meaningless a a senseless, empty, absurd
cellar base, basement, storage

Our dried (S) voices, when u(sAheijnlFsn

We whisper (utSU) together
Are guiet Cir) and meaningles (U) (ad»lequngðtrisheieti|
As wind ( ) in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken ( 2 r ) glass
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Explanation: The hollow men cannot talk bluntdy S SsLS
ASh). They can whisper only. Their whispers are 4iSLUESU
even meaningless (U4). Their whispers sound like the
sound produced by wind blowing through dry grass. Or
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their whispers sound like the sound produced by rats
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creeping over the broken pieces of glass in the dry and
dark cellar (2). Note the use of two similes one goleLungqUs*
after the other to enhance ( t ) the worthlessness
( ) of their hushed (U) whispers. -UiKULeink
Lines 11 -12
paralysed impotent, disabled, crippled
gesture iUis sign, signal, nod
motion DO

Shape (U) without form, shade (E) without colour,

Paralysed (&) force (3u), gesture Cu) without motion ()%

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Explanation: The hollow men's shape is without -PA"UursLs

form. They are deformed (U) splritually and physically.
They have no force. They are paralyzed. They pose to do
something but their gestures ( ) are mottonless ( ) -UvsVlUFALS
and still. They do not have the real spirit ( ) and ThigIeJ*&L
strength. They are hollow men, mere shadows ( -U
Lines 13 18
fierce, wild
violent iÍ. brutal, destructive, savage,

Those who have crossed (4G)

With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdonm 4SpitistnsnuusTfan
Remember us - if at all-(d)) not as lost

Violent CoH) souls (Unsho), but only

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The stuffed men
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Explanation:
active and energetie (
The people who had already died
) . They were strong and
were
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violent ()men. The hollow men say that the violent AnkLisuEUTe
people of the past do not remember them as men of -LSaLLUILI
action. They consider them as hollow and stuffed men. - 2 AtnLs
Eliot wants to say that being passive (U) is even worse
than being evil. What a dark message!
VOCABULARY
hollow having a hole or empty space inside, not solid, valueless
worthless, useless, unavailing, empty, fruitless, profitless,|
unprofitable, meaningless, insignificant
stuff strrs the material or substance out of which anything is or can be
made, raw material, matter, essence

head piece a covering for the head, mind, brain, sense, wit
whisper |speak softdy, murmur, mutter, speak gent
cellar underground room for storing things, base, basement ground
floor, larder, storage
SOLVED EXERCISES OF THE TEXTBOOK
1. Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
i Eliot calls men, ii. This poem, 'Hollow Men' has been written by
a) hungry (b) thirsty a) Keats (b)T. S. Elio
()hollow (d) cruel (c) W. B. Yeats (d) Byron
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he title of the poem by T. S. EIlot is iv. in the poem 'Hollow Men', We convey
(The Hollow Men (b) The Hollow Man
() The Hollow Woman
(d) The Hollow Women )nothing (b) something
(c) anything (d) a few words
Write down a critical note (critical
appreciation) of the poem.
The poem is about a
group of
Ans
JU) paralysed ( ) . They live
men wlo are
un-PasALu
mora in a state
dmLornssn- &
hefween life and death. They are
trapped (uLne)
the bank of River Styx, a boundary between the
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world of the living and the world of the dead.

cannot eross the iver to go to either hell or heaven.

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6. Glve the summary of the poem.
Ans A group of Hollow Men are leaning together. NKLngnsAVusLs
Their bodies and volces are dry. They are trapped on HLpm-g nsPL4

the bank of the River Styx. They cannot cross it. They L/den-Lnguw
have been too timid (Jz) to do any violent acts or
brave decds. Thus they have been refused to enter the
Lend-vMSouszn
underworld. --heLnspst
7. Why does the poet call modern men as hollow men?

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Ans: The poet says that modern men are lazy and inactive ( ) . They lack real force. They
are neither brave nor violent. So, the poet regards them as hollow men. 4 r / S *

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What does the poet say In the last stanza of the poem?
Ans: In the last stanza, the poet alludes (G_RJP) to JrKbUIUIJtyfisttsiT
ancient ( ) Greek myth (e6). Aceording to it the 3/unsunIVLN
souls of the dead had to cross the River Styx to go to
the underworld (0 3). The people with 'direct eyes' ¢tzd2E Tsu
were allowed to go to heaven. On the other hand, the TLSIT JreSL4
Hollow Men cannot go to hell even. If they had been LnzsiEuiSt»
violent and had done some evil deeds, they might have 4dLngJuucd/Lu
been allowed to go to hell across the river. Eliot wants
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to say that being passive is even worse than being evil.