The Bishop’s Co-Ed School Kalyani Nagar, Pune

Class: 8

Subject: English Literature

Worksheet 4

Poem 2: Invictus

Note: Answers to these questions must be written in the English Literature

notebook.

Question 1

Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
a] Describe the situation in which the poet is going through in the above lines. Why is it
filled with tears?

b] Name, identify and explain the figures of speech explained in the second line.

c] What does the poet want to convey in the last two lines of the given extract?

d] What is the main theme of the poem?

e] Do you feel that the thoughts and ideas can be applied in our lives? Justify.

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