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Class : 10th
Subject‌: English
Poem Name : I am the land

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3. I AM THE LAND

Multiple Questions:
1. “I am the land. I wait.” Here ‘I wait’ suggests the feeling of
a. annoyance b. joy c. patience d. disgust
2. “A chain line necklace Chokes me now” Here ‘chain line
necklace’ refers to
a. a garland b. a fence c. trees d. grass
3. “You cannot put a fence Around the Planet Earth” The speaker
here is showing a tone of
a. weakness b. patience c. excitement d. self assertion
4. Which line tells that the earth is asserting itself?
a. you shout, I lie patient b. you say you own me c. you cannot
put a fence around the planet earth d. you buy me
II. Answer the following questions in a word/phrase/a
sentence
1. Who do you think is the speaker of the poem ‘I am the land’?
Ans: The speaker is ‘mother earth’.
2. You cannot put a fence around the planet earth” What is the tone
of the speaker?
Ans:It is the tone of self assertion.
3. “I wait” is repeated in the poem. What quality of the speaker is
highlighted?
Ans: The word “I wait” highlights the speaker’s patience.

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4. Who is the speaker referring ‘you’ in the poem ‘I am the land’?
Ans:‘you’ in the poem are the people/human beings.
III. Answer the following questions in 2-3 sentences.
1. “I wait” is repeated five times in the poem. What quality of the
speaker is highlighted with this repetition?
Ans:Human beings are troubling the earth. They say that they own
the lands proclaim that the land is theirs. Mother earth has an
ocean of patience and bears all the cruelty committed by man.
2. Bring out the contrast between the speaker and the reader in the
poem, “I am the land”.
Ans: The speaker in the poem is land. It says that it is always
patient and bears all that is done to it. The reader uses the land in
many ways. He digs the land, grows fruits and trees and even fights
for land.
3. What are the activities which go on over the land?
Ans: Man buys land, digs land and plants trees, grows fruit on it.
Children dance and play on land. Man also fences and makes
boundaries over the land.
4. “You cannot put a fence around the planet Earth” Is this tone of
weakness or self assertion? Give reason for your answer.
Ans: It is a tone of self assertion. The poet mocks at those who are
greedy. They wage wars to acquire more land. The earth has given
everything to us. Whatever injustice we are doing, the earth bears
everything patiently. We cannot put a fence around the mother
earth.
IV. Read the following extracts and answer the
questions given.
1. “Then someone tickles me, plant life ............. fruit”
a. What does tickle mean in the context? Ans: According to the
context tickle mean to plough the land.
b. What is the mood of the speaker in the statement? Ans:The
mother earth waits patiently when the people plough the land, plant,
trees and grow fruits.
2. “You come with guns a chain link necklace chokes me now”.

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a. Why do they come with guns?Ans: The soldiers come with guns
fighting for the land.
b. What is the feeling of the speaker? Ans: People fight with guns
for the land and mother earth feels suffocated with the action of
men.
3. “You cannot put a fence Around the planet earth”
a. What is the tone of the speaker here? Ans: It is a tone of self
assertion
b. Why does it feel so?Ans: The speaker mocks at the people who
wage wars and build fences on the land to divide nations.
V. Answer the following question in 8-10 sentences
1. Summary OR How does the poet describe that the earth has an
ocean of patience in the poem, “I am the land”.
Ans:The poem ‘I am the land’ is written by Marina de Bellagenta. In
this poem the poet depicts the mother earth as the speaker. Mother
earth tells that she waits with patience when people claim that the
land belongs to them. They occupy the land, plough, plant trees,
grow fruits and grass. The children dance and play on the land. The
land bears everything without a complaint. The soldiers come with
guns fighting for the land. People build fences on the land to divide
nations which suffocates like chains in her neck. But mother earth
mocks at the people’s behavior with a tone of self assertion.

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