Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow:
There will come soft rains
(Sara Teasdale)
There will come soft rains
and the smell of the ground
And swallows circling with their shimmering
sound;
And frogs in the pool singing at night
And wild plum trees in tremulous white;
Robins will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims on a low fence wire;
And not one will know of the war,
not one will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
That mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself when she woke at dawn
Would scarcely know that we were gone.
Q.1.
What has happened to mankind in this poem?
(a)
All men have turned into nature lovers
(b)
Mankind has become extinct due to their incessant wars
(c)
Mankind had realised that nature does not want man to fight wars
(d)
Nature has become omnipresent and consumed all of mankind
Q.2. Do
the birds and animals care about what happened to man?
(a)
Yes, even the birds sing and whistle in honour of man
(b)
Yes, as nature and mankind co-exist forever in this world
(c)
No, nature continues with its processes even in man’s absence
(d)
No, nature never affected nor got affected by mankind’s presence
Q.3. What do you think is the message
Sara Teasdale is trying to convey?
(a)
We must turn into nature lovers
(b)
We must learn to appreciate the beauty of nature around us
(c)
Nature has many lovely elements such as rain, birds and animals
(d)
We are not indispensable; the world will live on even in our absence
Q.4. Identify the poetic device used in the
last four lines.
(a) Alliteration
(b)
Onomatopoeia
(c)
Mythology
(d)
Personification
Q.5. Identify antonyms of the following words
from the poem:
(a)
Abundantly
(b)
Thrived
EXTRA READING : Read Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
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