A THING OF BEAUTY BY JOHN KEATS WORKSHEET

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A THING OF BEAUTY BY JOHN KEATS

WORKSHEET

Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow:

 Q.1 Such the sun, the moon,

Trees old, and young, sprouting a shady boon

For simple sheep; and such are daffodils

With the green world they live in; and clear rills

That for themselves a cooling covert make

 ‘Gainst the hot season; the mid-forest brake,

 Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms;

(i)                  Name the poem and the poet.

 

 

(ii)                How do trees provide happiness?

 

 

 

(iii)               Which figure of speech has been used in ’cooling covert’?

 

 

 

Q.2 A thing of beauty is a joy forever

 Its loveliness increases, it will never Pass into nothingness;

but will keep A bower quiet for us………..

(i)                  ‘A thing of beauty is a joy forever’. Explain

 

 

 

 

(ii)                Why does a beautiful thing not ‘pass into nothingness’?

 

 

(iii)                What does the poet mean by ‘a bower quiet for us’?

 

 

 

Answer the following questions in 30- 40 words each.

Q.3 What impression do the things of beauty make on us? Is it temporary or permanent?

 

 

 

 

 

Q.4 Describe the symbols that have been used to relate the beauties of nature? Why are they an everlasting source of joy?

 

 

 

 

 

 Q.5 What makes man love life in spite of all miseries and sufferings?

 

 

 

 

 

 


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