SAMACHEER - ENGLISH- 9 STD - POEM - Be glad your nose is on your face

1. Unit II - Poem
Be Glad your Nose is on
your Face
- JACK PRELUTSKY

2. About the Poet
 Born in Brooklyn, Newyork
in 1940
 Author of more than 50
anthologies
 Anthology means a
collection of poems
JACK PRELUTSKY

3. If you have Nose like this
How will you feel?

4. Uses of organs
We see with our …
Eyes
We hear with our …
Ears
We taste with our …
Tongue
We sense with our …
Skin
We smell with our…
Nose

5. How will you feel if your nose is
displaced in some other place ?
Have you ever felt that nose is an
unnecessary and unwanted organ ?

7. I
Be glad your nose is on your face,
not pasted on some other place,
for if it were where it is not,
you might dislike your nose a lot.
Pasted – Stuck / fixed
Eg: Nose is pasted on the head
Nose is stuck on the head
Nose is fixed on the head

8. you would feel uncomfortable

9. II
Imagine if your precious nose
were sandwiched in between your toes,
that clearly would not be a treat,
for you’d be forced to smell your feet.
Precious
Highly Valuable, Worth, Esteemed
Life is precious
Sandwiched
Pressed between two things.
The baby is tasting a sandwich

10. •If it is sandwiched between
your toes,
•you would be forced to smell
and it would not be a fair treat.
•When will you be forced to
smell your feet?
•when it is sandwiched
inbetween your toes.

11. III
Your nose would be a source of dread
were it attached atop your head,
it soon would drive you to despair,
forever tickled by your hair.
Dread
Fear, Terror, Awe
He has a dread of hospitals
Despair
lose hope , Despondency
She is in great despair
Tickled
slightest touch which causes laughter

12. •If it is placed on your forehead, it will be tickled
by your hair
•When would nose become a source of dread?
When it is placed on the top of the head.

13. •If it is sandwiched between your toes, you would
be forced to smell and it would not be a fair treat.
•When will you be forced to smell your feet?
• when it is sandwiched in between your toes.

14. IV
Within your ear, your nose would be
an absolute catastrophe,
for when you were obliged to sneeze,
your brain would rattle from the breeze.
Catastrophe
Sudden calamity, Sudden disaster
Rattle
inharmonious noises
Nepal faced a dreadful
catastrophe
Angry son rattled the door.

15. NOSE WITHIN EAR
If it is within your ear,
It will be an absolute catastrophe
Your brain will rattle when you sneeze
What is meant by catastrophe?
Sudden calamity
Pick out the word which denotes inharmonious noises
(a)rattle (b)battle (c)shuttle

16. V
Your nose, instead, through thick and thin,
remains between your eyes and chin,
not pasted on some other place -
be glad your nose is on your face!
- Jack Prelutsky

17. (i) ____________ is the apt place for the nose.
a)Toes b)forehead c)between eyes and chin c)ear
(ii) Find out the idiom given in the first line
Thick and thin

18. Rhyming words found in the poem
Face – place
Not – lot
Nose – toes
Treat – feet
Dread - head
Words of alliteration “th”
Your nose, instead, through thick and thin

19. Be glad your nose is on your face,
not pasted on some other place,
for if it were where it is not,
you might dislike your nose a lot.
Rhyme scheme employed in this poem is
aabb
a
a
b
b

20. A DIAMONTE POEM
Noun
Adjective Adjective
V+ing V+ing
V+ing
N-1 N-2 N-3
N-4
V+ing V+ing V+ing
Adjective Adjective
Noun
Nose
Sharp Beautiful
Smelling Inhaling
Exhaling
Sneeze Irritation Sight
Lovely
Seeing Pleasing Viewing
Elegant Attractive
Eyes