very important question answers of all 1 to 20 poems

1. Poem No.1
THE Rain (W.H. Davis)
 Short Questions & Answers.
Q 1: How can a rainy be enjoyed?
Ans: We can enjoy rain by exposing ourselves to the cool rain drops. We can enjoy a picnic on
the bank of a river. We can enjoy rain by plying games as well.
Q2: What is meant my rich leaves?
Ans: The rich leaves mean the thickly growing leaves. Actually, the rich leaves stand for the rich
people in the society.
Q3: What is meant by “the poor” in the poem, “the Rain”?
Ans: The poor leaves mean the thinly growing leaves. Actually, the rich leaves stand for the rich
people in the society.
Q4: How does the poet feel when he hears the rain falling on the leaves?
Ans: He says that the rain drops falling on the leaves create sweet music. The poet feels happy
to hear this sweet music of rain.
Q5: Write the main idea/theme of the poem, “the Rain”.
Ans: The rain fall on the leaves. From the top leaves, the rain water falls drop after drop on the
lower leaves. It produces sweet music. The sun shines bright after the rain. Everything looks
bright in the sunshine. It becomes a lovely sight.
Q6: What is the symbolic importance of the poem “Rain”?
Ans: Here rain symbolizes the blessings of Allah. The rich leaves stand for rich people and poor
leaves for poor people. Allah has blessed rich people with riches. They must give some money
to the poor.

2. Poem No.2
Night Mail (W. H. Auden)
 Short Question & Answers
Q 1: What is meant by “Night Mail”?
Ans: It means the train that brings mail.
Q 2: What does the “Night Mail” bring?
Ans: It brings cheques and the postal orders and latter.
Q 3: For whom does the “Night Mail” bring mail?
Ans: It brings mail for every one. It brings letters for the rich and for the poor. It brings letters
for the shop at the corner and for the girl at the next door.
Q 4: What is personification?
Ans: When non-living thing are regarded as living thing, they are said to be personified. For
example, the plate runs; the train snorts etc.
Q 5: What is meant by blank-faced coaches?
Ans: It my either mean the empty seats of the train. It may mean the dull and drab colour of the
coaches of train.
Q 6: What is the reaction of the birds at the arrival of the train?
Ans: At the arrival of the train, the birds keep sitting in the bushes. They do not fly in fright.
They just turn their beaks and see the blank faced coaches of the train.
Q 7: What is the reaction of the sheep-dog on the arrival of the train?
Ans: It shows no reaction. It continues to take a rest on its paws.
Q 8: What happens when the train passes by the farm?

3. Ans: When it passes by the farm, it awakes no one. Only the jug in the bedroom begins to shake
a bit.
Q 8: Why do the people on the farm not awake on the arrival of the train?
Ans: They are habituated to the noise of the train. Its noise does not disturb them. Therefore,
they continue to sleep.
Poem No.3
Loveliest of Trees, The
Cherry Now (A. E. Housman)
 Short Questions & Answers.
Q 1: What time of the year mentioned in the first stanza?
Ans: The time mentioned in the first stanza is “Easter tide”. It is spring (Loveliest of Trees, The
Cherry Now).
Q2: How cherry has been personified?
Ans: It has been personified. It is wearing white dress. It has just got ready to celebrate Easter.
Q3: What is Easter?
Ans: It is Christian holy day. The Christian remember the death of Christ and his return to life.
Q4: Why does the poet believe that he would live seventy years?
Ans: In Christian, the average age life of man is seventy years. The poet hopes to live this period
of life.
Q5: What is the theme of the poem, “Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now”?

4. Ans: The poet says that man’s life is too short to enjoy the beauties of nature. Here cherry
stands for the beauty of nature. The poet wants to go to the woods to enjoy the beauty of
nature in the short span of his life.
Q6: What does the poet mean by “of my three score years and ten”?
Ans: According to the Bible, a man lives about seventy years in this world. The poet is referring
to this age of him. Three score and ten years mean seventy years.
Q7: Why does the poet call cherry the loveliest of trees?
Ans: The cherry is in full bloom. It is covered with white flowers. It seems to be dressed up for
Easter. As it looks very beautiful, the poet calls it the loveliest of trees.
Poem No.4
O Where are You
Going? (W. H. Auden)
 Short Question & Answers
Q 1: What kind of feelings does the poet create in the minds of his readers?
Ans: The poet gives us the lesson of courage and valour. He urges us to be ready to have any
adventure. The fears are for cowards only. We get ready to take bold steps.
Q 2: How do you feel after reading the poem?
Ans: We feel excited and thrilled. We get ready to accept any challenge. We become
courageous and brave.
Q 3: What does the title of the poem signify?

5. Ans: The title of the poem signifies a sense of alarm. We suddenly feel that we are going in the
wrong direction and someone is trying to stop us.
Poem No.5
In the Street of the
Fruit Stalls (Jan Stallworthy)
 Short Questions & Answers
Q 1: What are the feelings of the poet standing in the dark?
Ans: The poet is sad and gloomy. He is standing in the dark street. He is pondering over the
hard realities of life. He presents a contrast with the happy children.
Q 2: Why has the poet used ‘cannonballs’ to describe the fruits?
Ans: The poet is sad. He is the aware of the miseries of life. He takes no interest in the charms
of life. Even the glowing fruits look like ‘cannon balls’ to him.
Q 3: Make a list of fruits described in the poem.
Ans: Melon, guava and mandarin are mentioned in the poem.
Poem No.6
Sindhi Women (Sindhi Woman)

6.  Short Question & Answers
Q 1: What did the poet reflect when he saw the woman?
Ans: The poet reflects that only those who carry the load of life can walk gracefully. He thinks
that hardships polish man. Man should learn to do his duties honestly.
Q 2: What kind of a picture of the Karachi slums do we get after reading the poem?
Ans: It is place where there are lying stones. The heaps of garbage are lying here and there. The
pieces of broken glasses are lying there all this shows the backwardness of the Karachi slums.
Q 3: What is the most appealing quality of Sindhi woman? OR Which quality of the Sindhi
woman appeals to the poet?
Ans: The most appealing quality of Sindhi woman is that she walks gracefully. Though she
carries a jar on her head, there is no ripple in her walk.
Poem No.7
Times
 Short Question & Answers
Q 1: What is Ecclesiastes?
Ans: It is a book of the Bible known as Ecclesiastes. It is attributed to Solomon. It consists largely
on reflections on the vanity of human life.
Q 2: What does the title of the poem, ‘Times’ means?
Ans: The title of the poem ‘Times’ indicates the value of time. It teaches that we should do
everything as its proper time.
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7. Poem No.8
Ozymandias (P. B. Shelley)
 Short Questions & Answers.
Q 1: What kind of feelings does the poem create in the reader’s mind?
Ans: The poem teaches that nothing is immortal. Everything vanishes in the crushing pressure
of time. It teaches that we should not be proud of our heroic deeds.
Q 2: What did the traveller see in the desert?
Ans: The poet saw a statue. Its vast legs were standing in the desert. Its head was lying on the
sand. It was shattered and broken. It had decayed under the crushing pressure of time.
Poem No9
The Feed (Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi)
 Short Question & Answers
Q 1: What does the sparrow hold in her beak?
Ans: She holds a grain of millet.
Q 2: How many young ones are to be fed?
Ans: Ten young ones are to be fed.

8. Poem No.10
The Hollow Men (T.S. Eliot)
 Short Questions & Answers.
Q 1: Give the summary of the poem.
Ans: A few men mourn their laziness. They are without zeal and spirit. They lack force. They
speak in meaningless whispers. The poet names them as hollow men.
Poem No.11
Leisure (William Henry Davis)
 Short Questions & Answers.
Q 1: What message does the poet give in the poem “Leisure”?
Ans: We live a busy life. We have no leisure to enjoy the beauties of nature. The poet criticizes
us for this sort of attitude. He says that we should have spare to enjoy the prevailing beauty.
Q 2: What beauties of nature do we miss in hurried life?
Ans: Owing to our hurried life, we miss a lot of beauties of nature. We have no time to sit
under the shady trees, to see the dancing feet, starry streams and the smiling lips.
Poem No.12

9. Ruba’Iyat (Allama Muhammad Iqbal)
 Short Questions & Answers.
Q 1: Who was Abraham?
Ans: He was Prophet of Allah. He was thrown into fire for preaching the message of
Allah. But Allah saved him there.
Q 2: What is worse than slavery?
Ans: To have no faith is worse than slavery.
Q 3: Who cannot compete with the civilization of Makkah?
Ans: As the people of Europe do not have any Makkah, they cannot be united.
Therefore, they cannot compete with the civilization of Makkah.
Q 4: What has made the efforts of the Muslims fruitless?
Ans: The Muslims do not love God. They do not follow Allah’s orders. They have lost
their warm and spiritual feelings. Therefore, their efforts remain fruitless.
Poem No.13
A Tale of Two Cities
 Short Questions & Answers.
Q 1: Why did the people of the two cities look powerless and helpless?
Ans: Atom bombs were dropped on them. Everything was destroyed. Thousands of men died in
no time. Those who survived were powerless and helpless.
q 2: Describe the circumstances the victims had to pass through.

10. Ans: Everything was destroyed. All the beautiful things and eatables were smashed. The people
were in terrible condition. They could do nothing but weep and wail. They were powerless and
helpless.
Q 3: Describe the scene of devastation.
Ans: Everything was destroyed. All the flowers and flavours were smashed. Thousands of
people died in no time. Those who survived were left in terrible pain. They were powerless and
helpless.
Poem No.14
My Neighbour Friend Breathing
His Last! (Bullah Shah and translated by A. R. Luther)
 Short Question & Answers.
Q 1: When does a person remember God?
Ans: Usually, man remembers God in a crisis. He remembers Him when he sees someone dying.
He requests Him to help him when he is helpless.
Q 2: What is the effect of the death scene?
Ans: Usually a death scene is pathetic. It arouses the feelings of grief. The poet is also sad and
shocked at the death of his spiritual guide. He feels a stabbing pain in his heart. He does not
want to live in this world anymore.
Q 3: Why does a person feel helpless on the death of a friend?
Ans: Death is hard reality. This is the final end of life. When a person sees a dear one dying, he
feels sad and helpless. He can neither die with him nor prevent the death of him. He only feels
sad, helpless and shocked at the death of his friend.
Q 4: Without whose love is Bullah in loss?

11. Ans: Bullah is in loss without the love of God and his spiritual guide.
Poem No.15
He Came to Know
Himself (Sachal Sarmast)
 Short Questions & Answers.
Q 1: Why does the put emphasis on how to know himself?
Ans: The knowledge of ‘self’ is the knowledge of God. Love leads to the knowledge of ‘self’.
Therefore, the poet gives importance to the knowledge of self and tells us how to acquire it.
Q 2: What makes one entangled in love?
Ans: Man needs to know himself. The poet tells us that love leads to the knowledge of ‘self’.
Therefore, man gets himself entangled (involved) in love with this end in view.
Q 3: Why did Mansur mount the gallows?
Ans: Allah lives in the hearts of pious humans in the form of love. Allah blessed Mansoor with
His Love. His heart began to glow with Divine Light. He forgot himself. He easily mounted the
gallows to please Allah.
Q 4: What is the bare Truth?
Ans: Allah lives in the form of love in the hearts of pious humans. Thus their hearts began to
glow with Divine Light. They discover this Divine Light in everything they see. The poet says that
the presence of this Divine Light on earth is true.

12. Poem No.16
God’s Attributes
(Jalaluddin Rumi and translated by Dr.Nichalson)
 Short Questions & Answers.
Q 1: How many attributes of God are mentioned in the poem?
Ans: Three attributes of God are mentioned in the poem. They are that God is the ‘knowing’,
the ‘Seeing’ and the ‘Hearing’.
Q 2: What makes one scare of sinning?
Ans: God is all ‘seeing’. He sees every one all the time. This stops one from sinning.
Q 3: What are effects of the attributes of God?
Ans: God attributes urge us to do good deeds or stop us from evil deeds. For example, God is
the ‘knowing’. It urges us to get knowledge. It stops us from evil deeds as God knows
everything.
Q 4: Mention three more attributes of God.
Ans: The Gracious, the Merciful, the Forgiving.
Poem No.17
The Delight Song (N. Scott Momaday)

13.  Short Questions & Answers.
Q 1: What do you understand when the poet says, “I am the shadow that follows a child”?
Ans: A child is usually free, playful and lively. He behaves like a king. He does not entertain any
worry. He always enjoys pure pleasure. The shadow here stands for an image. The line suggests
the poet’s pure pleasure.
Q 2: How can the crust of the snow glitter?
Ans: The beams of light fall upon the crust of snow. They reflect and the snow begins to glitter.
The glittering rays of sunshine on the white surface of snow look very lovely and gorgeous.
Q 3: What is the dream of the poet?
Ans: Dream is beauty, charm or excellence beyond reality. When the poet says that he is the
dream of all beautiful things, he presents himself to be an embodiment of all lovely and
charming things of nature.
Q 4: What is the effect of man’s good relation with the earth and the lords?
Ans: By having good relation with the earth and the lords of the earth, man becomes happy and
delighted. His life becomes beautiful and fruitful.
Q 5: What are the things that keep a person alive?
Ans: A person’s good relations with earth, its lords and its beautiful and fruitful things keep him
alive and happy.
Poem No.18
Love-An Essence All
Religions (Dr. Nichalson)

14.  Short Question & Answers.
Q 1: What is the effect of life?
Ans: Love exerts very positive effect. It can change thorns into roses, vinegar into sweet wine,
stake into throne, misfortune into fortune, burning fire into pleasing light, stone into butter and
grief into joy.
Q 2: Is life worth-living without love?
Ans: The poet says that the love is the essence of all religions. The poet displays the tender and
warm feelings of love. He says that the without love life would be dull, drab and dreary.
Poem No.19
A Man of Words And
Not of Deeds
(Charles Perrault and translated by Robert Samber)
 Short Questions & Answers.
Q 1: How does the life of a man pass through different phase of it?
Ans: The poem is about a man who is talkative. Such a man talks all the time. He does no good.
With the passage of time, his faculties begin to rust. He passes through the processes of ruin.
Finally, he is spiritually dead.
Q 2: What happens when life is spent with the help of deeds and not of words?
Ans: The life, full of words with no deeds, is useless and worth-nothing. Such a life leads to
ultimate ruin.
Q 3: What does the garden look like when the weeds start growing?

15. Ans: The garden that is full of weeds bears no fruit. It is useless and worth-nothing. It is not
better than barrenness.
Poem No.20
In Broken Images (Robert Graves)
 Short Questions & Answers.
Q 1: What is the state of two persons, one who trusts clear images and the other who mistrusts
the broken images?
Ans: One person has clear images. He trusts his clear images and assumes facts. He gets
confused when his facts fail him. On the other hand, the poet has broken images. He mistrusts
his images and finds the truth.
Q 2: Why does a person thinks that his sense when the facts fail him?
Ans: The quick person thinks that his findings are accurate. When his findings prove wrong, he
gets confused and questions his senses.
Q 3: Who is in a new confusion of his understanding?
Ans: The quick person trusts his clear image. He thinks that his findings are accurate. When his
findings prove wrong, he gets confused of his understanding.
Q 4: What is the moral lesson of the poem?
Ans: The poem tells us that we should not assume facts. We should make a thorough research
to find out the facts. This sort of struggle ends our confusion and makes us sharp.
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