The document provides definitions for words like silhouette, furrows, reap, and grain. It then asks questions about a poem describing a sower, including how the sower performs his task, why grain is considered precious, and how the poet's view of the sower changes. It asks the reader to identify rhyming words and word pictures from the poem, and provides an assignment to write about a farmer's life.
17. How does the sower go about
performing his task?
18. The sower marches along
the plain to and fro. From
his hands he scatters the
grain everywhere
19. In normal circumstances pearls,
diamonds and rubies are referred as
precious. In this poem 'grain' is referred
to as precious. Why does the poet
consider grain precious?
20. The grain is precious because one day
it will grow into a full grown plant
suitable for harvest.Quenching the
appetite is the prime need of any living
being for which the grain is a
necessary. Therfore it is referred to as
precious.
21. The poet speaks of the Sower as 'old
and in rags' in the beginning of the
poem. How does this opinion change
towards the end of the poem? Pick out
the lines from the poem.
22. When the poet sees the sower for the first
time he seemed to him as 'old and in rags'.
But the sower's attitude to work and his
dedication impressed the poet very much.
When the poem ends the poet has great
admiration for the sower.
'Now his gestures to mine eyes are august' is
the line exemplifies it.
