A thing of beauty

4. Cynthia “The moon goddess”

6. The Poet
John Keats

7. 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, and
a sleep
Full of sweet dreams,and
health, and
a quiet breathing.
The poem

9. Q.1.What is the poet’s opinion about a thing
of beauty?
Q.2What do you understand by “Its loveliness
increases’it will never pass into nothingness”?
Q.3What do you mean by a bower?
Q.4.What does a bower give us?
Q.5.Find words in the above lines which
mean:
1) the quality of a thing that gives pleasure to
the senses (2) shady trees (3) emptiness
Q,6. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

10. Lines Written in Early Spring
By William Wordsworth
 I heard a thousand blended notes
 While in a grove I sat reclined
 In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
 Bring sad thoughts to the mind
 The birds around me hopped and played
 their thoughts I cannot measure
 But the least motion which they made
 aIt seemed a thrill of pleasure

11. Q.1 Rearrange the lines in proper order:-
Pass into nothingness; but will keep
Full of sweet dreams, and health and quiet breathing.
Its loveliness increases,it will never
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
A thing of beauty is a joy forever

12. Home Work
 Write a paragraph of about 150
words
 1) Conservation of trees
 2) Nature – The Best Healer
 3) Write two quotations on Beauty.

13. 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,

14. Rich with a sprinkling of fair
musk-rose blooms,
And such too is the grandeur
of the dooms
We have imagined for the
mighty dead ;
All lovely tales that we have
heard or read;
An endless fountain of
immortal drink
Pouring unto us from the
heaven’s brink.

15. Explain: ‘the grandeur of the dooms’
What is the source of the ‘endless fountain
of immortal drink’ ?
What is the effect of that immortal drink on
us ?
Find words which mean i)magnificence
ii)stories iii)that never dies iv)edge

16. Therefore on every morrow,are
we wreathing
A flowery band to bind us to the
earth,
Spite of despondence,of the
inhuman dearth
Of noble natures,of the gloomy
days,
Of all the unhealthy and over-
darkened ways
Made for our searching yes,in
spite of all,
A wreathe of flowers

17. Q.1What are we doing everyday?Why?
Q.2What are some of the unhealthy habits we possess?
Q.3.What do you understand by “spite”?
Q.4.What do you understand by “despondence"? What do
you understand by “spite of despondence”?
Q.5What do you understand by “dearth”?
Q.6.Give an example of noble nature?
Q.7.Mention some of the unhealthy habits ?
Q.8.What is the consequence of these habits?
Q.9.Name the figure of speech used in “Therefore -------are
we wreathing”.Explain
Q.10.What is the figure of speech used in the third line?
Q.4 Find words from the passage which mean:
(1)malice (2)unhappiness(3)(4)scarcity(5)possessing dignity

18. How is our sadness removed ?
Find words in these lines conveying same as
:1)shroud 2)sadness
How does nature help in raising our spirits ?

19. Some shape of beauty moves away the pall
From our dark sprits . Such the sun,the moon,
Trees old, and young, sprouting a shady boon
For simple sheep;

20. About the Poet
John Keats(1795-1821) Keats was a
British Romantic poet.He had a
power to sway & delight The
readers.The following is an excerpt
from his poem “Endymion:A poetic
Romance”.
Other poems of Keats are:Ode to
Spring, An ode to a Grecian Urn,e.t.c.