ENG-LEISURE NOTES

ENG-LEISURE NOTES

Questions and Answers.

Q1. Who is ‘we’ in the poem?

      The word ‘We’ in the poem refers to people who

      have no time to enjoy nature.

Q2. If the poet was living in a town, what would he see on

     the roads?

     If the poet had been living in a town, he would have seen

     traffic on the roads and people around him rushing

     to their work.

Q3. The words ‘No time’ are repeated seven times in the

     poem. What is the poet trying to say?

     The words ‘No time’ are repeated seven times in the

     poem to highlight that we humans are so busy in our

     daily work that we have no time to admire nature and

     its beauty.

Q4. What does the poet wish to see in his free time?

     In his free time, the poet wished to stand beneath

     boughs and stare for long like wandering sheep

      or cows. If he had free time, while passing through woods

     he would be able to spot where squirrels hid their nuts in

     grass. The poet would like to watch streams sparkling in

     broad daylight. He wished, he had the time to admire

      nature’s  beauty in its various forms.

Q5.What does ‘leisure’ mean in this poem?

    In this poem, the word ‘leisure’ means having free time

    to pursue one’s passion or to spend time with nature and

    admire its beauty.

Q6. How can we live a better life?

   We can live a better life by using our leisure time  creatively to

   strengthen and  admire the beautiful things around us.

Q7. Quote the lines from the poem where the poet poses a

       rhetorical question to his readers?

  The lines from the poem are:-

“What is this life if, full of care

 We have no time to stand and stare”

 Rhetorical question :- The poet asks a question to which he

 does not expect anyone to reply since the answer to it is

 very obvious. He asks whether life has any value if man

 cannot find the time to take a break from his hectic schedule

  and stare at nature.

Additional Questions.

1.Who is beauty compared to?

Ans Student’s response

2. Which ‘life’ is the poet talking about? What is it that we

  don’t have the time to do but the cows and the sheep have?

Ans The poet is talking about one’s extremely busy and

       Stressful life. We don’t have the time to stand and stare

        beneath the boughs like cows and sheep.

3.When and where can we see the squirrels hiding their nuts?

Ans  We can see the squirrels hiding their nuts in grass when

        we are passing by the woods.

4. How do the streams look in broad daylight?

Ans. The streams shine like stars in the night sky, in broad

       daylight.

5. Why does the poet say that we lead a poor

life?

Ans Student’s response

Fill in the blanks with the words given in the box:

(enrich, see, beneath, stare, poor life, glance)

1.In the poem, the different words associated with

sight are _______, _______ and ________.

2.The word ‘under’ means the same as _______

from the poem.

3.A good book can _______ your life and

encourage you to think.

4.According to W. H. Davies we lead a ________

because we do not appreciate nature.

FIGURES OF SPEECH

‘No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows.’ Simile – humans are compared to sheep or cows .

‘No time to turn at Beauty’s glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance.’ Personification – beauty is given the human quality of dancing.

‘We have no time to stand and stare’ Alliteration- repetitive effect of the word ‘s’