Based on the poem, choose the correct option with reference to the two statements given below. Pick the option that enumerates what ‘noble natures’ would include. A person who is corrupt and manipulative. A person who uses evil ways to deceive others.ĭ. A person who seeks God’s help for all his problems.Ĭ. A person who is egoistic and looks down upon others.ī. Pick the option that is NOT an example of ‘unhealthy and o’er darkened ways.’Ī. Being dogged is what led him to negotiate the challenges. I was in jitters, seeing the boy trapped in the trench.ĭ. A chat with a close friend can take away our blues.Ĭ. The man paced about the room showing restlessness.ī. In which of the following options can the underlined words be replaced with ‘despondence’?Ī. Made for our searching: yes, in spite of all, Of all the unhealthy and o’er darkened ways Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth 3) Multiple Choice Questions based on an extract. With reference to this statement, which of the following options is NOT TRUE? 2) Keats celebrates trees as a “boon” in the poem A Thing of Beauty. Which of the following is an apt title for the extract? (2) is the reason for (1) and can be inferred from the extract. Both (1) and (2) can be inferred from the extract.ĭ. (2) can be inferred from the extract but (1) cannot.Ĭ. (1) can be inferred from the extract but (2) cannot.ī. On the basis of the extract, choose the correct option with reference to the two statements given below.Ī. When the poet says that ‘a thing of beauty’ will never pass into nothingness, he means that it is _.Īns. The benefits of a thing of beauty for humans include. What does the phrase ‘a bower quiet’ indicate? Choose the option that displays the same poetic device as used in the first line of the extract. Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing 1) Read the given extract to attempt the questions with reference to context.įull of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. Jim Rohn A Thing of Beauty Class 12 (Flamingo Chapter 3) Important Questions and Answers Side Note: A Thing Of Beauty from Endymion is excessively focussed on in my school curriculum.Success is the result of nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day. I see no particular significance or inclination towards that but it might be an element Keats may have wanted to utilize to describe beauty. I don't think there's any interpretation on “views of the afterlife“Īnd what might be the significance of the aquatic imagery ("fountain", "drink")? These tales are like water falling from heaven (like a waterfall) onto the Earth bring forth a perennial source of inspiration for generations to come. Is Keats referring to "tales" of an afterlife / immortality in heaven? If so, why are those "tales" an "endless fountain"? Because there are so many different views on life after death? Magnificent tales of their lives are a perennial source of inspiration (like water falling from a fountain or waterfall) to the mortals on earth to emulate their lives and stories of their victories and heroic deeds. What is Keats saying in the last three lines?ĭescribing beauty, Keats says that beauty is also experienced in the grandeur and magnificence of the deaths of the mighty and powerful knights and kings (perhaps, though unlikely, any person who fights and did for a noble cause) who made supreme sacrifices and died noble deaths. The waterfall comes from ‘heaven’s brink’, meaning that the myths have a divine quality, and it is ‘endless’ because the stories can be re-told over and again, as Keats proposes to do in the remainder of the poem. The ‘endless fountain of immortal drink’ is a metaphor in which the myths are compared to a waterfall, and reading to drinking. So if we take the ‘lovely tales’ to be the corpus of ancient myths, then ‘the mighty dead’ are the heroes of those myths, and the ‘dooms we have imagined’ for them are their tragic and heroic fates. Things of beauty include the natural world (‘the sun, the moon, trees old and young’ etc.), and also ‘all lovely tales that we have heard or read’, and by implication these tales must include the myth of Endymion. What is this argument? Well, first, ‘a thing of beauty is a joy for ever’, that is, a beautiful story is always worth re-telling second, a thing of beauty ‘moves away the pall from our dark spirits’, that is, it cheers us up. The only way to understand the word ‘Therefore’ in line 34 is that lines 1–33 consist of an argument as to why Keats should be happy to tell the story of Endymion. Therefore, ’tis with full happiness that I Lines 1–33 of ‘Endymion’ form an introduction to the story, which starts at line 34:
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