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Warming Up
1. Make groups and discuss the following.
(a) What fatal dangers/problems did mankind face centuries ago, but are no longer a threat today?
Answer: Wild animals, lack of food, certain diseases, climate, etc.
(b) Name a few scientists/explorers/ social reformers / inventors / discoverers, who spent most of their lives to find solutions to some major problems/ setbacks that mankind faced.
Answer: Alexander Fleming, Edison, Ronald Ross, Christopher Columbus, Wright brothers, Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Galileo, Marie Curie, Savitribai Phule, Babasaheb Ambedkar, etc.
(c) Did they themselves suffer from those problems/setbacks?
Answer: most did not.
(d) What inspired them to spend the best part of their lives to research and share their findings?
Answer: A passion for the well-being of mankind, personal goals and aims, interest in the subject, curiosity, urge to improve the society and help others, etc.
English Workshop
1. Pick out words from the poem to fill in the web diagram. They should be related to the theme in the web.
Travel: Highway, journey, path, way.
Time around sunset: evening, close of day, twilight, eventide.
2. The entire poem is metaphorical (Implied comparison). Match the words in Column A with what they imply in Column B.
Answer:
(1) pilgrim – a dutiful man
(2) journey – life
(3) evening or close of day – old age
(4) chasm, deep and wide – threat to life
(5) building a bridge – solving a problem /getting rid of a threat to life
(6) pitfall – trap
(7) close of day – death
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A. Read the poem and write 3 qualities of each of the following.
The old pilgrim: old, experienced, helpful.
The fellow pilgrim: curious, puzzled, thoughtless.
The young pilgrim: young, frightened, inexperienced.
B. Answer in your own words.
(a) Why did the old man have no need to build the bridge, across the chasm?
Answer: The old pilgrim had already crossed the chasm and would never pass that way again. Hence, the old man had no need to build the bridge across the chasm.
(b) What explanation did he give to the fellow pilgrim for his thoughtful deed?
Answer: The old man said that though he had already crossed the chasm, there was a fair-haired youth who was about to pass that way. The old man was experienced and was not afraid of the chasm. However, the young man was inexperienced and the chasm could prove to be a pitfall for him. He too had to cross it at twilight, and the old man was building a bridge to help this youth.
(c) What message does the poem convey to all of us?
Answer: The message that the poem conveys to us is that we must be generous and unselfish and think of others. We must try to help others who are not as experienced as we are.
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A. Note the rhyming words in the first stanza: way – gray I wide-side- tide / dim -him.
AABCCBB is called the Rhyme Scheme of the 1stanza of the poem
B. Now write the Rhyme Scheme of the 2stanza and 3 stanza. Remember that a line in the 2nd or 3rd stanza may rhyme with lines in 1st stanza
too. You may use the same letter of the alphabet as used in the 1st stanza.
Answer:
Rhyming scheme of 2nd Stanza: DDAABB
Rhyming scheme of 3rd Stanza: EEAAFFCC
C. Find two lines from the poem that j contain the figure of speech ‘Inversion’.
(1) Came at evening, cold and gray, To a chasm, deep and vast and wide.
(The correct prose order Is: Came on a cold and gray evening to a deep and wide and vast chasm.)
(2) To the fair-haired youth, may a pitfall be.
(The correct prose order is : To the fair-haired youth, It may be a pitfall.)
Pick out one line each that contains the following figures of speech:
(a) Tautology: To a chasm, deep and vast and wide. The words vast and wide have similar meaning.
(b) Personification: A pilgrim, going a lone highway. The highway is given the human quality of being lonely.
(c) Interrogation: Why waste your time in building here? A question is asked to emphasise an idea.
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Imagine that you are the fellow – pilgrim and you wish to share your experience of the incident in the poem. Write a short article about it for a magazine / journal. Also convey what change it has brought in our life.
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