Gujarat BoardĀ GSEB Solutions Class 9 English Second Language Poem 1 The River Textbook Exercise Questions and Answers.
GSEB Class 9 English Textbook Solutions Poem 1 The River (Second Language)
GSEB Class 9 English The River Text Book Questions and Answers
Comprehension
1. Give the opposites.
(1) louder X softer
(2) faster X slower
(3) broad X narrow
(4) deep X shallow
(5) wider X narrower
2. Add a rhyming word.
(1) dancing, glancing, prancing
(2) leaping, sweeping, reaping
(3) motion, ocean, commotion
(4) arrow, narrow, borrow
(5) time, prime, lime
3. Answer the questions.
Question 1.
What is the destination of the river?
Answer:
The ocean is the destination of the river.
Question 2.
Why does the poet compare the river with a child in the first stanza?
Answer:
The poet feels that like a playful child, the river sparkles bright as it flows, dances over the pebbles and glances through flowers and foliage.
Question 3.
Describe the movement of the river.
Answer:
The river swells and rushes on louder and faster. It is brawling and leaping over the rocks. It is sweeping by the rose-banks like careless youth.
Question 4.
Why does the poet compare the sea with eternity?
Answer:
The sea can never be measured. It is endless. So the poet compares it with eternity
Question 5.
What does the word āstillā mean In
āSeeming still – yet still in motionā?
Answer:
In āSeeming still – yet still in motionā, the word āstillā has two meanings:
(1) In āseeming stillā, it means motionless.
(2) In āyet still in motionā means even now
Read the following stanzas and answer the questions.
(1) River, river, little river
Bright you sparkle on your way;
Oāer the yellow pebbles dancing,
Through the flowers and foliage glancing,
Like a child at play.
Question 1.
What does the river do over the pebbles
Answer:
The river goes dancing over the pebbles.
Question 2.
Through what does the river glance?
Answer:
The river glances through the flowers and foliage.
Question 3.
To whom is the river compared?
Answer:
The river is compared to a playful child.
Question 4.
Write the rhyming words in the stanza.
Answer:
way-play, dancing-glancing
(2) River, river, swelling river!
On you rush through rough and smooth;
Louder, faster, brawling, leaping,
Over rocks, by rose-banks sweeping
Like impetuous youth.
Question 1.
What does āswelling riverā mean?
Answer:
āSwelling riverā means a growing river.
Question 2.
How does the river flow over the rocks ?
Answer:
The river flows louder, faster, brawling and leaping over the rocks.
Question 3.
How does the river flow by the rose- banks ?
Answer:
The river is sweeping by the rose-banks.
Question 4.
To whom is the river compared?
Answer:
The river is compared to a careless youth.
Question 5.
Write the rhyming words in the stanza.
Answer:
smooth-youth, leaping-sweeping
(3) River, river, brimming river !
Broad and deep, and still as time;
Seeming still, yet still in motion,
Tending onward to the ocean,
Just like mortal prime.
Question 1.
What does ābrimming river mean?
Answer:
āBrimming riverā means an overflowing river.
Question 2.
Towards what is the river flowing?
Answer:
The river is flowing towards the ocean.
Question 3.
To whom is the river compared?
Answer:
The river is compared to a middle-aged man
Question 4.
Write the rhyming words in the stanza.
Answer:
time-prime, motion-ocean
Question 5.
Explain āSeeming still, yet in motion.
Answer:
āSeeming still, yet in motionā means the river appears to be motionless, but still it is flowing quietly.
(4) River, river, headlong river !
Down you dash into the sea,
Sea that line hath never sounded,
Sea that sail hath never rounded,
Like Eternity.
Question 1.
Where does the river dash into?
Answer:
The river dashes into the sea.
Question 2.
To what is the sea compared?
Answer:
The sea is compared to Eternity.
Question 3.
Why does the poet compare the sea to Eternity?
Answer:
The poet compares the sea to Eternity because the depth of the sea can never be measured and it keeps on flowing endlessly.
Question 4.
Write the rhyming words in the stanza.
Answer:
rounded-sounded
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