JKBOSE 10th Class English Solutions chapter – 5 Snowdrop

JKBOSE 10th Class English Solutions chapter – 5 Snowdrop

JKBOSE 10th Class English Solutions chapter – 5 Snowdrop

Jammu & Kashmir State Board JKBOSE 10th Class English Solutions

J&K class 10th English Snowdrop Textbook Questions and Answers

Snowdrop Summary in English

The snowdrop is a white-flowered plant. It gives bell-like flowers. It flowers when bitter winds are blowing and the ground is covered with snow. Sometimes the plant has to push its stem through eight inches of snow. The poet here uses the snowdrop as a symbol of fierce winter. He presents nature as very cruel and heartless in this season. The poet describes very briefly how winter restricts the movements of many creatures. Some of them almost reach the point of death. They no longer skip about or fly as they used to.

Snowdrop Summary in Hindi

कविता का संक्षिप्त परिचय
गुलचांदनी (स्नोड्राप) सफ़ेद फूलों वाला एक पौधा होता है । यह घण्टी के आकार वाले फूल देता है। इसमें फूल तब लगते हैं जब तीखी हवाएं चल रही होती हैं और धरती बर्फ से ढकी होती है। कई बार पौधे को अपना तना आठ इंच मोटी बर्फ़ में से ऊपर को धकेलना पड़ता है। कवि यहां गुलचांदनी को भयानक सर्दी के प्रतीक चिन्ह के रूप में इस्तेमाल करता है। वह प्रकृति को इस ऋतु में बहुत निर्दय और बैदिल होने के रूप में प्रस्तुत करता है। कवि बहुत संक्षिप्त रूप में वर्णन करता है कि किस तरह शीत ऋतु अनेकों जीवों की गतियों को सीमित कर देती है। उनमें से कुछ लगभग मृत्यु के किनारे पहुंच जाते हैं। वह अब पहले की भांति इधर-उधर फुदकने या उड़ने के योग्य नहीं रहते हैं।
LINEWISE WORD-MEANINGS AND EXPLANATIONS
Lines 1-8
Now is the globe shrunk tight
Round the mouse’s dulled wintering heart
Weasel and crow, as if moulded in brass,
Move through an outer darkness
Not in their right minds,
With the other deaths. She, too, pursues her ends.
Brutal as the stars of this month,
Her pale head heavy as metal.
Word-meanings: 1 globe— धरती – रूपी गोला, यहां इसका अर्थ गुलचांदनी के फूल से भी है जो कि आकार में गोल होता है; 2. shrunk— सिकुड़ा हुआ; dulled— धीमा पड़ा हुआ; 3. wintering heart– सर्दी से प्रभावित हुआ दिल; 4. weasel—वीजेल, कथियान्याल, मछली खाने वाला एक छोटा-सा जंतु; 5. moulded— सांचे में ढला हुआ; 6. other deaths— दूसरे जीव-जन्तुओं की मौत; 7. She— यहां इस शब्द का प्रयोग गुलचांदनी के लिए किया गया है; 8. pursues — प्राप्त करने की कोशिश करना; 9. ends — उद्देश्य; 10. brutal—निर्दय, क्रूर।
Explanation : It is the winter season. The whole earth seems to have shrunk tight due to the terribly freezing cold. The poet has perhaps used the word ‘globe’ for the snowdrop flower which has a round head. The cold winter has shrunk tight the head of this flower also.
Then the poet looks at a mouse and watches its miserable plight. The terrible cold has dulled the beat of this poor animal’s heart. The state of the weasel and the crow is also no different. Due to the bitter cold, they look as if moulded in brass. The bitter cold has restricted their movements. They can hardly make any movement in the open. Whatever little movement they make, it is all in darkness only because it is dark even during the day. The sun is hardly ever seen. These poor animals are not in their right mind due to the freezing cold. They can’t think what to do or where to find any shelter.
Now the poet looks at the snowdrop and talks of it. He calls it a she because it has the marvellous ability to bear flowers in such cold even. The snowdrop shows exceptional powers of survival. In spite of such cold, it keeps pursuing its ends. It can push its stem up even through the thick snow. It seems as brutal as the stars of this month. The stars in this wintry month don’t have any charm and arouse no emotions in the beholder’s heart. Similarly, the snowdrop with its drooping head fails to produce any emotion in the beholder.
शीत ऋतु है। बर्फ़ की भांति जमा देने वाली भयानक सर्दी की वजह से पूरी धरती सिकुड़ कर सख्त हो गई प्रतीत होती है। कवि ने शायद ग्लोब शब्द का प्रयोग स्नोड्राप फूल के लिए किया है जिसका सिर गोल होता है । ठण्डी शीत ऋतु ने इस फूल के सिर को भी सिकोड़ कर सख्त बना दिया है ।
फिर कवि एक चूहे को देखता है तथा इसकी शोचनीय हालत की तरफ ध्यान देता है । भयानक सर्दी ने इस बेचारे जानवर के दिल की धड़कन को धीमा कर दिया है। वीजल और कौवे की हालत भी कोई भिन्न नहीं है। भयानक सर्दी की वजह से वे ऐसे प्रतीत होते हैं मानो किसी पीतल के सांचे में ढाल दिए गए हों । भयंकर सर्दी ने उनकी गतियों को सीमित कर दिया है। वे खुले में मुश्किल से ही कोई गति कर सकते हैं। जो भी थोड़ी-बहुत गति वे करते हैं, यह सब केवल अन्धेरे में ही होती है क्योंकि दिन के समय भी अन्धेरा ही होता है। सूर्य मुश्किल से ही कभी दिखाई देता है। भयंकर सर्दी की वजह से ये बेचारे जानवर अपने ठीक दिमाग में नहीं होते हैं। वे सोच नहीं पाते कि क्या करें और आश्रय की जगह कहां ढूंढें।
अब कवि स्नोड्राप की तरफ देखता है और इसकी बात करता है । वह इसे एक मादा कहता है क्योंकि इसमें इतनी सर्दी में भी फूल पैदा करने की अद्भुत योग्यता है । स्नोड्राप जीवित बने रहने की अद्वितीय शक्ति का प्रदर्शन करता है। इतनी सर्दी के बावजूद भी यह अपने उद्देश्य को प्राप्त करना जारी रखता है। यह घनी बर्फ़ में से भी अपने तने को ऊपर धकेलने के काबिल होता है । यह उतना ही कठोर प्रतीत होता है जितने कि इस महीने के सितारे । इस शीतकाल के महीने में सितारे कोई आकर्षण नहीं रखते हैं तथा देखने वाले के दिल में कोई भावना पैदा नहीं करते हैं। उसी प्रकार नीचे लटकते हुए सिर वाला स्नोड्राप देखने वाले में कोई भी भाव पैदा करने में असफल रहता है ।
TEXTUAL QUESTIONS
Thinking about the Poem :
Q. 1. How has nature shrunk the globe ?
Or
Name the poet of the poem. How has nature shrunk the globe ? 
Ans. The name of the poet is Ted Hughes. Nature has shrunk the globe with its bitter cold. It has shrunk the globe tight. It has restricted the movement of all animals. They know no place of shelter. They live in the fear of death.
Q. 2. What has dulled the mouse’s heart ?
Ans. It is severe winter that has dulled the mouse’s heart. The mouse is generally a very lively creature. It remains very alert and keeps skipping about. But now due to the intense cold, it is feeling dull at heart. All its sportive activities have come to an end.
Q. 3. What sufferings do the animals undergo in winter?  
Ans. Animals feel very dull in winter. All their sportiveness comes to an end. They find no place of shelter. They see death all around them. They remain in the fear that death could come to them also any time. In their fear, they lose all their mobility. They seem to have been cast in a mould of brass.
Q. 4. Write a short note of 50-100 words on Hughes’s view of nature. 
Ans. Hughes presents nature as very cruel and heartless. It remains indifferent to the sufferings of poor little creatures. It goes on with its deadly course without caring what happens to the living and non-living things of the world. It restricts the movement of all creatures. It dulls their hearts. The poet gives here a message also. In nature, only those will survive who have the courage and determination to continue to live.
Q. 5. ‘Her pale head heavy as metal.’ Explain. 
Ans. Here the poet refers to the snowdrop flower. It is like a bell in its shape with a round head. The pale head is quite heavy. It keeps hanging down. It seems to be made of some heavy metal. But this heaviness and hardness of head is the secret of its strength. It is the secret of its survival even in the intense cold. This strength enables it to push its stem up even through the thick layers of snow. To the poet, the snowdrop is a symbol of the survival of the fittest in nature.
Q. 6. Pick out the images from the poem. (One is done for you.) 
(a) Nature          –         mouse,          weasel,        ……………              ……………
(b) Universe       –         globe,            ……………       ……………              ……………
(c) Metal            –         ……………
Ans.
(a) Nature       –      mouse, weasel, crow, snowdrop.
(b) Universe    –      globe, stars, outer darkness, deaths.
(c) Metal         –      brass.
Q. 7. Weasel and crow, as if moulded in brass.’ Explain the simile used by the poet. (2018)
Ans. It is intense cold. The poet sees a weasel and a crow. The bitter cold has restricted their movements. Now they have lost their usual sportiveness. They have become almost immobile. They look like things moulded in brass.
Q. 8. Assonance is the similarity in sound between two syllables that are close together. This sound is created either by the same consonants and different vowels (e.g. ‘hit’ and ‘heart’) or by the same vowels but different consonants (e.g. ‘back’ and ‘hat’). Trace two lines in which ‘ou’ sound is used. Also write down the words with ‘ou’ sound.
Ans.
Line 1 : Round the mouse’s dulled wintering heart.
Line 2 : Move through an outer darkness.
Words with the ‘ou’ sound : round, mouse, outer.
Q. 9. Alliteration is used especially in poetry. It means the use of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words that are close together, e.g.
(i) ‘Round the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran.’
(ii) ‘She sells seashells on the seashore.’
Pick out two examples of alliteration from the poem. 
Ans.
(i) wintering heart weasel and crow.
(ii) her pale head heavy as metal.
EXAMINATION-STYLE QUESTIONS
EXTRACT 1
Now is the globe shrunk tight
Round the mouse’s dulled wintering heart
Weasel and crow, as if moulded in brass,
Move through an outer darkness
Not in their right minds, …………
Questions
1. What has shrunk the globe and how ? 
2. What sufferings do the animals undergo in the poem / extract ? 
3. Write the meanings of : 
    (a) shrunk     (b) dulled.
4. Match the correct combination.
Expressions used in the poem To suggest that
(a) Globe
(b) Dulled wintering heart
(c) Moulded in brass
(i) ………………….
(ii) ………………..
(iii) ……………….
(i) frozen stillness of creatures (ii) snowdrop (iii) severe winter has reduced the functioning of heart (iv) severe winter cold (v) To have belief or confidence.
5. Give the name of the poem and the poet.
Answers
1. Nature has shrunk the globe with its bitter cold.
2. Animals feel very dull in winter. All their sportiveness comes to an end. They find no place of shelter. They see death all around them. In fear, they lose all their mobility.
3. (a) shrunk = became smaller
   (b) dulled = made slow or less lively.
4. (i) snowdrop (ii) severe winter has reduced the functioning of heart (iii) frozen stillness of creatures.
5. The name of the poem is ‘Snowdrop’ and the poet is Ted Hughes.
Or 
Questions
I. Identify the poetic devices used in this stanza. 
II. Complete the summary :
The poet describes in few words the way winter has reduced the (1) ………….He feels that the globe or world has (2) ……….. Many outdoor creatures have died. The sleeping field mouse is living with a reduced (3) ………… The movement of weasels and crows has been (4) ……….. by the coldness of winter. They are frozen with cold and are nearly (5) …………. The poet also describes very briefly how winter restricts the (6)  ………… of many creatures.
Answers
I. Metaphor and hyperbole are the poetic devices used by the poet in these lines. He compares the mouse’s heart with the globe and the comparison is quite exaggerated which makes the metaphor a kind of hyperbole. He adds that the intense cold has made the weasel and crow immobile. They look like things moulded in brass.
II.  (1) globe (2) shrunk (3) heartbeat (4) restricted (5) immoveable (6) movements.
Or
Questions
I. Complete the summary :
The poet tries to portray the heartlessness of nature in the (1) ……….. season. The poet looks at a mouse and watches its miserable plight. The state of the (2) ……….. and the crow is also no different. Due to the (3) ..………. cold, they look as if moulded in brass. The bitter cold has restricted their movements. The (4) ………….shows exceptional power of survival. In spite of such cold, it keeps  (5) …….. its ends. It can push its stem up even through the (6) ……… snow.
II. Study the following expressions given ahead, used by the poet. Choose the most appropriate suggestion for each expression and write the answer against each expression :
Expressions from the poem To suggest that
(a) Dwell
(b) Zest
(c) Trials
(i) ………………….
(ii) ………………..
(iii) ……………….
(i) abandon (ii) to live in a place (iii) tough tests (iv) eagerness (v) weakness
Answers
I. 1. winter 2. weasel 3. bitter 4. snowdrop 5. pursuing 6. thick.
II. (a) Dwell-to live in a place (b) Zest-eagerness (c) Trials—tough tests.
EXTRACT 2
Not in their right minds,
With the other deaths. She, too, pursues her ends.
Brutal as the stars of this month,
Her pale head heavy as metal.
Questions
1. Who are not in their right minds? 
2. Identify two poetic devices in these lines. 
3. Give the meanings of (a) Brutal (b) Pursues. 
4. In these lines the poet uses the sundrop as a symbol of …………. .
5. The poet of these lines is ……….. .
Answers
1. The poor creatures are not in their right minds due to the freezing cold.
2. The poetic devices of personification and simile have been used in these lines.
3. (a) Brutal = violent and cruel (b) Pursues = continues to achieve.
4. fierce winter.
5. Ted Hughes.
EXTRACT 3
Now is the globe shrunk tight
Round the mouse’s dulled wintering heart
Weasel and crow, as if moulded in brass,
Move through an outer darkness
Not in their right minds,
With the other deaths. She, too, pursues her ends.
Brutal as the stars of this month,
Her pale head heavy as metal.
Questions 
1. Below is the summary of the poem. Supply the missing words /phrases :
The snowdrop is a white-flowered plant. It gives bell-like ………… It flowers when ……….. winds are blowing and the ground is ………… with snow. Sometimes, the plant has to push its stem through ………… inches of snow. The poet here uses the snowdrop as a symbol of fierce winter. The poet ………..  nature as very cruel and heartless in this season. The poet also describes very briefly how winter restricts the ……….. of many creatures.
2. Choose from the given options an answer that fits each of the expressions. The first one is done for you.
Expressions used To suggest that
* Moulded in brass
* Other deaths
* Dulled wintering heart
* She, too, pursues her ends
* Frozen stillness of creatures compared to brass
*
*
*
* severe winter cold which is the cause of death.
* suffering of the animals.
* nature knows how to achieve her goals.
* frozen stillness of creatures compared to brass.
* severe winter that reduces the functioning of the mouse’s heart.
Answers
1. flowers ; cold; covered ; eight; paints; movements.
2. Other deaths – suffering of the animals; Dulled wintering heart – severe winter that reduces the functioning of the mouse’s heart; She, too, pursues her ends – nature knows how to achieve her goals.

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