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Important Short Questions: (Alp Poems) 1. The Rain

This document contains short questions about several poems: 1. The questions ask about themes, symbols, and literary devices used in poems like "The Rain", "Loveliest of the Trees, the Cherry Now", "A Sindhi Woman", "Ozymandias", and "The Hollow Men". 2. The questions also cover the themes and messages of poems like "Rubaiyat", "God's Attributes", "The Delight Song", and "Love-An Essence of All Religions". 3. Finally, the questions analyze concepts in "In Broken Images" such as how people respond when facts fail them and the process of thinking.

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Important Short Questions: (Alp Poems) 1. The Rain

This document contains short questions about several poems: 1. The questions ask about themes, symbols, and literary devices used in poems like "The Rain", "Loveliest of the Trees, the Cherry Now", "A Sindhi Woman", "Ozymandias", and "The Hollow Men". 2. The questions also cover the themes and messages of poems like "Rubaiyat", "God's Attributes", "The Delight Song", and "Love-An Essence of All Religions". 3. Finally, the questions analyze concepts in "In Broken Images" such as how people respond when facts fail them and the process of thinking.

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IMPORTANT SHORT QUESTIONS

(ALP POEMS)
1. THE RAIN
Q1. What does the poet mean by the rich leaves?
Q2. What does the poet mean by the poor leaves?
Q3. What will happen after the rain stops?
Q4. What is the central idea/theme/message of the poem “The Rain”?
Q 5. How can a rainy day be enjoyed?
Q 6. Describe the use of personification in the poem “The Rain”.
Q 7. Describe the scene after the rain.

3. LOVELIEST OF THE TREES, THE CHERRY NOW


Q 1. Which is the loveliest of trees and why?
OR Why does the poet call cherry the loveliest of trees?
Q2. What is meant by “Wearing white for the Easter tide”?
Q 3. The cherry tree is covered with snow. What does it mean?
Q 4. Why does the poet decide to go to jungle?
Q 5. Why does the poet believe that he would live seventy years?
OR How many years does the Bible allow to live to a man?
Q 6. What is the central idea/message/theme of the poem “Loveliest of the Trees, the Cherry Now”?
Q 7. What is Easter?

6. A SINDHI WOMAN
Q1. How does the Sindhi woman walk? Or What is the Sindhi woman carrying on her head?
Q 2. What does the poet reflect when he sees the Sindhi woman?
Q3. What picture of the Karachi slums do we get after reading the poem?
OR Describe the Karachi slums.
Q 4. What is the most appealing quality of Sindhi woman?
Q 5.What is the central idea/message/theme of the poem?

8. OZYMANDIAS
Q1. What was the condition of the statue of Ozymandias?
OR What did the traveller see in the desert?
Q 2. What is the Central idea/theme/message of the poem?
Q3. What was written on the pedestal of the statue of Ozymandias?
Q4. Who was Ozymandias?
Q 5. Describe the use of irony.
Q 6. Describe the visage of Ozymandias.

10. THE HOLLOW MEN


Q1.Why does the poet call the modern men as hollow men?
Q 2. What is the Central idea/theme/message of the poem?
OR What has the poet described in the poem?
Q3. What does the poet mean by ‘gesture without motion’?
Q4. What does the poet mean by ‘head piece filled with straws’?
Q 5 What is the difference between ‘the hollow men’ and ‘stuffed men’?
Q6. Why does the poet compare our voices with the voice of wind in dry grass?
Q 7. Describe the use of oxymoron in the poem ‘The Hollow Men’.

12. RUBA’IYAT
Q 1. What is worse than slavery?
Q 2. What is the Central idea/theme of the poem? OR What has the poet described in the poem?
Q3. What is the present state of the Muslims?
Q 4.What cannot compete with the civilization of Makkah?
Q 5. Who was Abraham?
Q 7. What has made the efforts of the Muslims fruitless?
Q 8. What does the poet mean by ‘No feeling deeper than the skin’’?

16. GOD’S ATTRIBUTES


Q 1. What are the three attributes of God mentioned in the poem “God’s Attributes”?
Q 2. What does make one scared of sinning?
Q 3. What is the moral lesson of the poem?
Q 4. How do the attributes of God affect man’s character?
Q 5. Mention three more attributes of God.
Q 6. How are God’s attributes different from our own names?

17. THE DELIGHT SONG


Q 1. What do you understand when the poet says, “I am the shadow that follows a child”?
Q 2. How can the crust of the snow glitter?
Q 3. What is the dream of the poet in the poem “The Delight Song”?
Q4. What is the effect of man’s good relation with the earth and the lords?
Q5. What are the things that keep a person alive?
Q6. What is the theme of the poem?
Q 7. Optimism and pessimism are two attitudes of man towards life. Discuss.

18. LOVE-AN ESSENCE OF ALL RELIGIONS


Q1.Why does the poet put emphasis on love?
Q2. What is the effect of love? How can love change our lives?
Q3. Is life worth living without love?
Q4. What is the moral lesson of the poem?

20. IN BROKEN IMAGES


Q1. What is the state of two persons, one who trusts clear images and the other who mistrusts the broken images?
Q2. Why does a person question his senses when the facts fail him?
Q 3. Who is in a new confusion of his understanding?
Q4. What is the message/moral lesson of the poem?
Q 5. Write a note on the process of thinking.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
ASPIRE COLLEGE, OKARA

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