Question Answers For All Chapters – Balbharati English Class 7
From a Railway Carriage
ENGLISH WORKSHOP-Solutions
1. Read the poem aloud with proper rhythm. What does the rhythm remind you of ?
Answer: The poem “From a Railway Carriage” by Robert Louis Stevenson is meant to capture the fast-paced, rhythmic experience of riding on a train. When reading this poem aloud, you’ll notice a lively, rapid rhythm created by short lines and quick rhymes, mimicking the movement and sounds of a train as it speeds along the tracks.
The rhythm of this poem might remind you of:
- The chugging and rattling of a moving train.
- The quick flash of scenery passing by the train windows, as fields, trees, and people rush by in a blur.
- The excitement of travel and the thrill of moving quickly from place to place.
2. Find pairs of rhyming words from the poem.
Answer:
- witches – ditches
- battle – cattle
- plain – rain – again
- eye – by
- scrambles – brambles
- gazes – daisies
- road – load
- river – ever
3. Write the following :
(1) The sights seen through a railway carriage mentioned in the first stanza.
Answer: The sights seen through a railway carriage mentioned in the first stanza are bridges, houses, hedges, ditches, horses, and cattle in the meadows.
(2) The sights mentioned in the second stanza.
Answer: The sights seen in the second stanza are hills, plains, and painted stations.
(3) The sights mentioned in the third stanza.
Answer: The sights mentioned in the third stanza are a child clambering and scrambling to gather brambles, a tramp gazing at the train in wonder, and green creepers for stringing the daisies.
4. Think and answer:
(1) Why are the sights said to ‘fly’ ?
Answer: The sights are said to ‘fly’ because the poet is sitting in a fast-moving train and all the beautiful scenes he gets to see as glimpses just rush past him and disappear because of the speed of the train.
(2) Does the last line make you happy or sad ? Why?
Answer: The last line ‘and gone forever’ makes me feel sad because all the pleasure and happiness got from enjoying the beauty of nature comes to an end and disappears forever as the railway carriage speeds ahead.
5. List the lines that begin with ‘Here’ or ‘And here’.
Also list the sentences or phrases that begin with ‘And there’.
These phrases and sentences tell us about things that appear one after the other as the carriage moves. Can we tell which ones are closer to the train and which ones are at a distance ? How?
Answer: The lines that begin with ‘Here’ or ‘And here’. ‘Here’ is an adverb which suggests ‘closeness’ of an object.
- Here is a child.
- Here is a tramp.
- Here is a cart.
- Here is a mill.
The above phrases show closeness to the train. ‘There’ is an adverb which suggests ‘distance’ of an object.
- And there is the green.
- And there is a river.
The above phrases show distance from the train.
6. Read the following:
- Charging along like troops in a battle.
- Fly as thick as driving rain.
Using your imagination, write one or two comparisons each with –
- like ______
- as ______ as
Answer:
like ______
- This house looks like a castle.
- Her cheeks are red like a rose.
- He runs like a horse.
- The child chattered like a magpie.
as ______ as
- He is as smart as a fox.
- He is as big as an elephant.
- He is as funny as a monkey.
- Our soldiers are as brave as lions.
7. Write about the sights you may see from a bus or an aeroplane. You may write it in the form of a short poem.
Answer: The Red Bus
I’m out sightseeing on the red bus
With people around making a lot of fuss
I know I’m going to see wonderful sights
That’ll soar me to the heights
The greenery
The scenery
Oh! The wonderful luxury
Of traveling in the red, red bus.
8. Find and read other poems of R. L. Stevenson using the internet. Find other rhythmic poems about trains, in English or other languages.
Answer: Some poems which you could refer to:
- The railway train by Emily Dickinson.
- Train Journey by Judith Wright.
- In the train by James Thomson.
- Railgadi by Harindra Nath Chattopadhyaya.
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