Question Answers For All Chapters – Balbharati English Class 7
The Brook
ENGLISH WORKSHOP
2. Find the meaning of the following words or phrases :
• ridges • brimming • eddying • babble • fallow • trout • netted
Answer:
- ridges: a long, narrow mountain range
- brimming: be full to the point of overflowing
- eddying: move in a circular way
- babble: to make murmuring sound of water flowing over stones or meaningless talking/sound made when ones talk loudly
- fallow: uncultivated land
- trout: A big freshwater fish
- netted: Form of a net.
3. Answer the following :
(1) Who is the speaker in this poem?
Answer: The brook is the speaker in this poem.
(2) Which lines are repeated in the poem? What do they mean?
Answer: The lines ‘For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever’ are repeated. They mean that nature is immortal whereas we are mortal. Men are born and will die but nature is eternal.
(3) Where does the brook join the river ?
Answer: The brook joins the river near Philip’s farm.
(4) Mention the various places that the brook flows past.
Answer: The brook flows past the dwellings of coot and hern, the ferns, a town, villages, valleys, hills, ridges, several bridges and Philip’s farm.
4. Spot and write any three alliterative phrases or sentences from the poem.
(Alliterative phrases/sentences are those in which the same sound is repeated.)
Answer:
- I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance. Sound of ‘s’ and ‘g’ is repeated.
- I bubble into eddying bays. I babble on the pebble. Sound of ‘b’ is repeated.
- By many a field and fallow. Sound of ‘f’ is repeated.
5. List the prepositions you find in this poem.
Answer: from, among, to, in, with, etc.
6. List the phrases which have the expression ‘many a ……..’.
Answer: many a curve, many a fairy foreland, many a silvery water break.
7. The poet uses words to create pictures or ‘images’ in the reader’s mind. For example, ‘ And sparkle out among the fern.
‘ Write down other lines that create images or pictures in your mind. (Any 3)
Answer:
- By twenty thorpes, a little town An half a hundred bridges.
- By thirty hills I hurry down, or slip between the ridges.
- I make the netted sunbeam dance Against my sandy shallows.
8. Write a short autobiography of a brook. (20 to 30 lines)
Autobiography of a Brook
I took origin among the mountains and glaciers in the lap of a slopy snowy terrain as a bubbly ever youthful brook. Many others joined me making me look bigger. I express my happiness by dancing and jumping as I flow down the valley. I am ever so glad to help birds and animals to quench their thirst. The trees in the valley are so grateful to me that they honour me by showering flowers upon me.
As I reach the plains, I slow down. My calm within and outside, inspires many great poets to offer their literary best. I am obstructed by many boulders, but I do not stop. I find my way by flowing around them. By the time I meet the big river, many small rivulets have formed from me. But now, their number is decreasing,.
I hear that the rains are often scanty. If this goes on, I might not exist at all in the future. I have served mankind for as long as I know. I plead with you all to plant more trees and preserve and protect nature for our mutual well being. Help us to survive and continue to serve you.
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