LEISURE

 LEISURE

Q: What do you understand by the word 'care' in the first line?

Answer: 'Care' in the first line means to look at the beauties of nature and enjoy them.

Q: What does the poet mean by the phrase 'stand and stare'? Pick out the correct answer from the three alternatives given below: It means -

(a) Looking at things unblinkingly.

(b) Looking at the beauties of nature aand enjoying them.

(c) lost in thought looking at nothing.

Answer: (b) Looking at the beauties of nature and enjoying them.

Q: What is that sheep and cows do for which we have no time?

Answer: Sheep and cows have time to stand and stare but we don't have any time for that,

Q: What does the poet think we need time for in 

Lines 5 to 6

Lines 7 to 8

Answer: Lines 5 to 6: We need time to see the squirrel hide their nuts in the grass.

Lines 7 to 8: We need time to turn at Beauty's glance and watch her dancing feet.

Q: In the seventh line the poet spells the word 'beauty' with a capital letter 'B'. "No time turn at Beauty's glance". Does it refer to a beautiful girl or to the beauties of nature or to both?

Answer: Beauty could refer to both the beauties of nature and a beautiful girl.

Q: Who is 'her' in line no. 9?

Answer: Here, 'her' means Beauty.

Q: The line 'till her mouth can enrich that smile her eyes began' means that;

(a) a rich women smiles with her eyes.

(b) eyes and mouth smile together.

(c) Beauty's smile begins from the eyes and spreads to her lips.

Answer: (c) Beauty's smile begins from the eyes and spreads to her lips.

Q: What according to the poet is a poor life?

Answer: A poor life, according to the poet, is a life. which is so full of worries that we have no time to relax and enjoy the beauties of nature.

Q: Who is 'we' in the poem?

Answer: 'We' refers to the human beings who have no time to look and enjoy the beauties of nature.

Q: Which worrds have been repeated six times in the poem? Why?

Answer: "No time" are the words which have been repeated six times in the poem. The phrase "No time" has been repeated to emphasize the idea.

Q: Find out the rhyming words from the poem.

Answer: care -- stare, bough -- cow, pass -- grass, glance -- dance, can -- began