Sea Fever By John Masefield Textbook Question And Answers Class 10 English WBBSE Solutions

Sea Fever By John Masefield Textbook Question And Answers Class 10 English WBBSE Solutions

1. Choose the correct alternative to complete the following sentences:
(a) The poet asks for a sail the colour of which would be
i) blue
ii) grey
iii) black

iv) white

Answer: iv)
b) While going down to the sea, the poet wants to hear the crying of
i) seagulls
ii) cuckoos
iii) eagles
iv) swallows

Answer: i)
c) The wind on the sea is like a whetted
i) sword

ii) axe

iii) knife

iv) spear

Answer: iii
2. State whether the following statements are True or False. Provide sentences/
phrases/words in support of your answer:
a) To steer the ship the poet needs the moon.

Ans: False.

Supporting statement: “And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.”

b) The call of the running tide is wild and clear.

Ans: True.

Supporting statement: “The call of the running tide is a wild call and a clear call.”

C) The poet is going out to the sea for the first time.

Ans: False.

Supporting statement: “I must go down to the seas again.”

3. Answer the following questions:

(a) During what time of the day does the poet wish to go down to the seas?
Ans: At night the poet wishes to go down to the seas.

b) What kind of day does the poet prefer for sailing?
Ans: A windy day With flying white clouds across the sky for sailing is the day a poet prefers.

c) What does the poet prefer to hear from a fellow rover?
Ans: The poet prefers to hear a merry yarn from a fellow rover.

Grammar in Use:

4. Do as directed:
a) What a shocking sight! (change into an assertive sentence)

Ans: It is a very shocking sight.

b) I am sure of his success. (change into a complex sentence)

Ans: I am sure that she will succeed.

c) Snigdha is not only wise but also brave. (change into a simple sentence)

Ans: Snigdha is wise and brave.

6. Write a newspaper report (within 100 words) on the incident of burglary in a flat in Kolkata using the following points:

date and place -time – occupants of the house- number of robbers-list of articles stolen-police investigation.

Kolkata, Sep 15 in a flat near salt lake burglary took place..The robbers took away 4 lakhs cash and all the ornaments that were bought for the marriage. The police informed that the family went shopping and when they returned they saw their damage. They told me that it happened between 6 pm to 9 pm. There were 8 members in the family and the whole family went out near 6 pm and completed their dinner and came back at 9:30 pm. After they returned they saw their door was open and when they entered saw one vase broken. The almirah and drawers were open and the locker was broken inside the almirah. All the ornaments inside the locker were stolen and a heavy amount of cash was missing. The police started their investigation and hopefully, all the robbers will be caught soon.

Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind Poem Class 10 English WBBSE Solutions

Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind Poem Class 10 English WBBSE Solutions

Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou art not so unkind
As man’s ingratitude;
Thy tooth is not so keen,
Because thou art not seen,
Although thy breath be rude.
Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
Most freindship if feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then heigh-ho, the holly!
This life is most jolly.

Freeze, freeze thou bitter sky,
That does not bite so nigh
As benefits forgot:
Though thou the waters warp,
Thy sting is not so sharp
As a friend remembered not.
Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then heigh-ho, the holly!
This life is most jolly.

On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer By John Keats Class 10 English WBBSE Solutions

On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer By John Keats Class 10 English WBBSE Solutions

Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-brow’d Homer ruled as his demesne;
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He star’d at the Pacific—and all his men
Look’d at each other with a wild surmise—
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

Lead Kindly Light Poem Class 10 English WBBSE Solutions

Lead Kindly Light Poem Class 10 English WBBSE Solutions

Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom,
Lead thou me on!
The night is dark, and I am far from home,–
Lead thou me on!
Keep thou my feet; I do not ask to see
The distant scene,–one step enough for me.
I was not ever thus, nor prayed that thou
Shouldst lead me on:
I loved to choose and see my path, but now
Lead thou me on!
I loved the garish days, and, spite of fears,
Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.

So long thy power hath blessed me, sure it still
Will lead me on;
O’er moor and fen, o’er crag and torrent, till
The night is gone;
And with the morn those angel faces smile
Which I have loved long since, and lost awhile.

The Slave’s Dream Poem Class 10 English WBBSE Solutions

The Slave’s Dream Poem Class 10 English WBBSE Solutions

Beside the ungathered rice he lay,
His sickle in his hand;
His breast was bare, his matted hair
Was buried in the sand.
Again, in the mist and shadow of sleep,
He saw his Native Land.
Wide through the landscape of his dreams
The lordly Niger flowed;
Beneath the palm-trees on the plain
Once more a king he strode;
And heard the tinkling caravans
Descend the mountain-road.

He saw once more his dark-eyed queen
Among her children stand;
They clasped his neck, they kissed his cheeks,
They held him by the hand!—
A tear burst from the sleeper’s lids
And fell into the sand.

And then at furious speed he rode
Along the Niger’s bank;
His bridle-reins were golden chains,
And, with a martial clank,
At each leap he could feel his scabbard of steel
Smiting his stallion’s flank.

Before him, like a blood-red flag,
The bright flamingoes flew;
From morn till night he followed their flight,
O’er plains where the tamarind grew,
Till he saw the roofs of Caffre huts,
And the ocean rose to view.

At night he heard the lion roar,
And the hyena scream,
And the river-horse, as he crushed the reeds
Beside some hidden stream;
And it passed, like a glorious roll of drums,
Through the triumph of his dream.

The forests, with their myriad tongues,
Shouted of liberty;
And the Blast of the Desert cried aloud,
With a voice so wild and free,
That he started in his sleep and smiled
At their tempestuous glee.

He did not feel the driver’s whip,
Nor the burning heat of day;
For Death had illumined the Land of Sleep,
And his lifeless body lay
A worn-out fetter, that the soul
Had broken and thrown away!

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