Title 2 Wind.pdf ✅

Wind I. ANNOTATION WITH COMPRHENSION QUESTIONS Read the extracts given below and answers the questions that follow each: 1. Wind, come softly. Don’t break the shutters of the windows. Don’t scatter the papers. Don’t throw down the books on the shelf. There, look what you did-You threw them all down. You tore the pages of the books. You brought rain again. Questions 1. What does the Wind do to the buildings? 2. What does it do to the books? 3. Why does the poet ask the Wind to come softly? Answers 1. The Wind harms the building by breaking the stutters of the windows. 2. The Wind destroys the books by scattering them and tearing their pages. 3. The poet asks the Wind to come softly as it is a destroyer of things. 2. You’re very clever at poking fun at weaklings. Frail crumbling houses, crumbling doors, crumbling rafters, Crumbling wood, crumblimg bodies, crumbling lives, Crumbling hearts— The wind good winnows and crushes them all. (Page 30) Question 1. How does the Wind make fun of weak things? 2. What aspect of the Wind is seen in what he does? 3. What divine form does it assume and what for? Answers 1. The Wind makes fun of various weak things by breaking them. These are like houses, bodies, hearts, forests etc. 2. The destroying aspect of the Wind is seen here. He destroys weak things that come his way. 3. The Wind becomes ‘god’ and ‘winnows’ the things that come his way.


Q3. How does the wind bring rain? Ans. The wind sometimes comes in the form of the storm. Then, it blows very violently. It brings the clouds with it. These clouds, very often, cause rain. After the rain it is all quiet. Q4. The wind god “winnows and crushes them all.” How? Ans. Winnowing means blowing a current of air through grain to remove the chaff from it. In the same way, a strong wind in the form of storm removes all sorts of weak thinks. But it leaves only those only those who are strong and can face it .It can’t do anything to it. Q5. According to the poem , ‘Wind’, do consider wind asa our servant or master or neither. Give reasons. Ans. The wind is neither our servant nor master. It does what it likes. A strong wind does not like the weak. So it does away with all things that are weak. But it helps the strong to flourish. Q6. What should we do when the wind does not listen to us? Ans. The poet says if the wind does not listen to us we should build strong homes. We should join the doors strongly. We should make our body strong and heart firm. Q7. What do you feel about ‘the wind tease the weak? (Imp.) Ans. I feel that wind does tease the weak. It crushes the weak homes and doors. It does not spare weak bodies or weak hearts. It causes great difficulties for them. It is an enemy to the weak. Q8. How does the wind deal with fires? Ans. The wind blows out weak fires. But it makes the strong fires roar and flourish. It blows out the lamp. But a big becomes bigger when the wind blows. Q9. Subramania Bharati says: ‘We praise him every day’. Whom do we praise and why? Ans. We praise the wind every day. We praise it because it gives us strength. It is the source of life for all living things. As long as wind is our friend, it is very good. So we praise it daily. IV. LONG ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS Q1. Describe how the poet shown the power of the wind as given in ‘wind’. What moral does the poet draw? Ans. The poet describes the raw force of the wind in this poem. The wind is thus a symbol of power or force. When the wind blows it breaks the shutters of the windows. It throws down the books on the shelf. It tears the pages of the books. In doing so the wind makes fun of the weak things. It makes fun of weak and crumbling houses, doors, forests and hearts. It not only makes