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What does the poet say about a habit in the first stanza?
Answer. 1. A habit is a sticky thing,Much good or evil it can bring; It binds a victim, holds him fast, And keeps him in a vise-like grasp
Why does the poet use we in line 1?
(a) Why does the poet use ‘we’ in line 1. Ans. The poet uses the word ‘we’ in order to refer to all the parents and the poet himself who are unaware of the bad effects of television which is affecting their children’s future and killing their precious time.
What message does the poet give in the poem?
We should strive to keep human values alive. We should keep our desires and hatred to check. Desire can be controlled by being satisfied and happy with what one has.
What is the poet trying to say about life through his poem?
Answer: The message in Charlotte Brontë’s poem “Life” is that we should be hopeful rather than hopeless and optimistic rather than pessimistic.
What makes the poet tremble?
Answer. Answer: the thought of the greatness of earth and smallness of human make poet tremble.
What does the poet mean by open thine eyes?
What does the poet mean by ‘Open Thine eyes’? Answer: The poet means to say that we should understand the fact that if we want to please god we must work hard in sun and shower.
Is the unforgiving minute a metaphor?
In the poem, “the unforgiving minute” is a metaphor for the amount of time people have to live. That minute, the total time people have to live, is unforgiving because time doesn’t give anyone a second chance. Once a second (60 seconds in a minute) passes, it is gone forever.
What does the poet say about life?
In the first stanza the poet wants to say that one must not waste his life sitting idle or sleeping but he must be able to enjoy every moment of life, as life is full of dreams to be completed. We must not take life lightly and pessimistically. He further adds that soul is dead for the inactive people.
What is antithesis in Shakespeare?
An antithesis is the setting of one word (or group of words) against another word (or group of words) with an opposite or contrasting meaning. Famous examples of antithesis in Shakespeare are: To be, or not to be. . . His disgrace is to be called boy; but his glory is to subdue men.
What does the poet tell us about dreams?
Answer: The poem ‘If” by Rudyard Kipling contains many moral values that might change a person to be a ‘man of the Earth’. Meaning,dreams should not be your only aspirations, goals, or thoughts.
What is the idiotic thing why is it called idiotic?
Answer. The television is referred to as the idiotic thing that the poet advises not to install. Children sit glued in front of the television full time that they forget the art of playing or carrying out tasks expected from them. Reading also takes a backward curve.
Why does the poet repeat the word never?
Answer: The poet has employed capitalisation in some places in the poem ‘Television’ to mark the most important messages he wants to convey. Dahl wants to warn us against the excessive watching of television and then to suggest the better alternative in the form of reading books through his poem.
What is the poet trying to say in these lines?
Answer: The poet wants to make people strong at hearts. His desire is that they should be bold enough to face the challenges of life. When we have strong houses, we can protect ourselves from the angry wind.
What is ghastly junk referring to?
Answer: The word ‘ghastly’ means terrible or very bad. Poet says that the children sit and stare at the television screen until their mind is filled with those horrible junk content which is of no use and which corrupts the imaginative and creative faculty of their mind.