10+2 English 100 marks

CONTENT

1.      Prose –

A.     Indian Civilization and Culture

~ Mahatma Gandhi

B.     Bharat is my Home

~ Dr. Zakir Hussain

C.     A pinch of Snuff

~ Manohar Malgaonkar

D.     I have a Dream

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

E.     Ideas that Have Helped Mankind

~ Bertrand Russell

F.      The Artist

~ Shiga Naoya

G.    A Child is Born

~ Germaine Greer

H.    How Free is the Press

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

I.       The Earth

~ H. E. Bates

J.      India Through Traveler’s Eye

~ Pearl S. Buck

K.    A Marriage Proposal

~ Anton Chekhov

2.      Poetry –

A.     Sweetest Love I Do Not Goe

~ John Donne

B.     Song of Myself

~ Walt Whitman

C.     Now the Leaves Are Falling Fast

~ W. H. Auden

D.     To Autumn

~ John Keats

E.     An Epitaph

~ Walter De La Mare

F.      The Soldier

~ Rupert Brooke

G.    Macavity: The Mystery Cat

~ T. S. Eliot

H.    Fire- Hymn

~ Keki N. Daruwala

I.       Snake

~ D. H. Lawrence

J.      My Grand Mother’s House

~ Kamala Das

3.      English, Essay & Others  

4. 

                                                                                        PROSE

English of 100 marks –

Prose

The Artist – Shiga Naoya

Q. Write the summary of the story ‘The Artist’.

            Ans. – ‘The Artist’ is a fascinating short story written by celebrated Japanese short story writer Shiga Naoya. In this story the writer has described how a budding artist of twelve years old only was misunderstood by elderly people and how his talent was damaged.

            Seibei, a school-going boy was unusually interested in gourds. Although he was a student of class six yet he did not care for his study. He bought long a symmetrical gourds. He made a neat hole at the top of the gourd and extracted its seeds. He filled the hole with tea-leaves so that it may not give unpleasant smell of the gourd. He then polished the gourd with the wine left by his father in the glass.

            Seibei had a passion for gourds in his leisure time he went out to the market place in search of beautiful gourds instead of playing with his friends. Here the writer has described a mistake which Seibei committed. In the market he was a bald elongated old man and took him for a gourd.

            Once Seibei was in his class and the teacher was teaching Ethics. Instead of listening to his teacher Seibei was polishing a small gourd. The teacher saw him and confiscated the gourd and gave it to the old porter of the school. The teacher not only chid him but he followed him to his house also. He warned his mother that such things should not be repeated. When his father returned, he gave a good thrashing to Seibei and asmashed all the gourds collected by him.

            Now Seibei turned to painting. Even for this work he was chidden by his father and the teacher. He bore his agony alone. He had no complaints against his father and the teacher. But he had artistic talent. The fact remain that the gourd which he bought at 50 yens, the same gourd was sold at 600 yens after giving it artistic talent.

            The story is very interesting and it has artistic coherence.  

English of 100 marks –

Prose

A Marriage Proposal – Anton Chekhov

Q. Write the summary of the story ‘A Marriage Proposal’.

            Ans. – Anton Chekhov a Russian writer has written the story ‘A Marriage Proposal’. In this story the writer has described a marriage – How this marriage took place and how it was broken.

            Choobookov was a gentleman. He was a good man. He wished for the welfare of others. He prayed to God to give sufficient food grains and water on the earth so that nobody should be hungry.

            Natalia was a girl whose parents died in her childhood. So her grandfather brought her up. When she became young, grandfather transferred all his properties on her name before he died. In course of time Natalia was married to a Youngman named Lomov. In the beginning Lomov treated Natalia as an ideal wife but soon the situation became reverse. Since he was a greedy man so he wanted to transfer all the properties of Natalia on his name. But Natalia was not ready to do so. A conflict started between the wife and the husband. The situation became so tense that Natalia had to leave the house of husband. She began to live in her grandfather’s house. When the neighbours of Natalia came to know about this incident. They wanted do something but they were unable to do anything. The life of Natalia became very miserable. When Chookbookov with the help of Natalia’s neighbours went to Lomove and wanted to make him understand. He explained that the grandfather of Natalia was a prestigious man and he helped his neighbours with body, mind and money. Then once again lomove became ready to accept Natalia an idle wife. Both the wife and husband began to live happily.

            It was Choobookov due to effort this marriage which was broken came on track.

English of 100 marks –

Prose

The Earth – H. E. Bates

Q. Write the summary of the story ‘The Earth’ by H. E. Bates.

            Ans. – H. E. Bates a modern writer of England has written this short story ‘The Earth’. This story is about a tenant farmer of village of England.

            According to this story Johnson was a tenant farmer. He had only a few Acers of land but he was very laborious and ploughed his field. Taking his little son Benji on his soulder, Johnson went his field and ploughed there. The son show the labour of his father with his eyes. In course of time Benji grew up and became a simple minded boy so Johnson was very anxious about.

            One day taking his son with him Johnson consulted a doctor. The doctor advised Benji to be engaged in any work all the time with this jeiw Johnson bought some hens to Benji and began to look after those hens. Soon the hen began to lay eggs and Benjy taking those eggs in a basket sold going from door-to-door. Johnson open a passbook in the name of Benjy in a bank to deposit money with that money Benjy bought more and more hens. Now carrying those eggs in a truck he supplied. In this way his earn a lot of money. To look after hens Benjy kept maidservant name Florence. Johnson was very happy to see the labour and progresses of his son. Because Benjy gave money to his father also. He was counted among the richest man in that locality. Now Benjy built building and sold them and at higher price. In course of time Benjy felt in love Florence and wanted to marry her. But his father Johnson opposed this marriage contrary to the wishes of his father Benjy got married Florence and she begin to live in the house of Benjy as his wife. Now she began to tall some things wrong to her husband against Johnson.

            One day on began persuaded by his wife Benjy kicked his father out of his house. The condition of Johnson became miserable, so he said that this is the earth own which a child growth does something in the world progress just as this world is nothing without this earth. So human life is dormant without wisdom and with this wisdom a man something in the world and progresses in life.

English of 100 marks –

Prose

India Through a Traveller’s Eie – Pearl S. Buck

Q. Write the summary of the prose ‘India Through a Traveller’s Eye’.

            Ans. – Pearl S. Buck in the short extract entitled ‘India Through Traveller’s Eye’ from ‘My Several Worlds’ describes how she was fascinated about India. It is because of fascination that she pays a visit to this country. Consequently she discusses the impression she gathered of India. In other words, she describes India as she has seen her and found her.

            The author clearly says that the purpose of her visit to India was not see the Taj Mahal or Fatehpur Sikri or the glories of empire in New Delhi although she saw see these things. She vicited India to see and listen to two groups of people, the young intellectuals in cities and the peasants in village.

            She met the young intellectuals in small rooms in cities. She heard their plan of independence. She found them angry because England had gone back on their promise to restore India to their people after the First World War. They thought that another was imminent.

            The author was shocked to see the condition of the peasants when she visited rural India. She found them the India peasants worse than that the Chinese. Only Russian peasants under the rules of czar could be compared with them.

            The author is very much impressed by Indian culture. Leadership in India, according to her, is horn out of renunciation. This was the secret of Gandhi’s leader. She comes to this conclusion after she finds a paralyzed old man lying on a raised bed being accorded respect by local people. They touch his feet and seek his advice an urgent matters of their family.

            Thus, Pearl S. Buck presents a vivid picture of India as she saw her and understood.

English of 100 marks –

Prose

A Child is Born – Germaine Greer

Q. Write the summary of the prose ‘A Child is Born’.

            Ans. – The essay ‘A Child is Born’ is written by Germaine Greer. In this essay, she has thoroughly examined the cultural peculiarities of the East and the West regarding child-birth and present-child relationship.

            The authoress explains the ways of managing child birth in traditional societies. According to Greer there are many ways. Some of them are diverse to one another. Their usefulness way he seen in the fact that they are culturally and collectively accepted. In this way their mother does not have mental burden to find out new ways of course of action. Some educated women are found a victim of superstitions and adopting old, unscientific method of delivery which is really had.

            In many societies women go to live with their mother-in-law from mother’s houses after marriage. It is and evident truth that such women do not become members of their family until they have born a child. In eastern countries woman would lose her own name and become known as the mother of her first born.

            There is a custom in Sylheti woman (woman belonging to Sylheti district of Bangladesh). If her parents are alive, she goes to her mother’s house for the last few months of her pregnancy and remains there about the first three months of the baby’s birth. There she gets a lot of love and care. In Bangladesh children under the age of five or six years are looked after by the whole family.

            The authoress says that the main obstacles for the modern western technology for reaching in huts and small cottage is poverty, still the cultural dominance of western technology has achieved its objectives.

English of 100 marks –

Prose

Indian Civilization and Culture – Mahatma Gandhi

Q. Write the summary of the prose ‘Indian Civilization and Culture’.

            Ans. – ‘Indian Civilization and Culture’ is a remarkable essay written by the great writer and philosopher Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Here Gandhiji presents the importance of our ancient civilization. No other civilization of the world can compare with our civilization.

            According to Gandhiji civilization is the manner of life. It comes from education and the society in which a man enteracts. It is made of living, conduct and behavior. The western civilization is inferior to India civilization because it is based on the worship of the material and the brute in human things.

            Gandhiji says that real happiness refers to a mind without conflicts. The mind in like a restless bird, the more it gets the more it wants, so the control on one’s wants is necessary.

            Mahatma Gandhi considers Indian civilization to be the best in the world. He points out that while Roman and Greek civilization perished, Indian Civilization continues to exist. The western countries change that India is averse to change and therefore they consider it to be a great demerit. Mahatma Gandhi considers this immovability a great merit.

            Gandhiji says that villages’ life is free from the evils of the modern civilization and the people take the joy of true Home Rule.

English of 100 marks –

Prose

I have a Dream – Martin Luther King Jr.

Q. Write the summary of the prose “I have a Dream”.

            Ans. – ‘I have a Dream’ is a remarkable speech of Martin Luther King Jr. He has the credit of raising the voice for equality and right for Negroes in the U.S.A. He reminds them that they are still regarded as slave in their own country. He exhorts them to take a pledge for fighting for their just rights. He has a dream to see Alabama as developed state. However he cautions them against any kind of physical violence. He asks him people to maintain good conduct and remain free from hatred and enmity. He wants them to continuous their fight for justice and equality. He hopes the nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed. He dream that one day even the state of Mississippi a desert state sweating with the beat of injustice will be transformed into an oasis of freedom.

     

  

             

     

  

                       

POETRY

English of 100 marks –

Poetry

Snake – D. H. Lawrence

Q. Write the summary of the poem ‘Snake’.

            Ans. – D. H. Lawrence a noted poet, novelist, essayist and short story writer has composed the poem ‘snake’. In this poem the poet has described how one bight he felt thirsty and got up to drink water. While he was moving towards the tap, he saw a snake coming out of the fissure of the earth. The poet was fascinated by the look and movement of the snake. Instead of killing the snake he began to watch its movement. Actually he began to like the snake. The snake moved towards the tap drank water and began to retire in the whole. A conflict seized the mind of the poet whether to kill the snake or not. The poet was confused. Sometimes he considered himself a coward, sometimes perverse and sometimes an honorable being. Finally when the snake entered partly in the hole, he killed it with a piece of log. Now he began to repent. He considered this act of his as paltry, vulgar and mean. He vegan to condemn human education that prompted him to kill the snake. He thought that he has done an albatross. To the poet the snake was like a king exile. To the poet the snake was like a king exile.

English of 100 marks –

Poetry

My Grandmother’s House – Kamala Das

Q. Write the summary of the poem ‘My Grandmother’s House’.

            Ans. – ‘My Grandmother’s House’ is a beautiful autobiographical poem composed by Indo-Anglian poetess Kamala Das. Most of her poems are autobiographical. Love and Sex are dominant theme of her poems. She has portrayed even the dark sight of human passion.

            In this poem the poetess has described how there was a bond of love in her grandmother’s house between her and her grandmother but she feels forlorn offer her death. To the poetess her grandmother’s house was an abode of love and intimacy. She enjoyed au restrained liberty there. Her life there was all happy. The house of her grandmother was full of books but the poetess was too young to read those books. After the death of her grandmother the house became lonely, bushes grew up and snakes began to move between the books and the house itself. Now the poetess wishes the same love and intimacy at stranger’s door. She is lonely and frustrated.

            This is a fine poem. The poetess has succeeded to express her feelings very beautifully in this poem. According to her love is a rare thing in the world of today.

English of 100 marks –

Poetry

To Autumn – John Keats

Q. Write the summary of the poem ‘To Autumn’.

            Ans. – John Keats, one of the greatest Romantic poets of English Literature has composed the poem ‘To Autumn’. Although Keats died only age of 26 years. Yet during this short spam of life. He was able to achieve greatness.

            Keats was a lover of Nature. In this poem ‘To Autumn’. The poet has described the beauty of Nature. He has revealed the principle of beauty in the nature. According to the poet, in the autumn nature looks beautiful everywhere. New leaves and fruits grow on trees. Birds sing in a fine tune. Wind blows friendly. There is neither the heat of summer nor the bitterly coldness of winter in the season. People are very happy. Mostly they have sound health. A man can do any work easily in this season. This season makes a man perfect. But the sun conspires with the autumn slightly as a friend. The rays of the sun makes the flasy, fat and tasty. Everywhere in the nature there is calm and cool in this season.

            In this way the poet has described the beauty of nature and characteristic spirit in a series of a memorable pictures in this poem.

English of 100 & 50 marks –

Poetry

The Soldier – Rupert Brooke

Q. Write the summary of the poem ‘The Soldier’.

            Ans. – ‘The Soldier’ is a beautiful Petrarchan sonnet composed by Rupert Brooke. In this poem the poet has described the bubbling sense of patriotism of a soldier who has gone to abroad to fight for his country. He says that if he dies in abroad, he will be buried there. But he feels that the piece of land where he will be buried, will always be England, his own country. The soldier has expressed his gratefulness to his country where got everything such as the road, the flowers, the English air, the English river, sunrays, etc. He has also expressed his obligation to his country for giving him noble thought, happy dreams and the laughter learnt of his friends.

            Since the poet himself was a soldier, so he has described the feelings of a soldier very beautifully in lucid/vivid language.

English of 100 marks –

Poetry

Sweetest Love I Do Not Goe – John Donne

Q. Write the summary of the poem ‘Sweetest Love I do not Goe’.

            Ans. John Donne, the great Metaphysical poet has composed the poem ‘Sweetest Love I do not Goe’. In this poem the poet has described his own love. If a man loves someone and it his beloved leaves him own the way of life. What he feels has been described in this poem by the poet.

            The poet loves someone to his beloved is so cute that no one can forget her. The poet is very happy. The poet’s love is one-sided. One day the poet goes to his beloved and express his love before her love. The poet become very sad and grieved. He decided to leave that place and goes to a far off place and from there he sighs. The poet promises that his would return his beloved very soon and his speed would be faster even than the rays of the sun and his beloved. Than the poet says that love is a way of life which teaches a man how to live. A man’s life is dull without love. A man’s life is dull without love. Love can changes the life style of a man. A man can do anything in the world. If he loves someone. Love makes a man’s journey speedier than before like the rays of the sun love lighter the life of a man. If teaches a man how to fight and how to life happily.

English of 100 marks –

Poetry

Song of Myself – Walt Whitman

Q. Write the summary of the poem ‘Song of Myself’.

            Ans. Walt Whitman is an American poet and also called the people poet has composed the poem ‘Song of Myself’. In this poem the poet has described about himself and about those person who quarrel among themselves. The poet does not consider even himself good he consider his soul good. The poet assumes those matters which are correct I true. He wonders that if a man gives trouble to another man, he becomes sorry as a spike comes and touches our skin. The poet says that all the persons of the world have come one after another and so all are related to one another. The poet further says that our life is the finished gift given by God so it should be lived happily so we should always try to be happy and make after be happy.

English of 100 marks –

Poetry

An Epitaph – Walter De La Mare

Q. Write the summary of the poem ‘An Epitaph’.

            Ans. Walter De La Mare a modern poet has composed the poem An Epitaph. He composed many poems related to children ghosts and gnomes. But this poem is different from those poems.

            In this poem the poet has described a beautiful lady. The poet loved that lady to the poet, no other lady in the western country was as beautiful as that lady. The poet was very glad. But unfortunately one day that beautiful lady departed from this world and with her death, her beautiful vanished. When the poet heard this sad news, he begin to weep bitterly after death that lady was buried since the poet had deep love for her so he began to visit her epitaph regularly to express his love. Then the poet said that if a man loves someone and if his be lobed live him on the way the problem with which he faces the poet is also facing the save problems. 

English of 100 marks –

Poetry

Now the Leaves are Falling Fast – W. H. Auden

Q. Write the summary of the poem ‘Now the Leaves are Falling Fast’.

            Ans. –‘Now the Leaves are Falling Fast’ is a simple but revealing poem by W. H. Auden.

                        In this poem the poet tries to show the crisis that has our taken modern life. He describes the slow dismantling of our aspirations. Our loneliness and our frustration against a very suitable background of autumn. Our rising aspirations are falling apart like leaves in autumn. Even the flower growing under big tress are not able to survive. Death lays its icy hand on all. The poet coins highly suggestive expression to refer to death such as ‘whispering neighbor’ and ‘pluck us from the real delight’. These two expressions suggest that human life is no better than death. In fact, it is life in death. The poet describes the situation of helplessness with the help of Trolls who are running for food without success. The shocked silence of the nightingale completes the image of death.

            The poem is a fine lyric.

English of 100 marks –

Group D

Q. Write the names of five great English poets:-

a)      William Shakespeare

b)      William Wordsworth

c)      John Keats

d)      John Donne

e)      Alexander Pope

f)       John Milton John Dryden

g)      H. W. Longfellow (Henry Wordsworth Longfellow)

h)      P. B. Shelley

i)        Matthew Arnold

j)        S. T. Coleridge

k)      William Copper

l)        Geoffrey Chaucer

m)    George Herbert

n)      William Blake

Q. Write the names of five Modern English poets:-

a)      Walter De La Mare

b)      D. H. Lawrence

c)      Keki N. Daruwalla

d)      W. H. Auden

e)      W. B. Yeats

f)       Kamala Das

g)      Rupert Brooke

h)      Rudyard Kipling

i)        T. S. Eliot

j)        Sarojini Naidu

k)      Toru Dutt

l)        Manmohan Ghosh

m)    Rabindranath Tagore

Q. Write the names of five great English dramatists:-

a)      William Shakespeare

b)      George Chapman

c)      Thomas Dekker

d)      John Webster

e)      G. B. Shaw

f)       Congreve

g)      John Galsworthy

h)      Thomas Middleton

i)        Christopher Marlowe

j)        George Peele

k)      Robert Greene

l)        Thomas kyd

m)    John Lily

Q. Write the names of five Modern English Dramatists:-

a)      G. B. Shaw

b)      John Galsworthy

c)      T. S. Eliot

d)      Vedrenne

e)      Osborne

f)       Christopher Fry

g)      Rabindranath Tagore

h)      Girish Karnad

i)        H. Granville Barker

j)        Asif Currimbhoy

Q. Write the names of five great English Novelists:-

a)      John Bunyan

b)      Danieal Defoe

c)      Sir Walter Scott

d)      Jane Austen

e)      Henry Fielding

f)       Oliver Goldsmith

g)      Charles Dickens

h)      George Eliot

i)        Thomas Hardy

j)        R. L. Stevenson

k)      Mrs. Gaskell

Q. Write the names of five Modern English novelists:-

a)      Richardson (Father of modern novel)

b)      D. H. Lawrence

c)      Henry James

d)      Manohar Malgonkar

e)      Pearl S. Buck

f)       Rudyard Kipling (Kim novel 1907)

g)      E. M. Forster

h)      R. K. Narayan

i)        Mulk Raj Anand

j)        Raja Rao

k)      Vikram Seth

l)        Amitabh Ghosh

m)    Anita Desai

n)      Kamla Markandaya

o)      K. S. Duggal

Q. Write the names of five Indian writing in English and also mention one poem or literary work of each of them:-

a)      Raja Rao – The serpent and the Rope, Kanthapura

b)      Mulk Raj Anand – Untouchable, Coolie

c)      R. K. Narayan – The Guide

d)      Manohar Malgaonkar – A Bend in the Ganges

e)      Khushwant Singh – Train to Pakistan

f)       Kamla Markandaya – The Flood

g)      Vikram Seth – The Golden Gate, A Suitable Boy

h)       Amitav Ghosh – The Shadow Lines

i)        Arundhati Roy – The God of small things

j)        Anita Desai – The Peacock; Bye, Bye, Blackbird

k)      Chamanwahab – Azadi

l)        Nayantara Sahgal – Storm in Chandgarth and Rich Like Us

m)    Sri Aurobindo Ghosh – Savitri

n)      Kiran Desai – The Inheritance of Loss

Q. Write the names of important dramas of William Shakespeare:-

a)      Macbeth

b)      As You Like It

c)      King Lear

d)      The Merchant of Venice

e)      Othello

f)       Hamlet

g)      Romeo and Juliet

h)      A Midsummer Night’s Dream

i)        Julius Caesar

Q. Write is called the father of modern novel?

            Ans. – Richardson is called the father of modern novel who wrote ‘Pamela’. He was the one who introduced novels to the modern world.

Q. Write briefly about the dialects of Middle English.

            Ans. – Middle English had five dialects. Those were – Northern, Southern, East Midland, West midland and Kentish

Q. Write were called the university wits?

            Ans. – The immediate predecessors of William Shakespeare established the Romantic form of drama. They were known as the university wits. Their names were – John Lily, Thomas kyd, George Peele, Robert Greene and Christopher Marlowe.

Q. Write the names of dramatic elements?

            Ans. – The dramatic elements are as follows – Plot, Characters, Music, Dialog, Gestures, Scenic Effects, and Soliloquy

Q. Most important lines of different poems of poetry (collection of poems is called poetry) –

            Ans. –

a)      But beauty vanishes …………………..

Rare it be ………..

~ Walter De La Mare

b)      I swore to save fire ……………………..

Forgetfulness.

~ Keki N. Daruwala

c)      My blood turned cold ………………….

the moon.

~ Kamla Das

d)      And the active hands …………………...

Separate knees.

~ W. H. Auden

e)      Starving through the leafless …………….

For their food.

~ W. H. Auden

f)       I think she was the most beautiful lady …………….

West Country.

~ Walter De La Mare

g)      And think, this ……………………….

Shed away.

~ Rupert Brooke

h)      There is a house now far away …………………..

Received love.

~ Kamala Das

i)        I celebrate myself ……………………………..

Shall assume.

~ Walt Whitman

j)        Whose white waterfall …………………………

last distress.

~ W. H. Auden

k)      If in thine my life ………………………………

Best of me.

~ John Donne

l)        Where are the songs of spring? …………………….

Where are they?

~ John Keats

m)    O how feeble is man’s power?

~ John Donne

n)      Thou watchest …………………………………….

Hour by hour.

~ John Keats

o)      When thou sighest soul away.

~ John Donne

p)      Light of step ……………………………………..

Was she.

~ Walter De La Mare

q)      And gathering ………………………………..

The sky.

~ John Keats

r)       I, now thirty seven years …………………….

Health begin.

~ Walter De La Mare

s)       The voice of my education ………………….

Be killed.

~ D. H. Lawrence

t)        That there’s some corner ……………………

For ever England.

~ Rupert Brooke

u)      Was it cowardice …………………………

Not kill him?

~ D. H. Lawrence

v)      And gathering swallows ……………………..

In the sky.

~ John Keats

w)    And I thought ………………………………

My snake.

~ D. H. Lawrence

x)      That woman died ……………………….

Snakes moved.

~ Kamla Das

y)      And when you think …………………..

Wide awake.

~ T. S. Eliot

z)      Dead in hundreds …………………….

Attitude of loves.

~ W. H. Auden

aa)   If I should die ………………………..

For ever England.

~ Rupert Brooke

bb)  When thou sigh’st ……………………

Sole away.

~ John Donne

cc)   He’s broken every human law …………

Make a fakir staire.

~ T. S. Eliot

dd)  Creeds and school’s …………………..

But never forgotten.

~ Walt Whitman

ee)   But think that wee …………………….

Pasted bee.

~ John Donne

ff)    Fore he seemed to me again ……………..

To be crowned again.

~ D. H. Lawrence

gg)   Her sights and sounds ………………..

Under an English heaven.

~ Rupert Brooke

hh)  Seasons of mists ……………………..

Maturing sun.

~ John Keats

ii)      Whispering neighbours ……………….

Real delight.

~ W. H. Auden

jj)      Yesternight the sunne ………………….

Hear today.

~ John Donne

kk)  I harbor for good or bad ………………

With original energy.

~ Walt Whitman

ll)      I who have lost my way ………………

In small change.

~ Kamala Das

mm)                      Who hath not seen thee ………………

Granary floor.

~ John Keats

nn)  Broken yetrebellious …………………….

Sin of forgiving.

~ Keki N. Daruwala

oo)  Someone was before me …………………….

Second coner waiting.

~ D. H. Lawrence

English of 100 marks –

Group ‘D’ –

Q. What is the importance of English for Indians?

            Or, What is the significance of English for Indians?

            Or, What is the need of English for Indians?

            Or, What is the role of English for Indians?

            Ans. –

            English is very important for Indians. In the past it played a vital role in initiating the Indians into the latest knowledge acquired by the western countries. It played an important role in providing a link language. It helped in bringing the people of different regions on one platform. Actually it provided teeth to our freedom movement. It is due to English that our freedom struggle could acquire the dimension of national movement. Today science has brought the nations of the world very close. Globalization of economy, diplomacy and technology has made it compulsory for Indians to learn English.

Q. How is English an International language?

            Or, How is English a world language?

            Or, How is English a global language?

            Or, Write a note on global English?

            Ans. –

                        English is a living language. It is a link language. It is a magic language. English is an international language not because it is read and spoken by the largest number of people but also because it is read and spoken in the largest number of countries. Almost all the former colonies of British Empire. English for them is an important language. Indian being a colony of British Empire has English an important language.

            English has become the language of International Trade, commerce, science and diplomacy.

            Thus, English without any doubt may be called international language or world language or global language or global English.

Q. What is the future of English in India?

            Ans. –

                        The future of English is very bright in India. It may be said to be the link language of the country. It played an important role in our fight against the British. It brought different people belonging to different reasons and speaking languages on one platform.

            English has future in our country also because India is economically a rising country. All resent and inventions and discoveries are found in the books of English. We cannot do anything without English.

            English has future in India also because of globalization. Market economy has created International Trade and marketing. The knowledge of English is indispensable in such a situation. English has generated employment in India. Thousands of call centers acquire employees who have knowledge of English.

            Thus, the future of English in India is very bright.

Q. Why has English become so popular in India? Give reasons.

            Ans. –

                        English has become so popular in India for several reasons. Therefore most reason is that it serves as a link language in a society that has multiplicity of languages. It brings people belonging to linguistic regions and communities together. Another reason is that good books for higher studies are mostly available in English. This makes it more popular among the learners pursuing higher studies. The extensive use of English in trade and commerce is yet another reason of its popularity. 

 

English of 100 marks –

Group ‘C’

Q. Complete the following sentences on the basis of your textual reading.

            Ans. –

a)      Dr. Radhakrishnan never lost his faith in the essential humanity of man.

b)      India’s glory is that it immovable in all circumstances.

c)      The charge against India is that its people are uncivilized, ignorant and stupid.

d)      Nanukaka was coming from Delhi to see some ministers.

e)      Nanukaka was coming to visit the narrator’s family.

f)       Sebei was passionately interested in gourds.

g)      Sebi was twelve years old.

h)      Dr. Zakir Hussian entered the office of the president in a spirit of prayerful humility and total dedication.

i)        Our forefather’s did not event machinery because they knew that we would become slaves and lose moral fibre.

j)        Benjy’s mother and father did not speak.

k)      The Gujarati equivalent for civilization means good conduct.

l)         In non-technocratic, societies, except for remarkable accident, birth is always attended.

m)    All these different elements must be born in mind in considering what ideas have done most to help mankind.

n)      Accurate reporting has given place to reporting which is at best slipshod and at worst tendentious because it is assumed that readers can be made to believe anything.

o)      The birth was virtually unattended. In non-technocratic societies, for remarkable accidents, birth is always attended.

p)      Civilization is that mode of conduct which point out to man the path of duty.

q)      I shall be told that it is neither numbers nor multiplicity of pleasures that make the glory of man.

r)       The distinguishing characteristic of modern civilization is an indefinite multiplicity of human wants.

s)       Let’s ingrave on our hearts the motto of a western philosopher simple living and high thinking.

t)        The very colour remind me of the variety of hue that is Indian life, as various as our own American human scan.

u)      The most important and difficult steps were taken before the dawn of history.

v)      I was waiting on the platform when the train came in.

w)    As soon as he woke the next morning, he would open the tin and examine the gourds.

Q. Books and authors –

a.       David Copperfield                               ~ Charles Dickens

b.      Emma                                                  ~ Janne Austen

c.       The Guide                                            ~ R. K. Narayan

d.      The Canterbury Tales                          ~ Geoffrey Chaucer

e.       Piers the Plowman                               ~ William Langland

f.       Le Morte d’Arthur                               ~ Sir Thomas Malory

g.       Arms and the Man                               ~ G. B. Shaw

h.      Untouchable                                        ~ Mulk Raj Anand

i.        Collie                                                   ~ Mulk Raj Anand

j.        Two Leaves and a Bud                        ~ Mulk Raj Anand

k.      Kanthapura                                          ~ Raja Rao

l.        The Serpent Rope                                ~ Raja Rao

m.    A Bend Ganges                                    ~ Manohar Malgaonkar

n.      The Rope of the Lock                          ~ Alexander Pope

o.      Pride and Prejudice                              ~ Jane Austen

p.      The Old man and the Sea                     ~ Ernest Hemingway

q.      The Waste Land                                   ~ T. S. Eliot

r.        A passage to India                               ~ E. M. Forster

s.       Paradise Lost                                       ~ John Milton

t.        Pamela                                                 ~ Richardson

u.      The Eve of St. Agnes                           ~ John Keats

v.      The Gitanjali                                        ~ Rabindra Nath Tagore

w.     Discovery of India                               ~ J. L. Nehru

x.      Dr. Faustus                                          ~ Christopher Marlowe

y.      The way of the World                          ~ William Congreve

z.       Paradise Regained                                ~ John Milton

aa.   Mac Flecknoe                                      ~ John Dryden

ab.  Lamia                                                  ~ John Keats

ac.   The Ancient Mariner                            ~ S. T. Coleridge

ad.  The Skylark                                         ~ P. B. Shelly

ae.   Second Coming                                      ~ W. B. Yeats

af.    The Prelude                                         ~ William Wordsworth

ag.   The Pilgrim’s Progress                         ~ John Bunyan

ah.  Twice Born and Twice Dead               ~ K. S. Duggal

ai.      A farewell to Arms                              ~ Ernest Hemingway

aj.      War and Peace                                     ~ Leo N. Tolstoy

ak.  Hard Times                                          ~ Charles Dickens

al.      The Faerie Queene                               ~ Edmund Spenser

am. Volpone                                               ~ Ben Johnson