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THE ADDRESS CLASS 11 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

THE ADDRESS BY MARGA MINCO CLASS - XI (HORNBILL) QUESTIONS & ANSWERS ---------------------------------------- 1. ‘Have you come back?’ said the woman. ‘I thought that no one had come back.’ Does this statement give some clue about the story? If yes, what is it? Answer:  The statement shows that the woman and the narrator already knew each other. The story is about a girl who wants to get back her mother’s old belongings from an older woman called Mrs. Dorling. Before the war, the girl’s mother had moved her valuable things to the house of Mrs. Dorling, a trusted acquaintance. But after her mother died in the war, Mrs. Dorling thought no one would come to claim them. When the girl finally went to collect the items, she was shocked. The statement makes it clear that Mrs. Dorling is selfish, as she wants to keep the antiques even though they are not hers. She pretends not to recognize the girl and refuses to let her enter the house. 2. The story is divided into pre-War and post-...
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ODE TO AUTUMN (Textbook Answers)

ODE TO AUTUMN
Answers (Text-Book Questions)
1.       The expressions in the first stanza which tells us of the abundance and ripeness of the season are “Seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness, conspiring with him how to load and bless, the fruit vines that round the thatch- eaves run, and fill all fruit with ripeness to the core.”
2.       The expressions which clearly show examples of personification are – “Close bosom friend of the maturing sun, to bend with apples the moss’d cottage trees.”
3.       Autumn is directly addressed in the second stanza as "thee." The speaker considers autumn during harvest time. Again personified, the speaker thinks of autumn sitting on a granary floor as the grain is being harvested. Then the speaker considers autumn asleep, made drowsy by the perfume of the poppies. Finally, the autumn is watching the apples in a "cyder-press squeezing the juice from apples." Since the first stanza gives subtle indications of being early in the day, the second stanza would be midday or afternoon as autumn has spent "hours by hours" watching the harvest, a sense of sometime gone by.
4.      The poet contrasts Autumn with Spring.
5.      Fruits, crops, vegetables, flowers come to ripeness and lamb grows to fullness.
 
 
Reference to the Context
Think not of them... music too,-
a.                      What should we not think of?
Ans: We should not think of Spring.
b.                 What is the music of Autumn and who or what creates it?
Ans: The music of Autumn includes images, of clouds and harvested fields at sunset. The small gnats hum, the lambs bleat, the crickets sing, Robins whistle and swallows sing. All these create the music.
 
 
EXTRA QUESTION & ANSWER
Q. What is the central idea of the poem?
Ans: The central idea of the poem is that time changes like the seasons. The world is always changing and there is great beauty in this change. Even though the Spring season has its charms, Autumn is also beautiful in its own way. It is a time of bounty when fruits and flowers ripen to give human beings a good harvest for the winter.

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