Class 6 English - Honeysuckle
Poem 4 - Beauty
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NCERT Solutions Class 6 English Reader Poem 4 Beauty
QUESTIONS FROM TEXTBOOK
Beauty gives pleasure to all our senses. It can be noticed in the sunlight, the trees, the birds, the fields and the dancing groups. The people dance joyfully for their harvest.
Beauty can also be heard in the night when the wind makes a whistling sound the rain falls or some singer sings merrily.
True beauty, however, shows itself in our noble actions and good ideas. That beauty is repeated in one’s dreams and deeds, and even when one rests.
SUMMARY IN HIND
सुन्दरता हमारी सभी इंद्रियों को आनन्द देती है। इसे सूर्य के प्रकाश में, वृक्षों में, पक्षियों में, खेतों और नृत्य करते लोगों में देखा जा सकता है। लोग अपनी फसल काटने के बाद खुशी से झूमते, नाचते हैं।
सुन्दरता की रात में सुना भी जा सकता है जब पवन साँय-साँय का शोर करता है, वर्षा का शोर होता है अथवा कोई गायक खुशी से गाता है।
पर सच्ची सुन्दरता तो आदमी के कार्यों और नेक विचारों में झलकती है। वही सुन्दरता व्यक्ति के सपनों में, सद्कार्यों में और उसके विश्राम में भी दोहराई जाती है।
HINDI VERSION OF THE POEM WITH COMPREHENSION
1.
Beauty is seen
In the sunlight.
The trees, the birds,
Corn grouping and people working
Or dancing for their harvest.
word-Notes: Corn-food crops – Harvest-crop
सुन्दरता को धूप में, वृक्षों में, पक्षियों में, खेत में उगते अनाज में, मेहनत करते लोगों में अथवा फसल पकने में आनन्दविभोर नाच-गाने में देखा जा सकता है।
Questions:
Read the following questions and choose the most appropriate option from the ones given below:
- Where can we see beauty?
(a) Sunlight
(b) Trees
(c) Birds
(d) All of the above.
- How do people become beautiful?
(a) By decorating their houses
(b) By wearing beautiful dress
(c) By working in fields
(d) By travelling to beautiful places.
- What makes people dance in the fields?
(a) Good harvest
(b) Beautiful scenes
(c) Beautiful birds
(d) Fresh air.
- Who is the poet of this poem?
(a) E-yeh-Shure
(b) Harry Behn
(c) Lorrain M. Halls
(d) None of the above.
- What does the word harvest mean?
(a) Hard work
(b) Crop
(c) Seed
(d) Fertiliser.
Answer :
- (d)
- (C)
- (a)
- (a)
- (b)
2.
Beauty is heard
In the night,
wind sighing, rain falling.
Or a singer chanting
Anything in earnest.
Word-Notes: Heard–listened to सुना जा सकता है। Wind sighing-blowing of wind हवा की साँय – साँय में। Chanting-singing “IIằ gU In earnest-sincerely, honestly पूरी लगन से।
सौन्दर्य को सुना भी जा सकता है रात को पवन की साँय-साँय में, वर्षा के गिरने की आवाज में अथवा किसी भी गायक के गायन में जो पूरी लगन से कुछ भी गा रहा हो।
Questions:
Read the following questions and choose the most appropriate option from the ones given below:
- When is beauty heard?
(a) In morning
(b) In evening
(c) In night
(d) All the time.
- How are sounds produced?
(a) By blowing winds and the falling raindrops
(b) By children’s noise
(c) By running vehicles on the road
(d) By musical songs.
- What effect do blowing of winds and falling of raindrops create?
(a) Depressing
(b) Musical
(c) Soothing
(d) Monotonous.
- How can a singer create beauty?
(a) With his melodious voice
(b) With his stretch of breath
(c) With his impressive personality
(d) With his body language.
- What does the phrase in earnest mean here?
(a) Proudly
(b) Happily
(c) Sincerely
(d) Affectionately.
Answer :
- (c)
- (a)
- (b)
- (a)
- (C)
3.
Beauty is in yourself.
Good deeds, happy thoughts
That repeat themselves
In your dreams,
In your work,
And even in your rest.
Word-Notes: In yourself-inside one’s ownself अपने अन्दर। Good deeds-noble actions अच्छे काम। Happy thoughts-अच्छे विचार। Repeat themselves-are reflected or shown दिखाई देते हैं। Dreams-ambitionsउच्चाकांक्षायें।
सौन्दर्य का वास तो व्यक्ति के अन्दर ही होता है, उसके नेक कार्यों और सुखद विचारों में जो परिलक्षित हो जाते हैं आपके स्वप्नों में, कार्यों में तथा आपके विश्राम के क्षणों में भी।
Questions:
Read the following questions and choose the most appropriate option from the ones given below:
- Where does real beauty lie?
(a) In our beautiful personality
(b) In our noble actions and happy thoughts
(c) In our singing
(d) In our status in society.
- What does the poet want to say through the poem?
(a) Beauty can be seen, heard and practised
(b) Beauty is something that can not be acquired
(c) Beauty is something that makes our life soothing
(d) One should not believe in beauty.
- Which one of the following is not associated with the real beauty?
(d) Good deeds –
(b) Sweet ideas
(c) Quarrelsome nature
(d) Helping nature.
- What does the phrase “repeat themselves’ mean here?
(a) come again and again
(b) Reflected or shown
(c) Departed temporarily
(d) None of the above.
- Inner beauty of a person is shown in ……….
(a) his/her actions and ideas
(b) his/her dreams
(c) his/her work
(d) all of the above.
Answer :
- (b)
- (a)
- (c)
- (b)
- (d)
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QUESTIONS FROM TEXTBOOK
WORKING WITH THE POEM
Question 1:
The poet says, “Beauty is heard in …”
Can you hear beauty? Add a sound that you think is beautiful to the sounds the poet thinks are beautiful.
The poet, Keats, said:
Heard melodies are Sweet,
But those unheard are sweeter.
What do you think this means? Have you ever heard a song in your head, long after the song was sung or played?
Answer :
We find the melodious notes of the cuckoo or the nightingale very pleasing to the ears. But that pleasure is still incomplete. We have models of perfect beauty in our imagination. And we wait anxiously to hear our beloved’s voice and the chanting of prayers in holy places. We all look for perfection. A poetic phrase, idea or expression haunts us all through life.
Question 2:
Read the first and the second stanzas of the poem again. Note the following phrases.
corn growing, people working or dancing, wind sighing,
rain falling, a singer chanting
These could be written as
corn that is growing
people who are working or dancing
Can you rewrite the other phrases like this? Why do you think the poet uses the shorter phrases?
Answer :
Yes, a few other phrases have been shortened in the poem.
For example, stream flowing, baby crying, etc.
I think the poet uses the shorter phrase for creating musical effect.
Question 3:
Find pictures of beautiful things you have seen or heard of.
Answer :
Each one of us has a different concept of beauty in physical form or in thoughts and ideas. Your experience may be different from your friend’s. So try to recall yourself beautiful scenes and sounds.
Question 4:
Write a paragraph about beauty. Use your own ideas along with the ideas in the poem. (You may discuss your ideas with your partner.)
Answer :
Our whole life is a mad search for beauty in different forms. Every fine art is a treasure house of beauty – be it dance, or poetry or sculpture. What the tribal people regard as beauty may look ugly to us. So beauty has as many forms as one can imagine. But nobody can fail to see beauty in good deeds, heroic actions, sweet voice and in nature.
MORE QUESTIONS SOLVED
Question 1:
What is beauty? Where can, in the poet’s opinion, beauty be seen, heard and experienced?
Answer :
It is difficult to describe or define beauty. But beauty attracts everybody and is appreciated all over the world. Where does beauty lie in? Well, it is visible in the sunlight, the trees, the birds, the crops and the harvesters who dance merrily. Beauty is heard in the night when the wind blows or rain falls or some singer Sings. But the real beauty lies in noble actions and thoughts at all times whether working or resting.