4th Baby seeds song - Edith Nesbit

Poem- Baby seeds song

Poet - Edith Nesbit

Part B - Reference to context

1. Put on your green coats and gay

     Blue sky will shine on you sun shine caress you

a. Who is the speaker? Who is being spoken to?

Ans - The lark is the speaker. The brown baby seeds are being spoken to.

b. What are they being asked to do?

Ans- The lark ask the seeds to wake up and dress up their happy green clothes .

c. What will happen when they have done so?

Ans-  The blue sky will shine on them and the sunshine caress them.

2. What you are sunflower how I shall miss you

      When you are grown golden and high

a. Who is the speaker? Why is the speaker surprised?

Ans- The speaker is the poppy seed. The poppy seed  is surprised to find out that the other seed is is a sunflower seed.

b. Why will the speaker miss the other person?

Ans.- The poppy seed will miss the sunflower because they have spent so much time together  under the ground.

c. What will the speaker become?

Ans- The speaker is a poppy seed and it will become a poppy flower .

C. THINK AND ANSWER

1. Why do you think the poppy seed thought that the other seed was also a poppy seed?

Ans -The other seed was also looking same so the poppy seed thought that the other seed was also a poppy seed. 

2.'  Do be a poppy like me'. Do you think it is easier to be friends with other who are like us? What are the advantages of knowing someone who is very different from us?

Ans. Yes it is easier to be friends with other who are like us. The main advantage of knowing someone who is different from us is that we can learn something new from that person.

3. We never hear what the sunflower seed says. Do you know from the poem about how the sunflower seed reacts? What are the clues that the poem gives?

Ans- From the poem we can assume that the sunflower is a very quite flower so we have not heard anything from the sunflower seed in the poem.