Paper Boats” by Rabindranath Tagore:

 “Paper Boats” by Rabindranath Tagore:

A. Answer the questions

1. What does the speaker load his boats with?

The speaker loads his paper boats with shiuli flowers from his garden.

2. What does he hope will happen to the load he puts on the boats?

He hopes that the flowers will be carried safely to land during the night.

3. What are the clouds compared to?

The clouds are compared to boats with white bulging sails.

4. What does the speaker dream of? How does the load on the boat change from the earlier one?

A- The speaker dreams that his paper boats sail under the night stars, and fairies replace the flowers with baskets full of dreams.

B. Answer with reference to the context

1. “In big black letters I write my name and the name of the village where I live.”

a. What is the speaker playing with?

The speaker is playing with paper boats.

b. What does he write his name on?

He writes his name on the paper boats.

c. Why do you think he writes the name of his village as well?

He writes the name of his village so that whoever finds the boat will know where he comes from.

2. “I know not what playmate of mine in the sky sends them down the air to race with my boats!”

a. How old do you think the speaker is?

The speaker seems to be a young child.

b. What does the playmate send down from the sky?

The playmate sends down the clouds from the sky.

c. Why do you think the speaker imagines a race?

The speaker imagines a race because the clouds seem to move with his paper boats.

3rd The Rabbit Poem ( Back Exercise)

“The Rabbit”:

A. Answer the following questions

1. What is the speaker doing? Is she alone?

* The speaker is hiding under a thick grapevine. She is not alone because a rabbit comes near her.

2. What comes out of the grass, where the speaker is hiding?

* A little gray rabbit comes out of the grass.

3. How do the speaker and the rabbit react to seeing each other?

* The rabbit looks hard at the speaker. The speaker also looks back very hard at the rabbit. 

4. How does the speaker describe the eyes of the rabbit?

* The speaker describes the rabbit’s eyes as big, still, and bursting out of the rim.

B. Answer with reference to context

1. *“He hopped his way through the melon bed

And sat down close by a cabbage head.”*

a. Who hopped his way through the melon bed?

* The rabbit hopped his way through the melon bed.

b. Where does the speaker meet him?

* The speaker meets the rabbit near a cabbage head in the garden.

2. *“He sat down close where I could see

And his big still eyes looked hard at me.”*

a. Who is the speaker talking about?

* The speaker is talking about the rabbit.

b. Why are ‘his eyes’ looking hard at the speaker?

* His eyes are looking hard at the speaker because the rabbit has noticed her and is curious .