The Blossom Class poem 9th Lesson 9

 NOTES PREPARED BY 

Farid hussain bhat

TEACHER SCHOOL 

EDUCATION DEPARTMENT 

JAMMU AND KASHMIR

Lesson -9: To Blossoms.

(Robert Herrick)

Thinking about the poem:

Q.1 In what way are the blossoms pledges of the fruitful tree?

Ans: The blossoms have been called "fair pledges of the fruitful tree because they are indications of rich crop that the tree is going to have.

Q.2 What is the poet's wish about blossoms?

Ans: The poet whishes that the blossoms should not fade away fast but stay a while so that they can blush and gently smile.

Q. 3 What does the poet mean by saying'why do you fall so fast?

Ans: The poet means that the blossoms should not fade away so fast and stay a while so that they can blush and gently smile

Q.4 Why does the poet compare human life to blossoms?

Ans: The poet compares human life with blossoms because like blossoms the human beings also have a short life to stay on this earth.

Q.5 Name some blossoming trees in the state of J&K.

Ans: These are: Apple tree , Almond tree, Cheery trees and Chestnut trees

Q.6 What is ‘pity referred to in second stanza?

Ans: It is a pity that nature brought forth lovely blossoms merely to show their worth for a short a while and then fade away for ever.

Q.7 .What is personified in the poem?

Ans: The blossoms have been personified in the poem. They have been show to live and die like human beings.have very short time to stay on the earth and them they glide into the grave. So, transient of all life is the central idea of this poem.

Summary of the poem:

 The poem, "To Blossoms” composed by Robert Herrick is addressed by poet to the lovely blossoms. He is filled with grief to see how soon the blossoms fall and fade away. He wonders why nature brought forth such lovely blossoms if they were to fade away so soon. However he realizes that all things are short lived. Even human beings have a short life to live on this earth. The man should learn a lesson from the fate of the blossoms that too like the blossoms will live very short and then glide into the grave.

Central Idea of the poem:

 The poem, "To Blossoms" composed by Robert Herrick is bases upon the theme that human life is very short like the blossoms. The poet sees in blossoms the fate of all living things. All the things

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