West Bengal SSC new Pattern TET for class (9 to 12). 2019

 WEST BENGAL SCHOOL SERVICE COMMISSION

 THE COMMISSION:

           The West Bengal School Service Commission Act, 1997 (West Bengal Act IV 1997) enacted by Notification No. 936-L dated 1.4.1997 came into force with effect from 01.11.1997 for the purpose of recruitment of Assistant Teacher and Headmaster/ Headmistress in recognized Non-Government aided Schools in West Bengal and presently the recruitment processes are guided by the West Bengal School Service Commission (Selection of Persons for Appointment to the Post of Teacher) Rules, 2007.
The State Government later on decided that the Non-Teaching Staff in the posts of Librarian, Clerk and Group-D Staff including Laboratory Attendant, Peon, Night Guard, Matron in recognized Non-Government aided Schools in West Bengal should also be recruited through School Service Commission, and accordingly necessary amendments have been introduced in the said Act, vide the West Bengal School Service Commission (Amendment) Act, 2008 (West Ben. Act IV of 2008) and such selection process be guided by the West Bengal School Service Commission (Selection of Persons for Appointment to the Post of Non-Teaching Staff) Rules, 2009.

• New Pattern:

        WestBengal School service commission introduced a new name - SLST  means - State Level Selection Test - for the post of assistant teacher in government aided School. And also introduced central norms such as compulsory B.Ed degree for appearing as an eligible candidate for the said post. They also devided SSC subject matter in secondary and higher secondary level. Apart from the subject matter they also introduced 1.Primary TET (class 1 to 4/5) and 2. Upper primary TET (class 5 to 8)



IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT : There might be some changes are going to happen regarding pattern of examination and eligibility criteria from upcoming season. Like introduction of different TET system of 180 marks for class 9/10 and  11/12 . The announcement yet not passed officially. You will only get detailed information after Official Confirmation. 

Here is the new announcement -

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA:

Educational qualification:
  Essential:
(a) Graduate /Post Graduate from recognized University with at least 50% marks in either Graduation or Post Graduation (or its equivalent) and Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) from National Council for Teacher Education recognized institution;

Or.

(b) Graduate /Post Graduate from recognized University with at least 45% marks in either Graduation or Post Graduation (or its equivalent) and Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) from National Council for Teacher Education recognized institution, [in accordance with National Council for Teacher Education (form of Application for recognition, the time limit of
submission of application, determination of norms and standards for recognition of teacher education programmes and permission to start new course or training) Regulations, 2002 notified on 13/11/2002 and National Council for Teacher Education (Recognition norms and Procedures) Regulations 2007 notified on 10/12/2007];

Or.

(c) 4 years degree of B.A.Ed /B.Sc.Ed. from any National Council for Teacher Education recognized institution.
Note.—The minimum qualification as prescribed by the NCTE on the date of publication of advertisement shall also be considered.

Age Limit : 
         Minimum 20 years and maximum 40 years.
Upper age limit is, however, relaxable by 5 years for Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe candidates, 3 years for Backward Class candidates and 8 years for the Physically Handicapped Candidates and upto 55 years of age for in case of service teacher.


PATTERN OF EXAMINATION:

• Exam Pattern: Total 100 Marks.

The exam Pattern consists of -

1.Written Exam
2.Educational Qualification and Interview

• Exam Pattern Details:

1.Written exam is about multiple choice type question of 55 marks , 1 mark per question. No Negetive Marking. Duration 60 minutes.

2.Interview and educational qualification is about 45 marks. 10 marks for the Interview. And 35 marks for the Educational qualification.



 Here we are going to discuss about....
SLST ENGLISH HONOURS/ GRADUATE level For class IX-X.  

SYLLABUS:

Poetry:


WilliamWordswort: Lucy Poems, The world is too much with us.

P.B. Shelley: Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark

John Keats: Ode to a Nightangle, The Autumn

Alfred Tennyson: Ulysses

Robert Browning: The last Ride Together

Thomas Hardy: The Darkling Thrush

W.B Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole.

Wilfred Owen: Strange Meeting

Walter De La Mare: The Listeners


Drama:


Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer

G.B. Shaw: Arms and the Man

John Galsworthy: Justice


Short Story:

Joseph Conrad: Lagoon

Somerset Maugham: The Lotus Eater

O. Henry: The Gift of the Magie

H.E. Bates: The OX


Essay:

Charles Lamb: Dream children- a Reverie

L.A. Hill: Principles of Good Writing


GRAMMAR and USAGE

• Common Errors

Number, Gender, Tense, Voice, N Mood
Agreement of Verbs, Use of Articles and Prepositions,

• SentenceForms

Simple, Compound, Complex, Relative Clauses
Joining and Splitting of Sentences Narration Direct Speech and Indirect Speech

• Composition

A single paragraph of about 50-60 words to be written on a given topic



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The Lucy Poems by William Wordsworth. || Text | Summary | Notes

The Lucy Poems

                             .......William Wordsworth.....

         The Lucy poems are a series of five poems composed by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770–1850) between 1798 and 1801. All but one were first published during 1800 in the second edition of Lyrical Ballads, a collaboration between Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge that was both Wordsworth's first major publication and a milestone in the early English Romantic movement. In the series, Wordsworth sought to write unaffected English verse infused with abstract ideals of beauty, nature, love, longing and death.
        The poems were written during a short period while the poet lived in Germany. Although they individually deal with a variety of themes, as a series they focus on the poet's longing for the company of his friend Coleridge, who had stayed in England, and on his increasing impatience with his sister Dorothy, who had travelled with him abroad. Wordsworth examines the poet's unrequited love for the idealised character of Lucy, an English girl who has died young. The idea of her death weighs heavily on the poet throughout the series, imbuing it with a melancholic, elegiac tone. Whether Lucy was based on a real woman or was a figment of the poet's imagination has long been a matter of debate among scholars. Generally reticent about the poems, Wordsworth never revealed the details of her origin or identity. Some scholars speculate that Lucy is based on his sister Dorothy, while others see her as a fictitious or hybrid character. Most critics agree that she is essentially a literary device upon whom he could project, meditate and reflect.


Lucy Poems consists of five poems.

The first four of the Lucy Poems were published in the "Lyrical Ballad" . And the last was published in poems - "Two Volumes".

 1. A Slumber did my spirit seal.

 2. She dwelt among untrodden ways.

 3. Strange fits of passion have I known.

 4. Three years she grew in sim and summer.

 5. I travelled among Unknown men.



Who was Lucy?

   It is still controversial as many critics assume Lucy to be Annette Vallon ( Wordsworth's French mistress). And others says Lucy is Peggy Hutchinson, the sister of Mary who was to become Wordsworth's wife. Another group suggest that Lucy was his sister Dorothy.

1.  A Slumber did my Spiriearths'

A slumber did my spirit seal;

I had no human fears:

She seemed a thing that could not feel

The touch of earthly years.

No motion has she now, no force;

She neither hears nor sees;

Rolled round in earth's diurnal course,

With rocks, and stones, and trees.

2.  She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways

She dwelt among the untrodden ways

Beside the springs of Dove,

A Maid whom there were none to praise

And very few to love:

A violet by a mossy stone

Half hidden from the eye!

—Fair as a star, when only one

Is shining in the sky.

She lived unknown, and few could know

When Lucy ceased to be;

But she is in her grave, and, oh,

The difference to me!

3.  Strange Fits Of Passion Have I Known

Strange fits of passion have I known:

And I will dare to tell,

But in the Lover's ear alone,

What once to me befell.

When she I loved looked every day

Fresh as a rose in June,

I to her cottage bent my way,

Beneath an evening-moon.

Upon the moon I fixed my eye,

All over the wide lea;

With quickening pace my horse drew nigh

Those paths so dear to me.

And now we reached the orchard-plot;

And, as we climbed the hill,

The sinking moon to Lucy's cot

Came near, and nearer still.

In one of those sweet dreams I slept,

Kind Nature's gentlest boon!

And all the while my eyes I kept

On the descending moon.

My horse moved on; hoof after hoof

He raised, and never stopped:

When down behind the cottage roof,

At once, the bright moon dropped.

What fond and wayward thoughts will slide

Into a Lover's head!

"O mercy!" to myself I cried,

"If Lucy should be dead!"

4.  I Travelled among Unknown Men

I travelled among unknown men,

In lands beyond the sea;

Nor, England! did I know till then

What love I bore to thee.

'Tis past, that melancholy dream!

Nor will I quit thy shore

A second time; for still I seem

To love thee more and more.

Among thy mountains did I feel

The joy of my desire;

And she I cherished turned her wheel

Beside an English fire.

Thy mornings showed, thy nights concealed,

The bowers where Lucy played;

And thine too is the last green field

That Lucy's eyes surveyed.

5.  Three Years She Grew In Sun and Summer

Three years she grew in sun and shower,

Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower

On earth was never sown;

This Child I to myself will take;

She shall be mine, and I will make

A Lady of my own.

"Myself will to my darling be

Both law and impulse: and with me

The Girl, in rock and plain,

In earth and heaven, in glade and bower,

Shall feel an overseeing power

To kindle or restrain.

"She shall be sportive as the fawn

That wild with glee across the lawn

Or up the mountain springs;

And hers shall be the breathing balm,

And hers the silence and the calm

Of mute insensate things.

"The floating clouds their state shall lend

To her; for her the willow bend;

Nor shall she fail to see

Even in the motions of the Storm

Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form

By silent sympathy.

"The stars of midnight shall be dear

To her; and she shall lean her ear

In many a secret place

Where rivulets dance their wayward round,

And beauty born of murmuring sound

Shall pass into her face.

"And vital feelings of delight

Shall rear her form to stately height,

Her virgin bosom swell;

Such thoughts to Lucy I will give

While she and I together live

Here in this happy dell."

Thus Nature spake—The work was done—

How soon my Lucy's race was run!

She died, and left to me

This heath, this calm and quiet scene;

The memory of what has been,

And never more will be.

QUESTIONS:

1. The main theme of Lucy Poems is?

2. "A sumber did my spirit seal" - slumber means?

3. "A sumber did my spirit seal" - here the word 'seal' means?

4. "A sumber did my spirit seal" - what has induced slumber in the poets heart?

5. "I had no human fears"- why the poet had no human fears?

6. "She seemed..../...Touch the earthly years"-what does the poet mean by?

7. "She neither hears nor sees"- why can she not hear or see?

8. "Rolled round the earth's diurnal course"- here diurnal course means?

9. "She Dwelt among the untrodden ways"- why are the ways untrodden?

10. "Beside the springs of Dove" -what is Dove?

11. "A maid there were none to praise"- here the maid refers to?

12. "Fair as a star, when only one"- who is fare as a star?

13. "I too her cottage bent my way"- here bent means?

14. "All over the wide lea"- here the word lea means?

15.  " Did I know till then"- what did the poet not know till then?

16. "What love I bore to thee"- here thee refers to?

17. " Thy morning shower ,thy nights concealed "- what is shown and concealed to the poet?

18. "Three years she grew in sun and summer" -here she refers to?

19. "She shall be sportive as a fawn"- here fawn means?

20. " The work was done"- what work is reffered to here?

21. " How soon lucys race was run"- the poet means to say?





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The World Is Too Much With Us

                                ....... William Wordsworth......



"The World Is Too Much with Us" is a sonnet by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. In it, Wordsworth criticises the world of the First Industrial Revolution for being absorbed in materialism and distancing itself from nature. Composed circa 1802, the poem was first published in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807). Like most Italian sonnets, its 14 lines are written in iambic pentameter.

The World Is Too Much With Us

TEXT:

The world is too much with us; late and soon,

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

Little we see in Nature that is ours;

We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;

The winds that will be howling at all hours,

And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;

For this, for everything, we are out of tune;

It moves us not. Great God! I’d rather be

A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;

So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,

Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;

Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;

Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.

SUMMARY:

Wordsworth gives a fatalistic view of the world, past and future. The words "late and soon" in the opening verse describe how the past and future are included in his characterization of mankind. The author knows the potential of humanity's "powers," but fears it is clouded by the mentality of "getting and spending." The "sordid boon" we have "given our hearts" is the materialistic progress of mankind. The detriment society has on the environment will proceed unchecked and relentless like the "winds that will be howling at all hours". The speaker complains that "the world" is too overwhelming for us to appreciate it, and that people are so concerned about time and money that they use up all their energy. These people want to accumulate material goods, so they see nothing in Nature that they can "own", and have sold their souls.

Unlike society, Wordsworth does not see nature as a commodity. The verse "Little we see in Nature that is ours", shows that coexisting is the relationship envisioned. We should be able to appreciate beautiful events like the moon shining over the ocean and the blowing of strong winds, but it is almost as if humans are on a different wavelength from Nature. The "little we see in Nature that is ours" exemplifies the removed sentiment man has for nature, being obsessed with materialism and other worldly objects. Wordsworth's Romanticism is best shown through his appreciation of nature in these lines and his woes for man and its opposition to nature. The relationship between Nature and man appears to be at the mercy of mankind because of the vulnerable way nature is described. The verse "This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon", gives the vision of a feminine creature opening herself to the heavens above. The phrase "sleeping flowers" might also describe how nature is being overrun unknowingly and is helpless.

The verse "I, standing on this pleasant lea, have glimpses that would make me less forlorn", reveals Wordsworth's perception of himself in society: a visionary romantic more in touch with nature than his contemporaries. The speaker would rather be a pagan who worships an outdated religion so that when he gazes out on the ocean (as he's doing now), he might feel less sad. If he were a pagan, he would have glimpses of the great green meadows that would make him less dejected. He'd see wild mythological gods like Proteus, who can take many shapes, and Triton, who can soothe the howling sea waves.



Notes :

1. It is a Sonnet

2. The world is too much with us - here 'us'  refers to All the Humans

3. We lay waste our powers in Getting and Spending.

4. Sordid Boon refers to Miserable Blessing

5. 'It moves us not' refers to 'Beauty of Nature.'

6. Pegan means A person with no Religion

7. Suckled means Brought up.

8. Creed means Religious beliefs.

9. Outworn means Outdated

10. 'Proteus refers to 'The Greek God of Sea'.

11. 'Triton' refers to 'Merman' son of Sea' God.




IMPORTANT QUESTIONS:

1."The world is too much with us" is a/an--

A) Ode 

B) Elegy

C) Sonnet

D) Song

2. "The world is too much with us" -here us' refers to?

A) The poet and his beloved

B) The poet and his friend

C) The poet of England

D) Humans

3. "We lay waste our powers"- in what do we waste our powers?

A) Getting and Spending

B) Fighting with ourselves

C) Aimless efforts

D) Excessive greed

4. "We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon"- what is meant by sordid boon?

A) Expected blessings

B) Unexpected blessings

C) Miserable blessings

D) None of the above

5. "It moves us not" - what does not move us?

A) The beauty of nature

B) The suffering of people

C) The enjoyment of people

D) None of these

6. "I would rather be a pagan"- here the word pegan means?

A) A person with no particular nationality

B) A person with no religion

C) A person having no personality

D) None of the above

7. ".......suckled in a creed outworn "- here the word suckled means?

A) Shaken

B) Seeking

C) Brought up

D) Swallowed

8. .......suckled in a creed outworn "- here the word creed means?

A) Religious beliefs

B) Complexities

C) Belief of a pagan

D) All the above

9. ".......suckled in a creed outworn "- here the word outworn means?

A) Complex

B) Outdated

C) Unbelievable

D) None of these

10. "Have sight of the Proteus rising from the sea;" who is Proteus?

A) Greek God of Sea

B) Roman God of Sea

C) Pagan God of Sea

D) None of the above

11. "Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn" who is Triton?

A) A Sea God

B) A merman, son of Sea God

C) A Greek God of music

D) A Roman God of Music

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 ODE TO THE WEST WIND
              ......P.B.Shelley....

Ode to the West Wind" is an ode, written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1819 near Florence, Italy. It was originally published in 1820 by Charles and Edmund Ollier in London as part of the collection Prometheus Unbound, A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, With Other Poems. Some have interpreted the poem as the speaker lamenting his inability to directly help those in England owing to his being in Italy. At the same time, the poem expresses the hope that its words will inspire and influence those who read or hear it. Perhaps more than anything else, Shelley wanted his message of reform and revolution spread, and the wind becomes the trope for spreading the word of change through the poet-prophet figure. Some also believe that the poem was written in response to the loss of his son, William (born to Mary Shelley) in 1819. The ensuing pain influenced Shelley. The poem allegorises the role of the poet as the voice of change and revolution. At the time of composing this poem, Shelley without doubt had the Peterloo Massacre of August 1819 in mind. His other poems written at the same time—The Masque of Anarchy, Prometheus Unbound, and "England in 1819"—take up these same themes of political change, revolution, and role of the poet. (Wikipedia)



TEXT:

I

O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being,

Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead

Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,

Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red,

Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou,

Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed

The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low,

Each like a corpse within its grave, until

Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow

Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill

(Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air)

With living hues and odours plain and hill:

Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;

Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh hear!

II

Thou on whose stream, mid the steep sky's commotion,

Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves are shed,

Shook from the tangled boughs of Heaven and Ocean,

Angels of rain and lightning: there are spread

On the blue surface of thine aëry surge,

Like the bright hair uplifted from the head

Of some fierce Maenad, even from the dim verge

Of the horizon to the zenith's height,

The locks of the approaching storm. Thou dirge

Of the dying year, to which this closing night

Will be the dome of a vast sepulchre,

Vaulted with all thy congregated might

Of vapours, from whose solid atmosphere

Black rain, and fire, and hail will burst: oh hear!

III

Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams

The blue Mediterranean, where he lay,

Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams,

Beside a pumice isle in Baiae's bay,

And saw in sleep old palaces and towers

Quivering within the wave's intenser day,

All overgrown with azure moss and flowers

So sweet, the sense faints picturing them! Thou

For whose path the Atlantic's level powers

Cleave themselves into chasms, while far below

The sea-blooms and the oozy woods which wear

The sapless foliage of the ocean, know

Thy voice, and suddenly grow gray with fear,

And tremble and despoil themselves: oh hear!

IV

If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear;

If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee;

A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share

The impulse of thy strength, only less free

Than thou, O uncontrollable! If even

I were as in my boyhood, and could be

The comrade of thy wanderings over Heaven,

As then, when to outstrip thy skiey speed

Scarce seem'd a vision; I would ne'er have striven

As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need.

Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!

I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

A heavy weight of hours has chain'd and bow'd

One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud.

V

Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is:

What if my leaves are falling like its own!

The tumult of thy mighty harmonies

Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone,

Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce,

My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!

Drive my dead thoughts over the universe

Like wither'd leaves to quicken a new birth!

And, by the incantation of this verse,

Scatter, as from an unextinguish'd hearth

Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!

Be through my lips to unawaken'd earth

The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind,

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

WORD NOTES:

•  Dirge - Sond of Lamentations
• Dying years- ending of the year
• Azure- Sky blue
•  Chariotest - Steer
•  lyre- A siringed musical instrument
• Cleave- Brake up
• Chasm- Deep hollows.
• Baie's Bay - Situated to the west of Naples.

QUESTIONS:

1. What is the material scheme in the poem?

Terzarima

2. What type of poem is Shelley's Ode to the west wind?

Ode ( Horetion)

3. What does the west wind do to the yellow red autumnal leaves?

Makes them fly.

4. Why according to the poet west wind is a preserver?

Deposit seeds in the soil.

5. Why west wind is a trumpet of prophecy?

It brings the promisees.

6. "The locks of the approaching storm"- the figure of speech used here is?

Metaphor

7. Poet compares the young man to the west wind because...

 He too wild ,swift and proud.

8. Here thorns of life means?

Difficulties

9. Who looks like a corpse within its grave?

The winged seeds

10. Pestilence striken means...

Strom affected

11. Who is the azure sister of the west wind?

The Spring wind.

12. Ode to the west wind conveys Shelley's journey ...

From anguish to hope

13. Chariotest means?

Steer

14. " On the blue surface of thine airy surge" airy surge means...

Waves of air.

15. " Thou dirge of the dying year" here dirge means?

Lament song

16. " Thou dirge of the dying year" here dying years means..

Clossing of the year.

17. All overgrown with azure moss and flowers" - here the word azure means....

Sky blue

18. "Of some fierce meanad"- meanad means..

A frenzied woman worshipper of Bacchus.

19. "Make me thy lyre" here lyre means...

A stringed musical instrument.

20. "Hear oh hear!"- the poet here...

Invoke the west wind to hear his appeal.

21. "Cleave themselves into chasm" here the word chasm means?

Deep hollows.

22. What is Baie's Bay ?

River situated to the west of Naples.



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ODE TO A SKYLARK
 .        ......P.B.Shelley.....

           "To a Skylark" is a poem completed by Percy Bysshe Shelley in late June 1820 and published accompanying his lyrical drama Prometheus Unbound by Charles and James Collier in London.
            It was inspired by an evening walk in the country near Livorno, Italy, with his wife Mary Shelley, and describes the appearance and song of a skylark they come upon.[2] Mary Shelley described the event that inspired Shelley to write "To a Skylark": "In the Spring we spent a week or two near Leghorn (Livorno) ... It was on a beautiful summer evening while wandering among the lanes whose myrtle hedges were the bowers of the fire-flies, that we heard the carolling of the skylark."


TEXT:

Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!
Bird thou never wert,
That from Heaven, or near it,
Pourest thy full heart
In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.

Higher still and higher
From the earth thou springest
Like a cloud of fire;
The blue deep thou wingest,
And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.

In the golden lightning
Of the sunken sun,
O'er which clouds are bright'ning,
Thou dost float and run;
Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.

The pale purple even
Melts around thy flight;
Like a star of Heaven,
In the broad day-light
Thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight,

Keen as are the arrows
Of that silver sphere,
Whose intense lamp narrows
In the white dawn clear
Until we hardly see, we feel that it is there.

All the earth and air
With thy voice is loud,
As, when night is bare,
From one lonely cloud
The moon rains out her beams, and Heaven is overflow'd.

What thou art we know not;
What is most like thee?
From rainbow clouds there flow not
Drops so bright to see
As from thy presence showers a rain of melody.

Like a Poet hidden
In the light of thought,
Singing hymns unbidden,
Till the world is wrought
To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not:

Like a high-born maiden
In a palace-tower,
Soothing her love-laden
Soul in secret hour
With music sweet as love, which overflows her bower:

Like a glow-worm golden
In a dell of dew,
Scattering unbeholden
Its a{:e}real hue
Among the flowers and grass, which screen it from the view:

Like a rose embower'd
In its own green leaves,
By warm winds deflower'd,
Till the scent it gives
Makes faint with too much sweet those heavy-winged thieves:


Sound of vernal showers
On the twinkling grass,
Rain-awaken'd flowers,
All that ever was
Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass.


Teach us, Sprite or Bird,
What sweet thoughts are thine:
I have never heard
Praise of love or wine
That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.


Chorus Hymeneal,
Or triumphal chant,
Match'd with thine would be all
But an empty vaunt,
A thing wherein we feel there is some hidden want.


What objects are the fountains
Of thy happy strain?
What fields, or waves, or mountains?
What shapes of sky or plain?
What love of thine own kind? what ignorance of pain?


With thy clear keen joyance
Languor cannot be:
Shadow of annoyance
Never came near thee:
Thou lovest: but ne'er knew love's sad satiety.


Waking or asleep,
Thou of death must deem
Things more true and deep
Than we mortals dream,
Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream?


We look before and after,
And pine for what is not:
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.


Yet if we could scorn
Hate, and pride, and fear;
If we were things born
Not to shed a tear,
I know not how thy joy we ever should come near.

Better than all measures
Of delightful sound,
Better than all treasures
That in books are found,
Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!


Teach me half the gladness
That thy brain must know,
Such harmonious madness
From my lips would flow
The world should listen then, as I am listening now.



WORD NOTES:

• Blithe - Joyous
• Unpremeditated- Spontaneous / Not planned in advance
• Profuse strain - Melodious Song
• Blue deep - Vast sky
• Sunken sun - Rising sun
• Unbeholden- Unseen
• Sprite - Refreshing rain shower
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IMPORTANT QUESTION:

1. Shelley viewed the Skylark as...

A spirit

2. Hail to thee blithe spirit"- here the word blithe means...

Joyful

3. "In profuse strain of unpremeditated art" - refers to...

Spontaneous song of the Skylark.

4. "In profuse strain of unpremeditated art"..Profuse strain means..

Melodious Song.

5. " Like a cloud of fire/ the blue deep thou singer"- who is reffered to as the cloud of fire?

The Skylark

6. " Like a cloud of fire/ the blue deep thou singer"- blue deep refers to..

The vast sky.

7. " In the golden lightening / Of the sunken sun" - here sunken sun means..

Rising sun.

8. "Like a star of heaven"- who is like a star of heaven?

The Skylark

9. "Thou does float and run"- who floats and run?

 Skylark

10. "Like an unbodied joy...." Unbodied joy means...

Great joy./ Ecstatic joy.

11. Why is the Skylark compared to a star of heaven?

The Skylark remains unseen in the broad daylight like a star.

12. " The pale purple even/ Melta around thy flight"- here the Skylark is compared to...

The evening sky.

13. " But yet I hear thy shrill daylight" shrill daylight refers to the

Song of the Skylark

14. What does mean by unpremeditated?

Not planned out in advance.

15. Unbeholden means...

Unseen.

16. The word vernal refers to which season?

Spring.

17. What does those heavy winged thieves refers to?

Bees.

18. What is hidden in the " dell of dew"?

Glow worm.

19. Who is hidden away in a tower in Shelley's to a Skylark?

A maiden

20. Shelley wishes to the Skylark to ...

Teach him half of the source of its joy.

21. Shelley compared the Skylark to...

A glow worm. A poet. A princess

22. What melta around the Skylark?

The pale purple evening.

23. The glow worm is living in ....

A Dell of dew.

24. In To a Skylark" - what literary device did Shelley use for five straight stanza?

Asyndeton

25. What is the speaker's request in the last stanza of the poen?



26. With what artistic drive Shelley wrote To a Skylark?

Impulse.




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 ODE TO AUTUMN
             ......John Keats.....

"To Autumn" is a poem by English Romantic poet John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821). The work was composed on 19 September 1819 and published in 1820 in a volume of Keats's poetry that included Lamia and The Eve of St. Agnes. "To Autumn" is the final work in a group of poems known as Keats's "1819 odes". Although personal problems left him little time to devote to poetry in 1819, he composed "To Autumn" after a walk near Winchester one autumnal evening. The work marks the end of his poetic career, as he needed to earn money and could no longer devote himself to the lifestyle of a poet. A little over a year following the publication of "To Autumn", Keats died in Rome.

The poem has three eleven-line stanzas which describe a progression through the season, from the late maturation of the crops to the harvest and to the last days of autumn when winter is nearing. The imagery is richly achieved through the personification of Autumn, and the description of its bounty, its sights and sounds. It has parallels in the work of English landscape artists, with Keats himself describing the fields of stubble that he saw on his walk as being like that in a painting.

The work has been interpreted as a meditation on death; as an allegory of artistic creation; as Keats's response to the Peterloo Massacre, which took place in the same year; and as an expression of nationalist sentiment. One of the most anthologised English lyric poems, "To Autumn" has been regarded by critics as one of the most perfect short poems in the English language.







TEXT:

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,

   Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;

Conspiring with him how to load and bless

   With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;

To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,

   And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;

      To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells

   With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,

And still more, later flowers for the bees,

Until they think warm days will never cease,

      For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.

Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?

   Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find

Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,

   Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;

Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,

   Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook

      Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:

And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep

   Steady thy laden head across a brook;

   Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,

      Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.

Where are the songs of spring? Ay, Where are they?

   Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,—

While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,

   And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;

Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn

   Among the river sallows, borne aloft

      Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;

And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;

   Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft

   The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;

      And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

WORD NOTES:

• To the core - fully / thoroughly
• To swell - increase in size.
• Later flowers - Flowers of Autumn.
• Warm days - Summer days.
• Winnowing wind - Wind that separates the corn from the chaff.
• Furrow- Land
• Swath - corn that to be mown.
• Gleaner - one who picks up the corn.
• Ladden head - Head loaded with reaped corn.
• The last oozing - The last drop.
• Barred clouds - Clouds which often gather at the time of sunset in the western sky.
• Bloom - Gloomy Red colour 
• Stubble plains - Remaining part after reaping the cornfield.
• Wailful - Sad.
• Borne alooft - Carried high.
• Bourn - Boundary.
• Red Breast Robin- A bird with red Breast seen in British garden.
• Twitter - chirping noise.
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IMPORTANT QUESTION:



1. What kind of poem Ode to Autumn is?

Horetion Ode.

2. Who is called the "close bosom friend of maturing sun" ?

The Autumn.

3. "Conspiring with him"- with whom was the speaker conspiring ?

The sun.

4. Conspiring with him"- who is conspiring?

The Autumn.

5. Autumn is called....

The season of mists.

6. With what does Autumn fill the fruits to the core?

Ripeness

7. With what does the Autumn plump the hazel shells?

Sweet kernel.

8. "Overbeamed their clammy cells" who is responsible to overbeamed?

Bees.

9. Sometimes who ever seeks abroad may find / thee sitting careless on the grammar floor".-  who is referred to as thee?

The Autumn.

10. "And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep"- who is compared to a gleaner?

The Autumn.

11. " Thou watchest the last oozing hours by hours"- which literary device used here?

Personification.

12. Ode To Autumn personified as...

Harvester , Reaper , Cider presser.

13. " Think not of them"- what is referred to here as them?

The music of the Spring.

14. "Thou hast thy own music too"- who is referred to here as thou?

The Autumn.

15. Who is singing in a wailful choir?

The small gnats.

16. From where the small gnats mourning?

Among the shallows of the river.

17. Full grown lambs were bleating from..

Hilly bourn.

18. Who is whistling from a garden croft?

Red Breast Robin.



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ODE TO NIGHTANGLE
                   .......John Keats....

TEXT:

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
         My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
         One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,
         But being too happy in thine happiness,—
                That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees
                        In some melodious plot
         Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,
                Singest of summer in full-throated ease.

O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been
         Cool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth,
Tasting of Flora and the country green,
         Dance, and Provençal song, and sunburnt mirth!
O for a beaker full of the warm South,
         Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,
                With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,
                        And purple-stained mouth;
         That I might drink, and leave the world unseen,
                And with thee fade away into the forest dim:

Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget
         What thou among the leaves hast never known,
The weariness, the fever, and the fret
         Here, where men sit and hear each other groan;
Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs,
         Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;
                Where but to think is to be full of sorrow
                        And leaden-eyed despairs,
         Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes,
                Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow.

Away! away! for I will fly to thee,
         Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards,
But on the viewless wings of Poesy,
         Though the dull brain perplexes and retards:
Already with thee! tender is the night,
         And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne,
                Cluster'd around by all her starry Fays;
                        But here there is no light,
         Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown
                Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.

I cannot see what flowers are at my feet,
         Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs,
But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet
         Wherewith the seasonable month endows
The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild;
         White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine;
                Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves;
                        And mid-May's eldest child,
         The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine,
                The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves.

Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
         I have been half in love with easeful Death,
Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme,
         To take into the air my quiet breath;
                Now more than ever seems it rich to die,
         To cease upon the midnight with no pain,
                While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad
                        In such an ecstasy!
         Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain—
                   To thy high requiem become a sod.

Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!
         No hungry generations tread thee down;
The voice I hear this passing night was heard
         In ancient days by emperor and clown:
Perhaps the self-same song that found a path
         Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home,
                She stood in tears amid the alien corn;
                        The same that oft-times hath
         Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam
                Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.

Forlorn! the very word is like a bell
         To toll me back from thee to my sole self!
Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well
         As she is fam'd to do, deceiving elf.
Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades
         Past the near meadows, over the still stream,
                Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep
                        In the next valley-glades:
         Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
                Fled is that music:—Do I wake or sleep?


WORD NOTES:

• Hemlock - poisonous plant
• Leathe words - River of forgetfulness in Hedas.
• Vintage - wine made from grapes
• Deep delved of earth- underground
• Flora - Roman Goddess of Flowers
• Provincial song - song of Provincie in the southern France
• Beaker - glass of wine
• Warm south - stimulating wine from southern province
• Blushful- red hue
• Hippocrene- it is one of the fountain mentioned in Greek mythology, drinking it's water makes one archive poetic power.
• Beaded bubbles- bubbles like bead
• Purple stained mouth- mouth stained with red wine
• Laden eyed- despair and hopelessness
• Pine- lament
• Charioted- transported . Bacchus is the Greek God of wine who used to charioted by leopards.
• Poesy - poetic inspiration
• Haply - perhaps 
• Starry Fays- fairy like small stars.
• Verdurous gloom - darkness due to thick green leaves.
• Dewy wine - honey
• Darkling - in the dark
• Requiem - lament song

IMPORTANT QUESTION:

1. Why did the poet say " My heart achrs and a drowsey numbness pains"?

He had been benumbed by the song of the Nightangle.

2. " As though of hemlock I had drunk" what is hemlock?

A poisonous plant.

3. What does mean by Lethe words?

 River of forgetfulness in the Hades.

4. Who is called " the light winged dryad of the trees"?

The Nightangle.

5. "Singest of summer in full throated ease"- who is referred to here?

Nightangle.

6. " Ti's not through envy of thy happy lot"- who is referred to here as thy?

The Nightangle.

7. "Of beachen green"- what is meant by beachen green?

Covered with green beech trees.

8. "Singest of summer in full throated ease"- what does mean by the full throated ease?

Sponteniously and profusely.

9. "O for a draught of vintage"- draught means?

Gulp

10. "O for a draught of vintage" vintage means?

Wine made from grapes.

11. "That has been cooled a long age in the deep delved of earth"- what is meant by the deep delved?

12. "Testing of Flora"- who is Flora?

Roman Goddess of Flowers.

13. What is meant by Provincial song?

Songs of Provincie in the southern England.

14. " The blushful Hippocrene" - what is Hippocrene?

According to Roman mythology Hippocrene is a fountain. Fountain of poetic power.

15. "And purple stained mouth"- it means..

Mouth stained with reddish hue of the setting sun.

16. "What thou among leaves hast never known"- what has not been known?

The weariness the fever and the fret.

17. " And laden eyed despairs "- it means..

A feeling of complete hopelessness.

18. " Where beauty can not...../ ...Beyond tomorrow" here the idea of the line...

The transience of human beauty and love.

19. "Away!Away! For I will fly to thee"- who will fly?

The poet. John Keats.

20. "Away!Away! For I will fly to thee"- who is referred to here as thee?

The Nightangle.

21. The poet wants to fly with the Nightangle...

Depending on the viewless wings of poesy.

22. "And haply the queen moon is on her throne"- here haply means?

Perhaps.

23. "Clustered around by all her starry Fays" here her refers to?

The moon.

24. "To thy high requiem become a sod"- requiem means? Sod means?

Song of prayer.
A piece of turf.

25. "To thy high requiem become a sod"- sod means? Sod refers to?

A piece of turf.
Grave.

26. Who is Bacchus?

The Greek God of wine.

27. " Darkling I listen"- darkling means?

In the dark.

28. " And mid May's eldest child,"- here the child of mid may is?

The musk rose.

29. The musk rose is full of ...

Dewy wine.

30. "Called him soft names in many mused rhymes " whom did the speaker call in his mused rhymes?

Death.

31. The story of Rath is found in...? Who is Ruth?

The Bible.
Ruth is a Moabite woman.


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