Gulmohar Class 7 The Mother Bird Question Answer

 Gulmohar Class 7 The Mother Bird Question Answer

Question 1: What did the speaker mean by 'green twilight'?

Answer:

 The meaning of the word 'twilight' is very dim light which is either during early morning or late evening. The speaker was watching a bird through a hedge. Since it was twilight and the sunlight was coming into the hedge through the gaps of green leaves and twigs, the speaker called it 'green twilight'.

Question 2: Why did the speaker think the bird to be both meek and

brave?

Answer: The speaker describes the mother bird as both meek and brave because the bird first looks at the speaker timidly and fearing the security of its young ones, it pleads with the speaker to leave the place. But just after that, it opens its sharp dagger like  beak and makes fierce noise to frighten the speaker.

Question 3: 1 peered.... Find one more thing that the speaker's eyes do

and one thing that the bird's eyes do in the poem. Why has the speaker used these words to describe what his and the bird's eyes were doing?

Answer: The other thing that the boy's

Forest and eyes were doing is spying the

bird. He was spying on the bird and its nest because he wanted to see the mother bird that how it was conscious about its young ones in the nest.

On the other hand, the mother bird was beseeching the speaker because it had noticed the speaker and she did not like any intruder around her nest. So, she was watchful and pleading the speaker to leave the place.

Question 4: What was the call of the bird like? What was it not like?

Answer: The call of the bird was like a sharp solitary note with a fierce

and vivid cry. It was not like a chirp that sparrows pipe at the daybreak

or a trill that falters through the

quiet evening.

Question 5: Read and answer the questions:

Off, like a fool afraid, I sneaked

(a) Why did the speaker feel like a fool afraid'?

Answer: When the bird made a passionate note of victory, the speaker left the place as if he was scared of the bird's warning. In fact, he was not afraid but he left the place to give relief to the bird. In this way, he pretended to be a fool afraid.

(b) Why does he describe his movement as 'sneaking off'?

Answer: He describes his movement as 'sneaking off' because he did not want to disturb the mother bird or to place quietly without being noticed by it. frighten her. So, he left quietly without being noticed.

[P. No. 102]

1. This poem captures a brief experience very vividly, and to do so, refers to how different things locked, felt or sounded

in those moments. Explain how it does that. You may begin like this.

The hedge where the speaker saw the mother bird was green. The leaves near the speaker felt cool to the touch....

Answer: The hedge where the speaker saw the mother bird was green. The leaves near the speaker felt cool to touch.

The bird looked at him with meekly and brave eyes.

She threatened him with her sharp beak trying to protect

her eggs/birdling. The mother bird let out a desperate, fierce and vivid cry to get the intruder away from her home. The poet left the nest with a sheepish smile on his face as he didn't want to disturb her.

2. Meekly and brave....

Here, two opposite meanings have been brought together to

describe the same thing - the mother bird and her eyes.

Which two similarly unusual combinations have been used

to describe the bird's note? Why do you think such unusual

combinations of words have been used?

Answer: Other unusual combinations are:

a.Valiant tears

b. Hopeless joy

Such unusual combinations are used to express the mixed

emotions that the bird had when she saw the intruder.

3. One deperato, force, and vivid cry

a. Why do you think the bird's cry has been described as desperate, fierce and vivid?

Answer: The sharp warning sound was like a desperate, fierce and a vivid cry as it seemed to express a shout of courage mingled with joy at being successful in scaring the intruder.

b. Why is it stressed that there was only one cry? How has it

been stressed?

Answer: There was only one cry as the mother bird with all her courage and desperation, cried once to scare the intruder and she was successful at her attempt. It has been stressed as 'One desperate, fierce and vivid cry'.