Grade 12th Poem 04

Read the following stanzas and answer the questions given below them:

A thing of beauty is a joy forever Its loveliness increases, it will never Pass into nothingness; but will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
1. How is a thing of beauty a joy forever?

Read the following stanzas and answer the questions given below them:

A thing of beauty is a joy forever Its loveliness increases, it will never Pass into nothingness; but will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

2. What do you understand by a ‘bower’?

Choose the Figures of Speech in the following lines:

‘That for themselves, a cooling covert make’

• A. Alliteration

• B. Antithesis

• C. Inversion

• D. Simile

‘A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

• A. Repetition

• B. Synecdoche

• C. Alliteration

• D. Metaphor

‘Trees old, and young, sprouting a shady boon’

• A. Metaphor

• B. Inversion

• C. Antithesis

• D. Personification

‘For simple sheep; and such are daffodils

• A. Synecdoche

• B. Alliteration

• C. Metaphor

• D. Internal Rhyme

Answer the following questions

List the things of beauty mentioned in the poem.

What makes human beings love life in spite of troubles and sufferings?