CBSE CLASS 12

AUNT JENNIFER’S TIGERS Aunt Jennifer’s tigers prance across a screen,Bright topaz denizens of a world of green.They do not fear the men beneath the tree;They pace in sleek chivalric certainty. EXPLANATION The poet is talking about a lady whom she addresses as aunt, Jennifer. She is embroidering a piece of cloth. It could be a table cloth or a wall hanging. The pattern […]

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CBSE 11 & 12 LETTER

You are Navneet of 65, P.H. Road, Mangalore. Recently you bought a mobile phone from ‘The Phone Point’, 83, Mount Road, Mangalore. The phone instrument developed a problem within a month of purchase. Write a letter to the dealer giving details of the nature of the problem and asking him/her to rectify the defect or […]

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CBSE VOICE OF THE RAIN

How does the rain justify its claim ‘I am the Poem of Earth’? The rain calls itself the poem of earth because, the poem rendered by a poet,has the task of bringing joy, happiness, life to its readers. In the manner, therain drops, and falling over drought stricken earth, brings new life to the land […]

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CBSE Laburnum Top

She launches away, towards the infinite’. Explain the given line. ‘She’ stands for the goldfinch whose arrival on the tree has suddenly transformed it into a noisy place. After having fed her young ones and having made the tree active and full of life, the goldfinch flies away towards the infinitely vast sky. Why is […]

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ISC The Gift of India

The Gift of India by Sarojini Naidu (India, 1915) About Sarojini Naidu … Known lovingly as the Nightingale of India, Sarojini Naidu (1879-1949) was a patriot, a poet and a crusader for women’s rights. She lived during the time India was in chains, and the British masters came down heavily on any one writing anything critical […]

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