Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow

1.	Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow:My heart is like a singing birdWhose nest is in a watered shoot;My heart is like an apple-treeWhose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;My heart is like a rainbow shellThat paddles in a halcyon sea;My heart is gladder than all theseBecause my love is come to me.Raise me a dais of silk and down;Hand it with vair and purple dyes;Carve it in doves and pomegranates,And peacocks with a hundred eyes,Work it in gold and silver grapes,In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lysBecause the birthday of my lifeIs come, my love is come to me.1. Write the summary of this poem.2. Explain the following lines:‘My heart is …… come to me.’3. Infer the meanings of the following phrases:(i) Gold and silver grapes(ii) Rainbow shell(iii) peacocks with a hundred eyes4. Change the following words into nouns:(i) golden(ii) silvery
Answer» 1. The poet compares the state of her heart with a singing bird, an apple tree laden with fruits, a rainbow shell. She is happier than all of them because her love is coming to her. She wishes a stage to be prepared with silk and feathers. Squirrel fur should be hung. It should have paintings of birds and fruits. It should have peacock feathers. She has her birthday and her love is coming to her. 2. The poet says that her heart is happier than a singing bird or an apple tree with fruits or a rainbow because her love is coming to her. 3. (i) fruits in glittering colours produced through painting etc. (ii) reflection of a rainbow. (iii) peacock feathers which have eyes-like patterns. 4. (i) gold (ii) silver.

Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow:My heart is like a singing birdWhose nest is in a watered shoot;My heart is like an apple-treeWhose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;My heart is like a rainbow shellThat paddles in a halcyon sea;My heart is gladder than all theseBecause my love is come to me.Raise me a dais of silk and down;Hand it with vair and purple dyes;Carve it in doves and pomegranates,And peacocks with a hundred eyes,Work it in gold and silver grapes,In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lysBecause the birthday of my lifeIs come, my love is come to me.1. Write the summary of this poem.2. Explain the following lines:‘My heart is …… come to me.’3. Infer the meanings of the following phrases:(i) Gold and silver grapes(ii) Rainbow shell(iii) peacocks with a hundred eyes4. Change the following words into nouns:(i) golden(ii) silvery

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1. The poet compares the state of her heart with a singing bird, an apple tree laden with fruits, a rainbow shell. She is happier than all of them because her love is coming to her. She wishes a stage to be prepared with silk and feathers. Squirrel fur should be hung. It should have paintings of birds and fruits. It should have peacock feathers. She has her birthday and her love is coming to her.

2. The poet says that her heart is happier than a singing bird or an apple tree with fruits or a rainbow because her love is coming to her.

3. (i) fruits in glittering colours produced through painting etc.

(ii) reflection of a rainbow.

(iii) peacock feathers which have eyes-like patterns.

4. (i) gold

(ii) silver.

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