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    Name – Zeenat Gazi

    Roll no – 67
    Name of the topic –
    Leisure(Poem)
    Grade -8th
    About the poet
    • William Henry Davies was born in Newport,
    Monmouth shire, Wales.

    • After an apprenticeship as a picture-frame


    maker and a series of laboring jobs, he travelled
    to America.

    • He returned to England after an accident whilst


    jumping a train in Canada, he lost a foot.

    • His first poems were


    published when he was 34. 

    • Most of his poetry is on the subject of nature


    or life on the road and exhibits a natural simple,
    earthy style.

    William Henry Davies • He also wrote two novels and autobiographical


    (3 July 1871- 26 September 1940) works, his best known being Autobiography of a
    Super-Tramp.
    Meaning of the word
    1)Leisure –(n) /ˈlɛʒə/
    the time when you are free from work or other duties and can relax.
    2) bough- (n) /baʊ/
    a large branch of a tree.
     
    3) stream(n) /striːm/
    a continuous flow.
    Couplet 1
    What is this life if, full of care,
    We have no time to stand and stare.
    Couplet 2
    No time to stand beneath the boughs
    Couplet 2
    And stare as long as sheep or cows.
    Couplet 3
    No time to see, when woods we pass
    Couplet 3
    Where squirrels hide
    their nuts in grass.
    Couplet 4
    No time to see, in broad
    daylight,

    Streams full of stars like skies at night.


    Couplet 5
    And watch her feet,
    No time to turn at Beauty’s glance, how they can dance.
    Couplet 6
    No time to wait till her mouth can
    Enrich that smile her eyes began.
    Couplet 7
    A poor life this if, full of care,
    We have no time to stand and stare.
      Rhyming words

    1.Care - stare
    2.boughs - cows
    3.Pass - grass
    4.Glance -dance
    5.Watch - enrich.
    Answer the following questions

    1.What
     
    does the poet think of life today as mentioned in the first stanza?
    2.
     
    Why do you think the poet describes life as poor today?
    3. What are the night skies compared to?
    4.How long do we stare?
     
    5.What are we missing in broad daylight?

    6.What do Beauty's feet do?

    7. Why is the phrase ‘stand and stare' repeated in first and last stanza?
    She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore.
    Alliteration is the repetition of initial
    consonant sounds in successive all
    nearby words.
    Examples of alliteration contained in this poem are:

    1)No time to stand beneath the boughs

    2)And stare as long as sheep or cows.

    3)No time to see, when woods we pass

    4)No time to turn to beauty’s glance


    These mangoes are sweet as honey.
    Simile is used to compare two things and show a
    common quality between them.

    Like and as are commonly used to make such


    comparisons.
    Examples of simile contained in this poem are:

    1)And stare as long as sheep or


    cows.

    2)Streams full of
    stars, like stars at night.
    My room is like a prison.

    My room is a prison.
    In a Metaphor, a word which is in
    standard usage denotes one kind of
    thing, quality or action apply to another
    in the form of a statement of identity
    instead of comparison.
    Life is a journey.
    Example of metaphor contained in this poem is:

    1)No time to turn to beauty’s


    glance.
    The wind whispered through the leaves
    Example of personification contained in this poem is:

    1)No time to turn to beauty’s glance


    And watch her feet, how they can dance.

    2) No time to wait till her mouth can


    Enrich that smile her eyes began.
    Personification is when you give an
    animal or object qualities or abilities
    that only a human can have.
    Evaluation

    1. Say Where . . . . . . .
    (a) do the cows and sheep (a) Beneath the branches of trees
    stand?
    (b) do squirrels store their (b) In the grass
    food?
    (c) do stars shine in the (c) in broad daylight
    daytime?

    (d) does Beauty’s smile begin? (d) in her eyes.


    2. Say where the images from nature given in the poem exist.
    AIR / LAND / WATER

    a) beneath the boughs land a)land


    b) squirrel hide nuts in grass land b)land

    c) streams in daytime water c)water

    d) stars / skies at night air d)air


    Assignment

    Make a paraphrase of the poem ‘Leisure’


    in your own simple words. Write it down
    in your notebook.

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