".... I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me."
(a) Who is the speaker here?
(b) What does he say about his subjects?

"A film the mother-eagle's eye
When her bruised eaglet breathes:"
(a) Explain the comparison made in these lines.
(b) Pick out the words in alliteration.

''And you'll be there anon,
To see your flag - bird flap his vans
When I, to heart's desire
Perched him"!
(a) Who does 'you' refer to ?
(b) Who hoisted the flag ? Where ?
(c) Pick out the words in alliteration.

You hardly could suspect
(So tight he kept his lips compressed scarce any blood came throught)
(a) What could one hardly suspect ?
(b) Why did the young soldier keep his lips compressed ?
(c) What happened to the rider ?

"Out 'twixt the battery - smokes there flew
A rider, bound on bound
Full - galloping"
(a) Who was riding at his fastest ?
(b) What does the phrase 'Full-galloping' mean ?

"Just as perphaps he mused, 'My plans'
That soar, to earth may fall,
Let once my army leader Lannes
Waver at yonder welt"
(a) Why did Napoleon think that his plans that soared might fall to earth ?
(b) Find the rhyme scheme of the above lines.

Let him have lazy days seekfng his deeper motives
Let him seek deep for where he Is born natural
(a) Why does the poet advise his son to have lazy days ?
(b) What is the figure of speech employed in the first line ?

Tell him to be different from other people
if it comes natural and easy being different
(a) What are the poet's thoughts on being different ?
(b) What condition does the poet lay for being different ?

Tell him too much money has killed men
And left them dead years before burial
(a) What happened to the people who wanted too much money ?
(b) Write the words in alliteration in the above lines.

So does a rich soft wanting
Without rich wanting nothing arrives
(a) What does the poet mean by the second line ?
(b) Identify the figure of speech.

The growth of a frail fbwer In a path up
has sometimes shattered and split a rock
(a) What has sometimes split a rock ?
(b) Write the words in alliteration in these lines.

And this might stand him for the storms
and serve him for humdrum monotony
(a) What might stand the poet's son for the storms ?
(b) Give the meaning of the phrase 'humdrum monotony.

"Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil
This labour, by slow prudence to make mild
A rugged people, and thro'soft degrees"
(a) Who is well-loved of Ulysses ?
(b) What is the labour mentioned here ?

"For always roammg with a hungry heart
Much have Iseen and known; cities men
And manners, climates, councils, government"
(a) How did Ulysses go around ?
(b) What did Ulyssescome to know out of his vast travel ?

"I will drink
Life to the lees; All times have enjoyed
Greatly, have suffer'd greatly both with those"
(a) How does Ulysses want to live ?
(b) Describe the experiences of Ulysses.

"A film mother-eagle's eye
When her bruised eaglet breathes"
(a) Who is compared to the mother eagle in the above lines ?
(b) Explain the comparison.

'You're wounded!' 'Nay; his soldier's pride
Touched to the quick, he said:
(a) Why'did the boy contradict Napoleon's words ?
(b) Why was his pride touched ?

"Legs wide, arms locked behind,
As if to balance the prone brow
Oppressive with its mind."
(a) Whose action is described here ?
(b) What is meant by prone brow ?
(c) What is his state of mind ?

Pick out the alliterated words from the poem and write.
And this might stand him for the storms

" - - - - - - Free imaginations
Bringing changes into a world resenting cnenqe".
(a) How does free imagination help the world?
(b) Identify the figure of speech.

Tell him to be a fool ever so often
and to have no shame over having been a fool
yet learning something out of every folly
hnning to repeat none of the cheap follies
(a) Is it a shame to be a fool at times?
(b) What does one learn from every folly?

Tell him time as a stuff can be wasted.
Tell him to be a fool every so often
(a) Why does the poet suggest that time can be wasted?
(b) Identify the figure of speech in the above line.

Tell him solitude is creative if he is strong
and the final decisions are made in silent rooms.
(a) can being in solitude help a strong human being? How?
(b) Identify the figure of speech in the above line.

Life is a soft loam/ be gentle/ go easx.
And this too might serve him."
(a) Why does the poet suggest to take life easy?
(b) Identify the figure of speech in the above line

Life is hard; be steel; be a rock."
(a) How should one face life?
(b) Identify the figure of speech in the above line

One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
(a) Though made weak by time and fate, the hearts are heroic. Explain
(b) Pick out the words in alliteration in the above lines

…………………for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
(a) What was Ulysses' purpose in life?
(b) How long would his venture last?

"Death closes all: but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods"
(a) The above lines convey the undying spirit of Ulysses. Explain
(b) Pick out the words in alliteration in the above lines

"That ever with a frolic welcome took
The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed"
(a) What do 'thunder' and 'sunshine' refer to?
(b) What do we infer about the attitude of the sailors?

"This is my son, mine own Telemachus,
To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle
Well-loved of me';
(a) Who does Ulysses entrust his kingdom to, in his absence?
(b) Bring out the significance of the 'sceptre'.

"Little remains: but every hour is saved
From that eternal silence, something more,
A bringer of new things/ and vile it were"
(a) How is every hour important to Ulysses?
(b) What does the term 'Little remains' convey?

Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move
(a) What is experience compared to?
(b) How do the lines convey that the experience is endless?

"... I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me'.
(a) What does Ulysses do?
(b) Did he enjoy what he was doing? Give reasons.