2nd PUC when you are old questions and answers

2nd PUC when you are old 1-Mark questions and answers

1.When does the speaker tell his beloved to take down the book of memories?

Ans: When his beloved is old / gray / full of sleep / nodding by the fire.

2.How does the speaker suggest to read ‘this book’?

Ans: Slowly.

3.What does the speaker ask his beloved to have?

Ans: To dream of the sott look their eyes had once.

4.Who, according to the lover loved his beloved’s physical beauty and grace?

Ans: The others.

5.What did the speaker love in his beloved?

Ans: The pilgrim soul

The speaker loved the ______of his beloved’s changing face in When you are old.

(a) grace

(b) sorrows

(c) soft love

Ans: the sorrows of her changing face. OR (b) sorrows

6.Your changing face’ in the poem suggests

a.her soul’s search for something meaningful.

b.her beauty with love false or true

c.her eyes and of their shadows

Ans: a. her soul’s search for something meaningful.

7.What does the speaker ask his beloved to murmur, a little sadly?

Ans: How love fled.

8.Where did the love pace upon?

Ans: The mountains overhead.

9.Where did the love hide his face?

Ans: Amid a crowd of stars.

10.”….. how love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars”

The ‘figure of speech’ here is

Simile
Metaphor
Personification

Ans: c. personification

11.Why will the speaker’s beloved feel sad?

Ans: That love also vanished.

12. Mention anyone of the aspects that the speaker loved in his beloved in “When You Are Old”.

Ans: Her pilgrim soul/the sorrows of her changing face.

13.What does the speaker want his beloved to dream of in “When You Are Old’?

What does the speaker in “When you are old’ suggest to his beloved to dreanm of?

Ans: Soft look her eyes had once.

14.What does the speaker want his beloved to do sitting by the fire in “When you Are Old”?

Ans: To slowly read the book/ to dream about the soft look

15.Where, according to the speaker, had love hidden his face in ‘When You Are Old’?

Ans: According to the speaker love had hidden his face amid a crowd of stars.

16.What does the speaker want his beloved to do when she is old in When You Are Old’?

Ans: To take down the book and slowly read / remember her past

17.What does the speaker want his beloved to do sitting by the fire in, When You are Old’?

Ans: To take down the book and slowly read it.

18.Where according to the speaker, had love hidden his face, in “When You Are Old’?

Ans: Amid a crowd of stars.

19.What does poet mean when he refers to the book’?

Ans: The book of poems.

20.Your changing face’ refers to..

Ans: Her soul’s search for something meaningful and her beauty will fade away.

21.What does ‘the pilgrim soul’ mean?

Ans: The questing soul.

22.In ‘When you are old’, the speaker suggests to his beloved to slowly read his book. When she is

(a) glad

(b) old

(c) proved

Ans: (b) old

23.The speaker in ‘When you are old’ addresses

(a) a young lady

(b) an old lady

(c) a little girl.

Ans: (a) a young lady

24.When according to the speaker in ‘When you are old’ will the lady be ‘gray and full of sleep”

Ans: When the lady is old.

25.Who according to the speaker in ‘When you are old’, will be nodding by fire?

Ans: The old lady

26.What does the speaker in ‘When you are old’, want his beloved to do sitting by the fire?

Ans: to take down the books of poems

27.According to the speaker in ‘When you are old’, what did many admire the lady for?

Ans: admired for her moments of glad grace.

28.In the poem “VWhen you are old’, many loved the Lady’s

(a) huge wealth

(b) physical beauty

(c) pilgrim sart.

Ans: (b) physical beauty

29.Who according to the speaker in When you are old’ loved the beloved’s pilgrim soul?

Ans: the speaker himself.

30.Whose pilgrim soul did the speaker in ‘When you are old’ love ?

Ans: his beloved’s

31.What did the speaker in “When you are old’ love besides the pilgrim soul?

Ans: Sorrows of her changing face.

32.Who according to the speaker in ‘When you are old’, fled and hid his face?

Ans: The lover/The love

33.Where according to the speaker in ‘When you are old’, did love pace upon?

Ans: the mountains

34.What according to the speaker in “When you are old’, did love hide amid a crowd of stars?

Ans: his face

35.Where according to the speaker in “When you are old’, did love hide his face?

Ans: amid a crowd of stars.

2nd PUC when you are old 4-Mark questions and answers

1.How does the speaker distinguish his love from that of the others in the poem When You Are Old’?

How does the speaker in When you are old’, bringout his love for his beloved against the changing circumstances and ravages of time?

What does the speaker in ‘When you are old’ suggest to his beloved to reflect upon?

2.True love is related to soul but not to the physical beauty’. How is this idea brought out in poem ‘When you are old?

Ans: The speaker points out that so many men love the lady’s beauty and her moments of glad grace and triumph. But he loved the pilgrim soul in her. That means unlike other men, he loved her for, who is deep inside. Others loved her for her physical beauty imagining her beauty with love false or true. Their love is transitory as he knew that the physical beauty is ravaged by time. Whereas the speaker loved her pilgrim soul and the sorrows of her changing face. The pilgrim soul is the independent frame of mind of his lady and is not subjected to ravages of time. The speaker contrasts his love with others. Others love only her glad grace and beauty where as he loved her sorrows of changing face and the pilgrim soul or the questing Soul.

How does the speaker contrast his love with that of many others in “When you are old”?

How does the poem “When you are old’ distinguish the speaker’s love from that of others?

When you are old”, bringsout the transient nature of beauty and pertormance of love. Explain.

2nd PUC when you are old 6-Mark questions and answers

1.The speaker addresses a young lady in her old age.’ Comment on the time sequence used by the poet in ‘When you Are Old’.

When you are old’ makes the beloved look back on her youth. Discuss.

The speaker in “When you are old’, is not addressing an old lady. Explain.

Whose love in “When you are old’ is immortal? How does the poem present this?

Ans: The speaker is addressing the young lady drawing her attention to her old age. He asks her to read slowly the book containing poems, nodding by the fire to see the words by light. Remembering the past while reading the book, she got in her memory her youthful beauty and the many who admired her. Those young admirers were attracted by her physical beauty and grace. Only the speaker loved her pilgrim soul and her soul’s search for something meaningful. He loved the sorrows of her changing face. However, she will also feel sad that love would also vanish. Reminding of her repentance, the speaker warned the young lady of her transitory beauty. The speaker, a softly spoken, wants her to look up from the glowing bars of an artificial flame to find him shining brightly among the stars. In this poem, the speaker looks at her wilh love whereas others with infatuation. As people get older, attitude to love should not change instead the bondage of love become strong. Physical ailment and mental agony are not biased to love.

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