Class 9th English Chapter-8 The Noble Nature Question Answer

E. Let’s Understand The Poem:

Read the poem silently and try to find out the answer to the following.
Discuss the answers with your partner.

Q1. What is noteworthy in an oak?
Ans: An oak tree is a large tree with tough, hardwood. It is a European tree that lives for about three hundred years. It is noteworthy for its largeness and longevity.

Q2. Who is fairer: an oak or a lily? How?
Ans: A lily is fairer than an oak. A lily appears only for a day but it gives pleasure and fragrance as it is a flower of light.

Q3. What ultimately happens to an oak?
Ans: An oak tree grows large in size and lives for many years. Ultimately it becomes bald, sere, and finally falls to the ground.

Q4. Is a man blessed with a long life and material prosperity?
Ans: No, a man is not at all blessed with a long life and material prosperity. The lifetime of man is very short in comparison with an oak.

Q5. What are your impressions about the lily? (Clue: Ref. to L7 and 8)
Ans: The lily is a tiny flower and it lives for a day. It falls and dies that night. Still, it is a flower of light. It gives pleasure to its nobility.

Q6. Can a short life be perfect? Which lines suggest this and how?
Ans: No doubt a short life can be perfect. The lines “In small proportions, we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be ” suggest this. The poet says that big size and long life do not make him worthy. Even the small and short-lived can be perfect by virtue of their noble qualities.

Q7. Choose the best possible meaning of ‘Just’ in line with the following :
(a) only a short time ago

(b)really

F. Let’s Appreciate The Poem:
(a) Comprehension questions :

Q1. Why is a lily far fairer than an oak?
Ans: The qualities of a lily flower though small and short-lived is better than oak. So a lily is far fairer than an oak.

Q2. Which qualities make a man noble?
Ans: Noble qualities like truthfulness, righteousness, rationality, etc. make a man noble.

Q3. Is long life a yardstick to judge the worth of a human being?
Ans: Long life is not a yardstick to judge the worth of a human being. It is the good qualities of a man that matter.

Q4. Do you agree with the idea that in short measures life may perfect be?
Ans: I do agree with the idea that in short measures life may be perfect as it is in the case of a lily.

Q5. Of a day, that night, smell, short – what do these suggest?
Ans: These words suggest that the life of a short-lived is perfect like the life of a lily.

(b) Read the last four lines of the poem and answer the following by choosing the most appropriate option given for each.

Q1. We see beauty in lily because
(i) it is short-lived
(ii) it is the flower of light
(iii) small is beautiful
(iv) it is not like an oak
Ans:(ii) it is the flower of light

Q2. The poet’s philosophy of life is that
(i) one must enjoy life to the fullest extent
(ii) one must make others happy
(iii) small things can make life beautiful
(iv) longevity should be the good of our life
Ans:(iii) small things can make life beautiful

Q3. In a phrase of the poem, the poet suggests that a ‘short life’ is
(i) die that night
(ii) flower of light
(iii) small proportions
(iv) short measures
Ans:(iv) short measures

Q4.If you were asked to describe lily in a few words, how would you do it in the context of the poem?
(i) a flower-bearing plant
(ii) beautiful but short-lived
(iii) a water plant
(iv) sweet-smelling flower
Ans:(ii) beautiful but short-lived

G. Let’s Do The Activities:
(a) Now, read the poem aloud with your friends.

(b) Do you want to be a noble human being? Discuss it in groups.
Ans: Yes, I want to be a noble human being. First of all, I’ll try my best to make others happy by virtue of my good qualities. Because I know that I am short-lived. During that period I’ll also make my life perfect.

(c) Have you read the Odia poem, Sefali Prati by Kuntala Kumari Sabat? If not, read the poem and find out the similarities.
Ans:Yes, I have read the Odia poem ‘Sefali Prati’ by Kuntala Kumari Sabat. It is very similar to the present poem ‘The Noble Nature’. Shefali is a small flower that blooms for a night, but it fascinates people with its beauty and sweet fragrance. It gives pleasure to everybody even if it is short-lived. Similarly, in this poem, the poet says that though the lily is a short-lived flower, still it attracts people with its natural beauty and fragrance.

Class 9th English Chapter-8 The Noble Nature Question Answer

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