Chapter 4 The Lake Isle of Innisfree

Chapter 4 The Lake Isle of Innisfree LESSON-4 Mp3

 

Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow each :

1. will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made :
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade. (Page 54) (Imp.)

मैं उदूंगा और अब जाऊँगा, और इनिसफ्री जाऊँगा और वहाँ पर मिट्टी और बाड़ की एक छोटी-सी कैबिन बनाऊँगा। मैं वहाँ सेम की नौ कतारें बनाऊँगा, मधुमक्खियों का एक छत्ता, और उस प्यारी (मधुमक्खियों के शोर से भरी) घाटी में अकेला रहूँगा।

 Word Notes : Clay-soil, मिट्टी ; Wattles-fences, बाड़ें; Bean-a plant, a creeper, सेम Rows lines, कतारें; Hive honey comb, छत्ता ; Bee-loud-beloved, प्यारा / loud due to honey- bees' sound, मधुमक्खियों की आवाज से भरा हुआ; Glade — path in a forest, घाटी ।

Questions

(a) What shall the poet build at Innisfree to live in ?
(b) What shall he have there ?
(c) How shall he live there ?
(d) Give the rhyme scheme in this stanza.

Answers

(а) The poet shall build a small cabin of clay and fence.
(b) He shall have nine beam-rows and a honey beehive.
(c) He shall live there alone in that glade.
(d) It is ab ab.

2. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings :
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evenings full of the linnet’s wings. (Page 54) (CBSE 2017)

और मुझे वहाँ कुछ शान्ति मिलेगी क्योंकि शान्ति सुबह के पर्दों से नीचे आराम से आती है जहाँ झींगुर गाता है। वहाँ पर आधी रात चमकती है और दोपहर एक गुलाबी चमक लिये हुये होता है और शाम लिन्नट पक्षी की परों से भरी हुई होती हैं। 

Word Notes: Veils visor, coverings, घूंघट; Cricket a small insect, झींगुर ; Glimmer- shine, चमक ; Purple glow-deep red shine, गुलाबी चमक ; Linneta kind of bird, एक प्रकार का पक्षी ।

Questions

(a) When shall the poet experience ‘peace’ ?
(b) What will T get there ?
(c) What will the evening give to the poet ?
(d) What is the meaning of ‘glimmer’ ?

Answers

(a) The poet shall experience ‘peace’ during the morning when the cricket shall sing.
(b) ‘I’ that is the poet, shall get ‘peace’ in the morning with the cricket’s singing.
(c) Evenings will be full of the linnet’s wings.
(d) “It is ‘shine’.

3. I will arise and go now, for always night and day

I hear the lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore ;

While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core. (Page 54) (V. Imp.)

मैं दूंगा और अब जाऊँगा क्योंकि हमेशा दिन रात मैं झील के पानी को हल्की आवाजों में किनारा छूते हुये सुनता हूँ; जब सड़क के रास्ते या भूरे रंग के पैदल रास्ते पर खड़ा हूँ मैं इसे गहरे दिल में सुनता हूँ। 

Word Notes : Lapping – (here) touching, छूते हुये ; Shore-brink, किनारा ; Pavements मैं path for walking, पैदल चलने का रास्ता ; Grey-brown, भूरे रंग का ; Core-central part, मर्म ।

Questions

(a) Where will the poet go ?
(b) What does he hear now ?
(c) Where does he stand ?
(d) How does the poet hear it ?

Answers

(a) The poet will go to the lake Isle of Innisfree.
(b) He hears the low sounds of lake water lapping its shore.
(c) He stands on the roadway or on the gray pavements.
(d) The poet hears it in the core of his heart.

II. TEXTUAL QUESTIONS
(Page 54)

Thinking About the Poem

I. 1. What kind of place is Innisfree ? Think about :

1. the three things the poet wants to do when he goes back there (stanza I);
2. what he hears and sees there and its effect on him (stanza II);
3. what he hears in his “heart’s core” even when he is far away from Innisfree (stanza III).

2. By now you may have concluded that Innisfree is a simple, natural place, full of beauty and peace. How does the poet contrast it with where he now stands ? (Read stanza III.)

3. Do you think Innisfree is only a place, or a state of mind ? Does the poet actually miss the place of his boyhood days ?

Answers :

1. It is a place where nature is beautiful, alive and full of life.
(i)

(a) He will build a small cabin of clay and fence.
(b) He will have nine-bean rows.
(c) He will have a hive for the honeybees.