CBSE Book Class 9 English Poetry The Brook

Poetry

UNIT-6

1. Can you match the following?

  (a)  Something that lives for one year biennial

  (b)  Something that lives for about two years perennial

  (c)  Something that lives for more than two years annual

2. Here is a list of a few things. Can you tell how long each of them can live /exist?

  (a) a dog

  (b) an elephant

  (c) a tree

  (d) a human being

  (e) a star

  (f) a mountain

  (g) a river

3. The poem is about a brook. A dictionary would define a brook as a stream or a  small river. Read the poem silently first. After the first reading, the teacher will  make you listen to a recording of the poem. What do you think the poem is all  about? 

I come from  hauntsof  cootand  hern; I make a sudden  sally And sparkle out among the fern,To  bicker  down a valley. 5 By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty  thorpes, a little town, And half a hundred bridges. Till last by Philip's farm I flow 10 To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever. I chatter over stony ways, In little sharps and  trebles, 15 I bubble into  eddyingbays, I  babble  on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and  fallow, And many a fairy  foreland  set 20 With willow-weed and  mallow. I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever. 25 I wind about, and in and out, With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a  lusty trout, And here and there a  grayling, And here and there a foamy flake  30 Upon me, as I travel  With many a silvery waterbreak  Above the golden gravel, And draw them all along, and flow To join the brimming river  35 For men may come and men may go,  But I go on for ever. I steal by lawns and grassy plots, I slide by  hazel  covers I move the sweet  forget-me-nots

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