GSEB Class 9 English Solutions Poem 4 Saw the Sea

Answer the questions.

Question 1. What does the wind do?
Answer: The wind makes the water of the sea ripple.
In simple words: The wind creates ripples on the surface of the sea.

Question 2. What did the poetess not know about the sun ?
Answer: The poetess did not know that the sun could break apart the entire sea.
In simple words: The poetess was unaware that the sun could split the entire sea into small pieces.

Question 3. How does the sea breathe ?
Answer: The sea breathes in and out by the shore.
In simple words: The sea moves in and out on the beach, like breathing.

1. Read the stanza and answer the questions.

Until I saw the sea
I did not know
that wind
could wrinkle water so
I never knew
that sun
could splinter a whole sea of blue
Nor
did I know before,
a sea breathes in and out
upon a shore

Question 1. Write the rhyming words in the stanza.
Answer: before-shore
In simple words: The words "before" and "shore" rhyme in the poem.

Question 2. What does the wind do?
Answer: The wind makes the water of the sea ripple.
In simple words: The wind creates ripples on the surface of the sea.

Question 3. What did the poetess not know about the sun?
Answer: The poetess did not know that the sun could break apart the entire sea.
In simple words: The poetess was unaware that the sun could split the entire sea.

Question 4. How does the sea breathe?
Answer: The sea breathes in and out by the shore.
In simple words: The sea moves in and out on the beach, like breathing.

Saw the Sea Summary in Gujarati

મેં દરિયો જોયો નહોતો ત્યાં સુધી
મને ખબર ન હતી
કે પવન
પાણીમાં (આમ) સળ પાડી શકે છે
મને ખબર જ ન હતી
કે સૂર્ય (નાં કિરણો)
આખાય દરિયાને ચીરી શકે છે
અને
મને એ પણ ખબર ન હતી,
કે દરિયો (પણ) શ્વાસ લે છે
એક કિનારા પર. — લિલિયન મૂર

Word Meanings:

to wrinkle (રિંકલ) કરચલી પાડવી, સળ પાડવી
to splinter (સિલન્ટર) ચીરીને પાતળી ફાડો કરવી
to breathe (બ્રીધ) શ્વાસ લેવો
shore (શૉર) દરિયાનો કિનારો