The Echoing Green-Kerala scert-question and answers
Answer the following questions.
1. What does the expression ‘the echoing green’ suggest?
answer: ‘Echo’ refers to something that is repeated; everything in this world goes and comes back again; days, seasons,etc., repeat their cycles. Here, ‘echo’ may also have a reference to the changing seasons.
2. Is Old John happy? Pick out the line to support your
answer.
answer:Old John is happy. ‘Does laugh away care.’
3. Why are the little ones ‘no more merry?
answer: They are tired
4. What effect does the descending sun have on sports?
answer:The sports come to an end.
5. Where do the sisters and the brothers take rest?
answer:Around the laps of their mother.
6. What does the speaker mean by ‘the darkening green?
answer:‘The darkening green’ refers to the end of the day.
Activity 1
1. Read the following lines from the poem ‘The Echoing Green’
The sun does arise,
And make happy the skies.
The merry bells ring
To welcome the spring.
The skylark and thrush,
The birds of the bush,
Sing louder around,
To the bells' cheerful sound,
While our sports shall be seen
On the echoing green.
- ï In line six, the sound of the letter ‘b’ is repeated.
- ï In line nine, the sound of the letter ‘s’ is repeated.
- ï Such a repetition is termed alliteration.
Activity 2
Read the following lines from the poem ‘The Echoing Green.’
Old John with white hair
Does laugh away care,
Sitting under the oak,
Among the old folk.
They laugh at our play,
And soon they all say:
'Such, such were the joys
When we all, girls and boys,
In our youth-time were seen
On the echoing green.'
- ï The two words ‘hair’ and ‘care’ end with the same sound. They are rhyming words.
- ï Identify the other rhyming words and circle them.
Old John with white hair
Does laugh away care,
Sitting under the oak,
Among the old folk.
They laugh at our play,
And soon they all say:
'Such, such were the joys
When we all, girls and boys,
In our youth-time were seen
On the echoing green.'
Activity 3
An old man with white hair sitting under the oak tree, young girls and boys at play, etc., are the visual images that come to our mind when we read the second stanza of the poem. Now, find out the visual images in the following lines. Write them below.
The sun does arise,
And make happy the skies.
The merry bells ring
To welcome the spring.
The skylark and thrush,
The birds of the bush,
Sing louder around,
To the bells' cheerful sound,
While our sports shall be seen
On the echoing green.
Answer:
the rising sun, the children at play
