Q2. A sea of foliage … but not a sea of dull unvaried green
a. Why is the foliage compared to a sea?
Ans: The foliage is compared to a sea as it spreads in every direction, looking vast, endless, and deep like an ocean filled with greenery everywhere around.
b. How is the sea not of dull, unvaried green? Give an example of how the green varies.
Ans: The garden has many shades—light green tamarind leaves, dark clumps of mango trees, and greyish palms. These variations make the garden look colourful instead of dull.
Q3. What effect does the variation have on the garden and the speaker?
Ans: The variation makes the garden lively, bright, and beautiful. It fills the speaker with delight, wonder, and deep appreciation of nature’s colours and freshness all around her.
Q4. Why does the speaker consider the scene among the bamboos the loveliest spot in the garden? What effect does this beauty have on her?
Ans: The scene is magical when moonlight shines through bamboos and the lotus glows like silver. It makes the speaker feel intoxicated with beauty, amazed as if standing in a heavenly Eden.
Q5. … the white lotus changes into a cup of silver. What does this mean?
Ans: The white lotus shines under the moonlight. The silvery glow makes it look like a shining silver cup floating on water, adding a magical charm to the garden scene.
b. Find another simile in the first stanza of the poem. Explain it. What is unusual about this simile?
Ans: “Red-red, and startling like a trumpet’s sound.” The seemul flowers are compared to a trumpet’s sound. It is unusual as it mixes colour with sound, creating a striking image.
Q2. This poem asks us to look all around the garden—not only from one side to another, but also from high above to down below. How does it do that?
Ans: The poem makes us look up at tall palms, sideways at spreading tamarinds, and down at lotuses in pools. It covers every direction, helping us imagine the garden completely.
Q3. How does the poem teil us that the beauty of the garden is almost unbelievable or unreal? You can choose more than one answer.
a. It compares the place to another garden which can only be read about or imagined.
b. It compares objects in the garden to sea and silver, which are not found in gardens.
c. It mentions a sense of surprise in one who looks at the garden.
Ans: The poem shows the garden’s beauty as almost unbelievable because:
(a) it compares the garden to another magical garden that can only be imagined or read about.
(c) it describes the surprise and wonder felt by anyone who looks at it.
So, the correct choices are a and c.
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