I am the Land extract questions for SSLC exam. Important extract question and answer from the poem I am the land. We discussed notes of the poem I am the land.
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Read the extracts and answer the questions that follow:
1) “You say you own me; I wait”
a) Who does ‘You’ and ‘I ‘refer to?
Ans: ‘You’ refers to people. ‘I’ refers to the earth.
b) What is owned here?
Ans: The earth.
c) How does the speaker wait?
Ans: The earth waits with patience.
2) “You shout, I lie patient. You buy me, I wait with muddy holes.”
a) Who is shouting here?
Ans: The people
b) Who is lying patiently?
Ans: the earth
c) What does ‘muddy holes’ and ‘car lot eyes’ refer to?
Ans: ‘Muddy holes’ refer to the virtual holes on the earth. ‘Car lot eyes’ refer to the earth is staring.
3) “Then someone tickles me, plants life…fruit…grass….trees.”
a) Who does ‘someone’ refer to?
Ans: The farmers
b) Who is tickled?
Ans: The earth is tickled by the farmer.
c) What is the effect of that tickling on it?
Ans: People are using the earth with a number of plants flowers, fruits and trees.
4) “You come with guns, a chain link necklace chokes me now.”
a) Who came with guns?
Ans: The soldiers
b) Who is choked here?
Ans: The earth
c) What does ‘chain link necklace’ mean?
Ans: The fence between the nations is like a necklace around the neck of the earth.
5) “YOU CANNOT PUT A FENCE AROUND THE PLANET EARTH.” (Preparatory exam 2022)
a) Who cannot put fence around the earth?
Ans: People
b) What is the mood of the speaker expressed here?
Ans: The earth is in a mood of self-assertion.
c) Why cannot we put a fence around the around?
Ans: The earth round and it is almost covered with water.
6) “A chain-link necklace chokes me now.”
a) Who has put the chain link necklace?
Ans: The people
b) Who does ‘me’ refer to?
Ans: The land
c) Why was the chain-link necklace put there?
Ans: People who owned the land wanted to protect their property from trespassers. Therefore, they might have put a chain-link necklace around the land.
7) “I am the land. I wait.”
a) Who is the speaker?
Ans: The earth/ the land
b) Why is the speaker wait?
Ans: Because she had oceans of patience.
c) What quality do you see through this statement?
Ans: Patience of the land.
8) “You came with guns.”
a) Who made this remark?
Ans: The earth
b) Who is ‘you’ referred here?
Ans: Soldiers
c) Why do they come with guns?
Ans: To protect their border of the country.
9) “You shout. I lie patient.”
a) Who is shouting here?
Ans: The people
b) What do they shout?
Ans: I buy and won the land.
c) What quality of the speaker is highlighted?
Ans: The quality of patience and self-assertion.
10) “Car lot eyes I stare.”
a) Who is staring here?
Ans: The land
b) What did the speaker stare?
Ans: The scene of making muddy holes by the people.
c) What do you mean by ‘stare’ in this context?
Ans: Look at the things fixedly for a long time.
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