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I Believe that Books will Never Disappear question and answer for class 12
Comprehension I
1. I was educated by my father’s library says Borges. He means ………
(a) school or the university did not educate him.
(b) he educated himself by reading on his own.
(c) he learned through private tuitions held in his father’s library.
Ans: he educated himself by reading on his own.
2. Why did Borges feel guilty about his mother?
Ans: Because he was not more understanding of her while she lived.
3. According to the author, blindness is ………
(a) just a physical handicap.
(b) not a liability.
(c) is actually a resource
Answer:
(c) is actually a resource
4. What according to Borges is the ultimate function of writing?
Ans: It is to bring happiness.
5. Why does Borges prefer to believe that he is not blind?
Ans: Because he has accepted it and enjoys as normal human being.
6. Borges feels that when we read a book what matters is not the author’s intention, but what sense we get out of it. True/False
Ans: True.
7. When does the poetic act happen, according to Borges?
Ans: When the poet writes it and the reader reads it.
8. What cannot be defined without oversimplifying it?
Ans: Poetry
9. Which is the most astounding invention of man?
Ans: The book.
Comprehension II
1. Why does Borges feel remorseful after his mother’s death regarding his relationship with her? Can this experience be generalised?
Ans: Borges feels guilty for not having given his mother a deserved happiness. He regrets that he should have been more understanding of her. He generalises this experience when says that it is true of all children that when the mother dies, the children then realise the importance of mother. She sacrifices her life for her younger ones. Borges’ mother stood by him throughout his writing career.
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2. How does Borges elaborate on Goethe’s words, ‘all that’s near becomes far’?
Ans: Borges loses his eyesight and it is dark world to him. But, his acceptance of the reality gives the bliss of his life. He quotes Goethe, ‘all that’s near becomes far’ meaning all of us are sure to experience the physical loss at one stage with which we are so attached, He says that it is one’s duty to embrace life with things as they are and enjoy. He never thought that he was blind and continued to read, write and buy books.
3. What according to Borges should one think of humiliation and misfortune?
Ans: Luis Borges was an extraordinary individual and a gifted poet who never thought that his blindness would be an obstacle in his life. Humiliation, our misfortunes and our embarrassments are all given to us raw materials as clay so that we may shape our art. He further says that humiliation, misfortune, discord was given to us so that we may transmute them so that we may make from the miserable circumstance of our life eternal works.
4. Discuss Borges views on poetry and poem.
Ans: Borges says that poetry is something so intimate, so essential that it cannot be defined without oversimplifying it. It would be like attempting to define the colour yellow, love and the fall of leaves in the autumn. On the other hand, he says that the poem is nothing more than a series of symbols. He believes that poetry is the poetic act that takes place when the poet writes it, when the reader reads it and it always happens in a slightly different manner.
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5. Why is it important to use language precisely? What example does Borges use to determine this aspect of poetic language?
Ans: It is very important to use language precisely in poetry. Borges says that it is the precise words that elicit the needed emotion. He quotes Emily Dickinson words. She writes in one of her poems, “This quiet dust was gentlemen and ladies”. The idea of dust referring to death, but her use of words ‘gentlemen and ladies’ create magic and poetic effect. If she had written “men and women” instead, it would have failed as poetry.
6. In spite of modern modes of communication, Borges believes that books will not disappear. Illustrate.
Ans: When asked if the books would disappear replaced by other means of modern communication, Borges says, “I believe that books will never disappear. It is impossible that that will happen.” He is of the view that among the many inventions of man, the book is the most astounding invent.
Comprehension III
1. Poetry is magical, mysterious and unexplainable’. How does Borges explain the strange aspect of poetry?
Ans: Borges views poetry as something intimate and very essential. According to him, it is the aesthetic act. He says that poetry is magical, mysterious and unexplainable. If one doesn’t feel the poetic event upon reading it, the poet has failed. Luis Borges quotes Emily Dickinson, she writes about death. The line, “This quiet dust was gentlemen and ladies,” creates such a poetic magic that the reader is arrested by the effect. There are great poets who continue to recreate this magic with their selection of precise words.
I Believe that Books will Never Disappear for class 12
2. How does Borges value literature? Why is it important for the future of mankind?
Ans: In Borges views Literature is a dream, a controlled dream. He owes literature almost everything we are and what we have been and what we will be. Our past is nothing but a sequence of dreams. He says that books are the great memory of all centuries. If books disappear, history would disappear and man would disappear. Literature is the treasure house of mankind’s glorious past and is something sacred, something mortal and something magical which brings happiness. Literature reflects the past life and leads mankind to live better.
Extra questions from I Believe that Books will Never Disappear
1. What was the first literary reading of Borges?
Answer: Grimm’s Fairy Tales in an English Version.
2. Why do all children feel guilty when their mothers die?
Answer: All the children take their mothers for granted when they are around.
3. What is blindness to Borges?
Answer: It is a way of life.
4. Which library was burning in the dream of Borges?
Answer: The library of Alexandria.
5. What does the book always retain even if it is full of errors?
Answer: It retains something sacred and something mortal something magical.
6. When does the poetic act takes place, according to Borges?
Answer: When the poet writes poetry and a reader reads it.
7. When does the poet fail according to Borges?
Answer: When the reader doesn’t feel the poetic event upon reading it, it’s a failure on the part of the poet.
8. What is Borges’ belief about the task of the poet?
Answer: To discover metaphors.
9. Which is the most astounding invention of man according to Borges? Answer: Invention of books.
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10.Whom does Borges consider as an “intelligent and gracious woman”?
Answer: His mother – Dona Leonor.
11. Which is the example of precise words from the poem by Emily Dickinson, according to Borges?
Answer: “This quiet dust was gentlemen and ladies.”
12. When according to Borges, would history and man disappear?
Answer: With the disappearance of the books.
13. Where was Luis Borges educated?
Answer: He was educated in his father’s library.
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