The Song of Freedom question and answer for 9th standard students. We explained notes of the poem The Song of Freedom.
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Understand the poem
1. Fill in the blanks with the words given in brackets to make it more meaningful.
In this poem, the poet celebrates the …………….. of our nation. It is celebrated with songs and …………… Indians fought for the freedom unitedly leaving ……………to anyone. We are free from the tricks any …………… could play to divide us.
[No chance, freedom, trickster, dance]
Ans: freedom, dance, no chance, trickster.
2. This poem celebrates India’s freedom from the British rule.
a. Quote the lines that refer to freedom.
Ans: “For blissful freedom” and “Freedom is our universal speech”.
b. What, according to the poet, is freedom?
Ans: According to poet freedom is our universal speech.
c. How does he want to celebrate it?
Ans: The poet wanted to celebrate it with songs and dance.
3. What does the poet mean by ‘the universal speech’ and ‘experienced grace’?
Ans: The universal speech means that everyone should enjoys the Freedom of speaking. Experienced grace means that experience made the people to get equality.
4. This poem is not just a description of free India. It is also a description of a glorious India. Do you agree with the statement? If so, which are the undesirable elements that the poet desires to free ourselves from?
Ans: Yes, I agree with the statement. The poet desires to free ourselves from caste born pride and foreigner’s might etc.
5. What differences do you see between ‘the India’ visualized by the poet and the present one?
Ans: The present condition is that there is lot of caste born pride and inequality among the people. People have no peace of mind. But there are lot of difference in visualized India by the poet. Poet says we have freedom of speech. But presently this freedom is unavailable to common people.
Read and appreciate
1. What images or pictures can you visualize when you read the following lines? You can draw or mime or dramatize the action suggested in these lines.
a. This is the hour of song and dance.
Ans: Picture of a dance on the happy moment of freedom.
b. We’ll blow the conch of victory.
Ans: We can enjoy with pride of win over British.
c. Now lie and deceit are dead.
Ans: We can dramatic it.
d. Honour to the ploughman and the worker.
Ans: A salute to farmers and labours.
2. Look at stanza two. Which words are repeated? What effect does this repetition have on the reader?
Ans: The words ‘gone’ is repeated. It is used to emphasis the past evil effects and oppressive rule of British has now gone. We can now enjoy the freedom.
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