List of top English Questions

What is the author’s perception of the limitations of knowledge and learning?
While the poet respected her grandmother’s sentiments of royal grandeur, we can also see that she revolts against it. Identify the lines which bring this out.
Which lines reveal the poet’s criticism of class distinctions?
Is it ‘selfishness’ and ‘callousness’ that makes the poet break her childhood promise to her grandmother of renovating the house? Why does she do nothing about rebuilding the house?
What do you understand of the conflict in the poet’s conscience?
What are the ways in which people are subjected to greater control in the personal spheres than in the wider political sphere?
List the common misconceptions about ‘freedom’ that Shaw tries to debunk.
Why, according to Krishnamurti, are the concepts of freedom and discipline contradictory to one another?
What did you think the poem was about when you read the first few lines?
From which line does the import of the title strike the reader?
What makes for the differences between the timekeeping of the various clocks? What is the implicit comparison?
Why is the act of nature described as ‘precise’?
Which of the following reflects the poet’s attitude towards communal disharmony
1. Critical condemnation
2. Helpless acceptance
3. Wistful lament
Is the poet’s attitude a representation of how the average Indian feels both towards human violence and nature’s fury?
What makes the depiction of a crumbling village house so authentic in the poem? Is this a common feature of most village houses in the context of rapid urbanisation? Is the poet speaking from actual experience?
What aspects of Indian society and history get highlighted in the poem?
Does the poem bring out the contrast between tradition and modernity? Illustrate your answer with examples from the poem.
What imagery does the poet use to delineate Summer’s day more picturesquely than any painter could?
What do you understand by ‘Psalteries of Summer’?
In which lines are creatures attributed with human qualities? How does this add to the beauty of the Summer’s day?
How would you explain the image of the ‘Hindered Flags’?
Why are the pronouns referring to the Sun capitalised?
Give examples from the poem to show that great poetry is a result of close observation of natural phenomena.
How do the ‘trees in their autumn beauty’, ‘dry woodland paths’, ‘October twilight’, ‘still sky’ connect to the poet’s own life?
What do ‘the light tread’ and ‘the sore heart’ refer to?