Class 7 - L13 - Only God can Make a Tree

13. Only God can Make a Tree

Word Meanings - 

Poem (पोयम) = कविता

Prest (प्रेस्ट) = दबा हुआ (Pressed का बदला हुआ रूप)

Earth (अर्थ) = पृथ्वी

Breast (ब्रेस्ट) = सीना (स्त्रीलिंग हेतु प्रयुक्त)

Leafy arms (लीफी आर्म्स) = पेड़ की पत्तियों से भरी शाखायें

Pray (प्रे) = प्रार्थना करना

Robin (रॉबिन) = यूरोप में पायी जाने वाली एक छोटी सी चिड़िया 

Bosom (बूजम) = सीना, छाती 

Lain (लेन) = फैला हुआ 

Intimate (इंटिमेट) = प्रिय, आत्मीय, बहुत करीब

Fool (फूल) = मूर्ख, बेवकूफ 

Reading Comprehension

A. Put a (✔ ) tick mark on the correct alternative.

1. Who is 'I' in the poem ?

(a) tree (b) women (c) poet (d) bird

Answer - (c) poet

2. The tree is like -

(a) a mother (b) a child (c) God (d) The Earth

Answer - (b) a child

3. The tree is fed by -

(a) another tree (b) Mother Earth (c) God (d) the Robin

Answer - (b) Mother Earth

4. The Earth in the poem is compared to -

(a) God (b) a little girl (c) a mother (d) a tree

Answer - (c) a mother

5. The hair of the tree is its -

(a) stem (b) branches (c) flowers (d) roots

Answer - (b) branches

B. Answer the following questions.

1. What does the tree wear during summer?

Answer - The tree wears a nest of robins during summer.

2. What part of the tree is referred to as its mouth?

Answer - The root of the tree is referred to as its mouth.

3. How can the tree lift its arms to pray?

Answer - The tree can lift its leafy arms to pray as some of its branches are in upward direction.

4. Which lines show that the tree is a female?

Answer - The following lines show that the tree is a female –

‘And lifts her leafy arms to pray.’

‘A nest of robins in her hair.’

5. Who lives intimately with the tree?

Answer - The rain lives intimately with the tree.

6. What does the tree get from the earth’s sweet flowing breast ?

Answer - The tree gets its food or nutrition from the earth’s sweet flowing breast.

7. What lay in the bosom of the tree?

Answer - The snow lay in the bosom of the tree.

Vocabulary

A. Find out the rhyming pairs of the words.

B. Label the parts of the tree select your words from the list given in the box :

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