The Ballad of Father Gilligan Question Answer CHSE Odisha | Invitation to English 1 | +2 2nd Year
The Ballad of Father Gilligan Question Answer CHSE Odisha | CHSE Odisha Class 12 The Ballad of Father Gilligan Question Answer
1. Why was father Gilligan weary? Was he only tired physically or also exhausted mentally? Justify your answer with examples from the poem?
Ans: Father Gilligan was wearied because half of his flock were in bed or in grave. A number of people were dying and he had to attend them all. He was tired and exhausted.
He says- “I have no rest, nor joy, nor peace.”
2. Why did he seek forgiveness from God? What type of man does this more him to be?
Ans: While father was resting in his house, after being tired, he got a message to attend another sickman. He refused to go. Then he begged forgiveness from God for not being able to attend the sickman. This shows that Father was religious and dutiful. He was a nobleman.
3. How was the night: peaceful and quiet or turbulent and restless? Bring out expressions from the poem to support your answer.
Ans: The night was peaceful and quiet. The stars gradually grew into millions and the leaves shook lightly in the breeze. God covered the world in the darkness of night communicated in the dreams. These expressions from the poem supports the answer.
4. Why was the night been described so?
Ans. The night came and departed quietly with no sound. This is the reason why the Father fell asleep on his chair. Had it been a noisy time, the Father wouldn’t have fallen asleep. It was perhaps God’s desire to give the tired Father a quiet time to relax.
5. What was the reaction of father Gilligan when he woke up from his deep sleep? State why he felt so?
Ans. When father Gilligan woke up, he remembered the sickman, felt himself guilty not for attending the sickman. He thought that the sickman might have died without being attended by him.
6. Bring out the meaning of the expression- “He rode now as he never rode.”
Ans. Father woke up and thought that the sickman might have died. He felt himself guilty not for attending him. To be sure of his position, he rode the horse at high speed without caring the obstacles on the way. He was riding so quickly first time in his life.
7. Find the expressions that show father Gilligan’s concern for the people under his care.
Ans. Father Giligan loved the people of his Parish very much. He attended each sickman in his Parish. He was praying to God for their souls. He was much tired by attending the sickman day and night. He was sorry for the poor souls.
8. Why did the Sickman’s wife say “Father! You come again.”?
Ans: Father reached at the sickman’s house. His wife saw him and being astonished asked – “Father, you come again,” because she had seen father attending her sick husband at night.”
9. Who came to the sickman’s before his death? Why?
Ans: One of God’s angels had come to the sickman before his death. He had come in the guise of father to attend him in his sick bed, to perform Father’s duty.
10. What made father Gilligan kneel and pray?
Ans. When father Gilligan heard from the sickman’s wife about God’s merciful act, he felt gratitude for him and knelt down to pray his greatness.
11. What were his words of gratitude to God?
Ans: When Father Gilligan finds out this has happened, he is filled with gratitude. He thanks God for not letting the poor man suffer without there being anyone who sits with him in his last hours. He also thanks God for having pity on his faithful servant and sending someone to do his job when he himself was too tired to do it.
12. There is an implicit comparison between heavenly creatures and bodies, and their tireless movement with an insignificant person on earth and his inaction. Discuss this comparison.
Ans. God is in heaven. He is ever watchful. He never takes rest, never sleeps. His planets never sleep. They move continuously. His angles are tiredless bodies. But man on earth feels tired after some work and complains heavily as Father Gilligan did. Yet God is merciful upon father Gilligan.
13. What qualities of Father Gilligan do you admire?
Ans: Father Gilligan was dutiful, sincere, loving and conscience-stricken. He was deeply religious, humble. I like his dutifulness for the people of Parish very much.
14. Note each stanza has four lines. In stanza 1, ‘day’ rhymes with ‘lay’. The rhyme scheme is a b c b. Find out whether all the stanzas have the same rhyme scheme?
Ans: Yes, all stanzas have the same rhyming pattern. Out of the four lines, line 1, 2, 3, have different rhymes. But line 2 rhymes with line 4. So the pattern is “a b c d”.