Chse Odisha Alternative English The Goat Paths Question Answer
CHSE Odisha 12th Class Alternative English Solutions Poetry 2 The Goat Paths
Questions For Discussion:
Question 1.
Where are the straying goats found?
Answer:
The goats prefer to go to the heather and not to a grassy field because there was nothing stir.
Question 2.
Why do the goats go to the heather and not to a grassy field?
Answer:
The goats prefer to go to the heather and not to a grassy field because there was nothing stir.
Question 3.
Are these goats different from the others of their kind?
Answer:
These goats are different from the others of their kind because they behave in different way from the others.
Question 4.
How many times para the words relating to ‘quiet’ used in this poem?
Answer:
Five times.
Question 5.
How does the poet related ‘quietly in quietness’ (line 13 to ‘the moving sky’?
(Line 16). If you were to make two sections of the poem how would you divided it?
Answer:
“Quietly in quietness’ means being alone in a lonely place. The moving sky implies the limitless sky.
Question 6.
How would you read of someone called the first section ‘observation’ and the second ‘reflection’?
Answer:
It would be right to say that the first section of the poem is based on ‘observation’ and the second section on ‘reflection’.
Question 7.
What do you notice in the voice of the poet? urgency, defiance, arrogance, envy, frustration, expectation or a sense of oneness with God’s creation?
Answer:
Urgency, defiance, expectation, a sense of oneness with God’s creation.
Question 8.
What does the poet say he would do when his ‘sunny solitude’ is distributed?
Answer:
He would stray apart and brood, he would beat a hidden way through the quiet heather spray in the sunny solitude.
Question 9.
Why does the poet call the goats ‘wise’?
Answer:
The poet calls the goats wise because they brood and beat the hidden way through the quiet heather spray in the sunny solitude.
Question 10.
The expression ‘IfI were’ conveys a wish. What is the poet’s wish?
Answer:
The poet’s wish is to be wise enough to brood and beat the hidden way through the quiet heather spray to a sunny solitude. He would run away and make an angry sound and would stare and turn and bound to the deeper silence where nothing disturbs.
Question 11.
I would think until I found/something I can never find’. How would you comment on the complexity of thought implicit in these lines?
Answer:
It is just like attaining the unattainable. The first lines is in simple past tense while the second line occurs in simple present form. The use of simple past in the present delineates are unfulfilled of he poet who would never find it. Hence, it is unfulfilled wish.
Question 12.
Can you write a simple paraphrase of the last stanza?
Answer:
The last stanza speaks of attaining of the unattainable. The poet makes use of the simple past tense form of verb, that is ‘found’ in the present context. The grammatical usage of such expression explains the unfulfilled wish of the poet. The poet is of the view that he will go on thinking until he has found what he can never find.
Question 13.
Point out same of the striking images in the poem?
Answer:
There are some striking images in the poem. They are-crooked paths, sunny quietness, crouching, beaten way etc.
Question 14.
What purpose do the words ‘quiet sunniness’. Sunny quietness’ ‘deeper sunniness’, ‘Quietly in quietness’. ‘Sunny quietude’. ‘Sunny solitude’ serve?
(i) They cast a spell on the reader.
(ii) They add to the musically of the poem
(iii) They are meant to create ambiguity for the reader.
Answer:
(iii) They are meant to create ambiguity for the reader.
Question 15.
Can you think of possible revisions of the following lines of the poem?
Line 17: “If you approach they run away.”
Line 30: “And should you come I’d run away”
Answer:
“If you approach they run away”
“If you come I’d run away”