English Language Club, Govt. PUC Gadag 1
Grim : Borges’ first literary reading
II PU English Passing Package
Dona Leonor: Borges’ mother
( Text Portion- 40 Marks)
Blindness: Borges’ way of life
The below given facts and figures will help you to
answer MCQs 10x1=10 marks Homer : Greek blind poet
snowy dove: Juliet The Odyssey: Greek epic
crows : Juliet’s companions Spengler : Decline of the West
yonder lady: Juliet Book :astounding invention of man
day in night: Romeo Telephone: extension of human voice
garish : sun Telescope: extension of human sight
Monaco: Toy kingdom Microscope: extension of human sight
Gaming house: dirty business Sword : extension of human arms
Roulette: gambling game Plough : extension of human arms
Guillotine: machine to cut the head book : extension of human imagination
The Prophet: Kahlil Gibran Literature: a controlled dream
On Children: Poetic essay The poet: creates heaven on earth
Archer : God Man’s castle : Telephone receiver
Bows : Parents Avenida: Worst place of traffic in Brazil
living arrows: Children Rufus Okeke: Roof for short
Navadanya : Bio diversity farm Marcus Ibe: Minister of Culture
Cormac : South African environmentalist Marcus Ibe: Peoples’ Alliance Party
Carolyn : American historian Maduka: Progressive Organization Party
Tagore : Nobel Prize laureate Motor car: Peoples’ Alliance Party
Vandana Shiva: Monocultures of the Mind Man’s head: Progressive Organization Party
U N report: Harmony with Nature Ezenwa: Man of high traditional title
Tapovan: Rabindranath Tagore Pudukottai: District in Tamil Nadu
Terra Nullius: Empty land for human Arivoli Iyakkam: A Literacy drive
Terra Madre: Mother Earth N Kannammal : Arivoli Central Coordinator
Gallant lover: Don Gonzalo Pudukottai DC: Sheela Rani Chunkath
Silver Maiden: Dona Laura S Kanakarajan:Owner of Ram Cycles
Petra : Dona Laura’s care taker Muthu Bhaskaran: Cycling anthem
Juanito : Don Gonzalo’s caretaker Manormani: A worker and Arivoli volunteer
Reading glass: Don Gonzalo P Sainath: Indian journalist
Valencia: Native place of Don Gonzalo Chaddar tank :Mahad struggle
Maricela: Dona Laura Weekly bath :Wondrous festival
Glad grace: Physical beauty Water :Multi National market
Old man: well versed in agriculture Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet
Art : raison d’etre Too Dear! :Leo Tolstoy
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, English Language Club, Govt. PUC Gadag 2
Study four poems and two short stories to answer difference between poet's love and worldly affairs.
four marks question on lessons. 6x4=24 Marks The poet saysthat he loves sorrows of her changing
face. He loves the pilgrim soul in her. He loves her
1.Romeo and Juliet inner beauty. He says that she failed to notice his
true love.
Introductory paragraph
He says that people love her movement of
The poem Romeo and Juliet is an extract
from William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and glad grace. People love her with false feelings.
Juliet. Montagues and Capulets were the two noble People love the soft look of her eyes. People love
families of Verona. They were arch rivals and her physical beauty. He saysthat old age will teach
known for their animosity. Though Romeo her the difference between true love and worldly
belonged to Montagues, he attended a party affairs. Then she had to bend down and murmur a
hosted by Capulets, in disguise. There in the little sadly for having lost true love which hid his
party he saw Juliet and was fascinated by her face amid a crowd of stars. The poem mirrors
beauty. The poem expresses Romeo and Juliet's the pain and frustration of a true lover. Thepoem
intense and passionate love for each other. showcases the difference between appearance and
reality. The poet says that the love which appears
Romeo's feelings for Juliet
in youthful days, won't last till the end.
Romeo says that Juliet teaches the torches to
3.To The Foot From Its Child
burn bright. She hangs upon the cheekof night like
a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear. She looks like a Brief Summary
snowy dove trooping with crows. She appears as
true beauty on earth. Here Romeo glorifies the 'To The Foot From Its Child' is a poem. Here
beauty of Juliet. He finds that her beauty surpasses the poet says that the child's foot would like to be
the brightness of the burning torches. Romeo was a butterfly or an apple. But in time, stones, bits of
fascinated by the rich and rare beauty of Juliet. He glasses, streets, ladders and the paths in the rough
expresses his desire to touch her and make blessed earth go on teaching the foot that it cannot be a
his rude hand. He openly admits that he had never butterfly or an apple. Then it is defeated and
seen such a true beautyin his life.
condemned to live in a shoe. Here it grows and
Juliet's feelings for Romeo leads life within the shoe like a blind man and
Juliet says that Romeo comes as day in night. becomes eyeless reptile. Then this blind thing
He lies upon the wings of night. He appears like walks without respite. Hardly taking time to bare
new snow on a raven's back. He makes the face of itself in love or sleep; it walks until the whole man
heaven so fine by becoming little stars after the chooses to stop. It dies with the hope that it will
death. Then the world will be in love with night become a butterfly or an apple. The poem satirizes
and hatethe garish sun. Here Juliet is also equally social system which does not support to an
fascinated by the handsome and bright personality individual to fulfilhis dreams.
of Romeo. That's why she begs gentle night to give
her Romeo. It shows intensity of her love feelings. Appreciation
2.When You Are Old The system is the collective whole of the
vested interests of the rich and the powerful in the
Brief Summary society. An ordinary person with simple desires
‘When You Are Old’ is a love poem gets crushed in such a bullying system.
addressed to the poet's beloved Maud Gonne who
The child represents such a brutal system.
was the most beautiful young lady of his time. She
The foot symbolizes the poor and the marginalized
is believed to be the inspiration behind this poem.
in the society. The system makes use of individuals
W B Yeats proposed Maud Gonne, but she rejected
him. The disappointed poet writes down his love to toil for it but the individual is not allowed to
feelings in a book and suggests her to read them realize his or her potential. The foot wants to fly
when she becomes oldand gray. Here he shows the or to becomea fruit on a tree. It aspires for growth
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Grim : Borges’ first literary reading
II PU English Passing Package
Dona Leonor: Borges’ mother
( Text Portion- 40 Marks)
Blindness: Borges’ way of life
The below given facts and figures will help you to
answer MCQs 10x1=10 marks Homer : Greek blind poet
snowy dove: Juliet The Odyssey: Greek epic
crows : Juliet’s companions Spengler : Decline of the West
yonder lady: Juliet Book :astounding invention of man
day in night: Romeo Telephone: extension of human voice
garish : sun Telescope: extension of human sight
Monaco: Toy kingdom Microscope: extension of human sight
Gaming house: dirty business Sword : extension of human arms
Roulette: gambling game Plough : extension of human arms
Guillotine: machine to cut the head book : extension of human imagination
The Prophet: Kahlil Gibran Literature: a controlled dream
On Children: Poetic essay The poet: creates heaven on earth
Archer : God Man’s castle : Telephone receiver
Bows : Parents Avenida: Worst place of traffic in Brazil
living arrows: Children Rufus Okeke: Roof for short
Navadanya : Bio diversity farm Marcus Ibe: Minister of Culture
Cormac : South African environmentalist Marcus Ibe: Peoples’ Alliance Party
Carolyn : American historian Maduka: Progressive Organization Party
Tagore : Nobel Prize laureate Motor car: Peoples’ Alliance Party
Vandana Shiva: Monocultures of the Mind Man’s head: Progressive Organization Party
U N report: Harmony with Nature Ezenwa: Man of high traditional title
Tapovan: Rabindranath Tagore Pudukottai: District in Tamil Nadu
Terra Nullius: Empty land for human Arivoli Iyakkam: A Literacy drive
Terra Madre: Mother Earth N Kannammal : Arivoli Central Coordinator
Gallant lover: Don Gonzalo Pudukottai DC: Sheela Rani Chunkath
Silver Maiden: Dona Laura S Kanakarajan:Owner of Ram Cycles
Petra : Dona Laura’s care taker Muthu Bhaskaran: Cycling anthem
Juanito : Don Gonzalo’s caretaker Manormani: A worker and Arivoli volunteer
Reading glass: Don Gonzalo P Sainath: Indian journalist
Valencia: Native place of Don Gonzalo Chaddar tank :Mahad struggle
Maricela: Dona Laura Weekly bath :Wondrous festival
Glad grace: Physical beauty Water :Multi National market
Old man: well versed in agriculture Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet
Art : raison d’etre Too Dear! :Leo Tolstoy
Contact: 8496853684 for Dimensions-2024 : II PU English Study Material by English Language Club, GPUC,GADAG
, English Language Club, Govt. PUC Gadag 2
Study four poems and two short stories to answer difference between poet's love and worldly affairs.
four marks question on lessons. 6x4=24 Marks The poet saysthat he loves sorrows of her changing
face. He loves the pilgrim soul in her. He loves her
1.Romeo and Juliet inner beauty. He says that she failed to notice his
true love.
Introductory paragraph
He says that people love her movement of
The poem Romeo and Juliet is an extract
from William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and glad grace. People love her with false feelings.
Juliet. Montagues and Capulets were the two noble People love the soft look of her eyes. People love
families of Verona. They were arch rivals and her physical beauty. He saysthat old age will teach
known for their animosity. Though Romeo her the difference between true love and worldly
belonged to Montagues, he attended a party affairs. Then she had to bend down and murmur a
hosted by Capulets, in disguise. There in the little sadly for having lost true love which hid his
party he saw Juliet and was fascinated by her face amid a crowd of stars. The poem mirrors
beauty. The poem expresses Romeo and Juliet's the pain and frustration of a true lover. Thepoem
intense and passionate love for each other. showcases the difference between appearance and
reality. The poet says that the love which appears
Romeo's feelings for Juliet
in youthful days, won't last till the end.
Romeo says that Juliet teaches the torches to
3.To The Foot From Its Child
burn bright. She hangs upon the cheekof night like
a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear. She looks like a Brief Summary
snowy dove trooping with crows. She appears as
true beauty on earth. Here Romeo glorifies the 'To The Foot From Its Child' is a poem. Here
beauty of Juliet. He finds that her beauty surpasses the poet says that the child's foot would like to be
the brightness of the burning torches. Romeo was a butterfly or an apple. But in time, stones, bits of
fascinated by the rich and rare beauty of Juliet. He glasses, streets, ladders and the paths in the rough
expresses his desire to touch her and make blessed earth go on teaching the foot that it cannot be a
his rude hand. He openly admits that he had never butterfly or an apple. Then it is defeated and
seen such a true beautyin his life.
condemned to live in a shoe. Here it grows and
Juliet's feelings for Romeo leads life within the shoe like a blind man and
Juliet says that Romeo comes as day in night. becomes eyeless reptile. Then this blind thing
He lies upon the wings of night. He appears like walks without respite. Hardly taking time to bare
new snow on a raven's back. He makes the face of itself in love or sleep; it walks until the whole man
heaven so fine by becoming little stars after the chooses to stop. It dies with the hope that it will
death. Then the world will be in love with night become a butterfly or an apple. The poem satirizes
and hatethe garish sun. Here Juliet is also equally social system which does not support to an
fascinated by the handsome and bright personality individual to fulfilhis dreams.
of Romeo. That's why she begs gentle night to give
her Romeo. It shows intensity of her love feelings. Appreciation
2.When You Are Old The system is the collective whole of the
vested interests of the rich and the powerful in the
Brief Summary society. An ordinary person with simple desires
‘When You Are Old’ is a love poem gets crushed in such a bullying system.
addressed to the poet's beloved Maud Gonne who
The child represents such a brutal system.
was the most beautiful young lady of his time. She
The foot symbolizes the poor and the marginalized
is believed to be the inspiration behind this poem.
in the society. The system makes use of individuals
W B Yeats proposed Maud Gonne, but she rejected
him. The disappointed poet writes down his love to toil for it but the individual is not allowed to
feelings in a book and suggests her to read them realize his or her potential. The foot wants to fly
when she becomes oldand gray. Here he shows the or to becomea fruit on a tree. It aspires for growth
Contact: 8496853684 for Dimensions-2024 : II PU English Study Material by English Language Club, GPUC,GADAG
