Friday, August 1, 2025

8th English : Unit 3 : Poem : Making Life Worth While

 Making Life Worth While 

Poem : Making Life Worth While

1. Comprehension questions.

1. What should we learn from every soul?

Answer: We should learn the good from every soul.

2. What qualities will help us brave the thickening ills of life?

Answer: A little grace, a kind thought, an unfelt aspiration, a bit of courage and a gleam of faith.

3. Why should we make this life worthwhile?

Answer: We should make this life worthwhile to have a glimpse of the brighter skies.

4. What does the poet assure if we make our life worthwhile?

Answer: Heaven is sure to be our property that may be inherited by us, if we make our life worthwhile.

2. Fill in the blanks:

1. We should have a aspiration in life.

2. A bit of courage is need for the darkening sky.

3. One must have a  glimpse of brighter skies to make the life worthwhile.

3. Figure of speech.

Repetition:

Repetition is a literary device that repeats the same words of phrases a few times to make an idea clearer and more memorable. It is used to emphasize a feeling or idea, create rhythm, and bring attention to an idea.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,

But I have promises to keep

And miles to go before I sleep,

and miles to go before I sleep.

                                                                                                         - Robert Frost

Pick out any two lines of repetition from the poem.

Answer: ‘One’ is repeated in the poem like in the lines “one aspiration yet unfelt”; “one bit of courage”.

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