English Confluence By CL Gautam

Poem-1 DUST OF SNOW by Robert Frost  Read the following stanzas and answer the given questions:        Ex tract {1} The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree GLOSSARY Dust of snow: fine particles of snow; hemlock tree: a poisonous plant. PARAPHRASE The poet is upset and sitting under the hemlock tree. Suddenly a crow sitting on the tree shakes the tree and the fine particles of snow from tree falls on the poet. QUESTIONS (a) Where is the poet sitting presently? (b) How is the poet feeling presently? (c) What do you know about the weather out there? (d) What kind of a tree is hemlock ? (e) How does the 'dust of snow' affect the poet? (f) Give the rhyme scheme as used in the above stanza. Answer  A.Ans. The poet is sitting somewhere under a hemlock tree. B.Ans. He is feeling sad and dejected. C.Ans. It is quite cold naturally as the snow has covered almost everything out there. D.Ans. It is kind of a poisonous and toxic ...

Ch-10  The Sermon At Benares Message The Buddha wants us to understand that this world is full of sufferings, death and decay. Death spares none. Death is the ultimate truth of life. Everything that is born today will die sooner or later. Buddha gave his first sermon at Benares. It is the holiest of places on the bank of the Ganges. His first sermon reflects his wisdom about one inscrutable kind of suffering i.e. death. Here, the Buddha tells about the universality of death which is inevitable and can't be escaped. Theme The Lesson focuses on the Buddha's message as contained in his sermon at Benares. The lesson highlights on the universal truth that suffering and death are inevitable aspect of human life. Gautam Buddha He was the prince named Sidhartha Gautama who left his kingdom for seeking a higher sense of knowledge. He gained his enlightenment from seeing the worlds pain - when he met a sick man, an aged man, a funeral procession and a monk begging for alms. After experie...