Sympathy: Class-viii; Lesson-7: Assam.
Sympathy: Class-viii; Lesson-7: Assam.
This poem will help students learn and discuss the importance of kindness and sympathy. Tell your students to recall an incident when they helped someone, or when somebody helped them.
Taking your learners through the pre-reading (warm-up) activity will enable them to prepare to read the poem ' sympathy' with better understanding. This poem will develop values of kindness and sympathy in the learners.
Let's see the questions and answers:
Question no-1: Read the poem and choose the correct options to complete the sentences.
(a) The poet was in deep sorrow. A proud man came and helped him by
(i) offering him kind words
(ii) ignoring him
(iii)giving him gold
(iv) giving him pleasant company
Answer: (iii)giving him gold
(b) When the poet lay in want and grief, the one who helped him was
(i) a rich man
(ii) a poor man
(iii) a proud man
(iv) a holy man
Answer: (ii) a poor man
(c) The poor man gave the poet
(i) a cold look
(ii) sympathy
(iii) gold
(iv) not a kind word
Answer: (ii) sympathy
(d) When the poet's sorrow passed, he went to the proud man and
(i) gave him back the gold
(ii) ignored him
(iii) didn't give back the gold
(iv) helped him
Answer: (i) gave him back the gold
(e) The poet refers to sympathy as 'heavenly' because sympathy
(i) is a feeling found in proud people
(ii) is found only in rich people
(iii) is an ordinary human feeling
(iv) is a blessing from God
Answer: (iv) is a blessing from God
Question no-2:(a) Here are some questions to help you find out how much you have understood the poem:
(i) How did the proud person help the poet when the poet was unhappy?
Answer: The proud person helped the poet by giving the gold.
(ii) What did the poor man do when he found the poet lying in pain and sadness?
Answer: The poor man took bound the poet's head and gave him bread, thus he took care day and night.
(iii) Why does the poet think that he cannot help the poor man back in the same way?
Answer: The poet thinks that he cannot help the poor man back in the same way because the poor man's sympathy and her help it does not depend on the gold. The poet really understanding that money may give back, but sympathy is not a thing to return.
(iv) Why is the poor man's help greater than gold?
Answer: The poor man is a kind person and he is understanding the poet's need helps for that time. So the poor man showed him sympathy and took care of him day and night instead of the gold.
(v) "oh, gold is great but greater far
Is heavenly sympathy."
Why does the poet think so?
Answer: Because Gold is valuable but sympathy and love are far more valuable.
Question no-2:(b) Find in the poem lines that match the meaning of the following sentences.
(i) I was sad and very unhappy.
(ii) I was in need and was sad and hurt.
(iii) He fed me and took care of me.
(iv) Gold is valuable but sympathy and love are far more valuable.
Answer:
(i) I lay in sorrow, deeply distressed.
(ii) I lay in want and grief, and pain.
(iii) He bound my head, he gave me bread.
(iv) Oh, gold is great but greater far
Is heavenly sympathy.
Question no-2(c) Make sentences with the following phrases:
(i) looks were cold:------------------
(ii) night and day:-------------------
(iii) pay him back:--------------------
Answer:
(i) looks were cold: His looks were cold, he gave me gold.
(ii) night and day: He watched me night and day.
(iii) pay him back: How shall I pay him again.
Question no-3: Below are some lines from the poem with some words underlined.
choose the correct meanings of the words from the options given in brackets.
(a) I lay in sorrow, deep distressed (tired/unhappy/angry)
(b) He gave me gold (money/jewelry/sheets)
(c) And blessed his charity (money/kind help/pride)
(d) A poor man passed my way (to move past/stopped me)
(e) Is heavenly sympathy (selfishness/godly goodness/pride)
(f) Greater far is heavenly sympathy ( the feeling of sorry at another's sadness/the feeling of pain/a superior feeling)
Answer:
(a) I lay in sorrow, deep tired.
(b) He gave me jewelry.
(c) And blessed his money.
(d) A poor man to move past my way.
(e) Is godly goodness sympathy.
(f) Greater far is heavenly the feeling of sorry at another's sadness
Question no-4: Let's have fun with words!
The jumbled words below have been taken from the poem. Spell the words correctly. List their antonyms (if any) alongside. Mention whether the words are nouns or adjectives. One has been done for you.
Jumbled Words Correct Words
wsoror ------ ------------sorrow
ymsapyth-------------------sympathy
dkiynl-----------------------kindly
ifegr -----------------v------grief
rdupo------------------------proud
ycahirt----------------------charity
lcod-------------------------cold
Question no-5: As you know, the lines of a poem are not always written like prose. Here are some of the main ideas of the lines of the poem, but in a jumbled order. Rearrange each set of words to get a complete sentence. Remember to start the sentence with a capital letter and end it with a full stop.
(a) deeply/distressed/was/he
(b) heard/a proud man/of/his grief
(c) looks/cold/were/his
(d) didn't offer/he/a/kindly word
(e) the gold/him/back/paid/to/he
(f) even/thanked/him/I
(g) gave him/bread/the poor man/and/him/looked after
(h) than/the poor man's/is/gold/greater/sympathy
Answer: He was deeply distressed, a proud man heard of his grief and his looks were cold but he didn't a kindly word offer. He back to paid him the gold and I thanked him even. The poor man gave him bread and look after him. The poor man's sympathy is greater than gold.
Question no-6: Read the paragraphs and then match them to the appropriate stanza of the poem:
The poet was lying in sorrow and in pain. A poor man saw him and took care of him. He also offered him food to restore the poet's health. He took great care of the poet until the poet regained his health.
When the poet recovered, he went back to the man and repaid all the gold. He also stood straight, offered the man thanks, and blessed him for his help.
Once the poet was full of grief and very depressed. A rich and proud man heard about the poet's problems and came to help him. The proud man offered him money but did not offer any words of sympathy.
The poet wonders how to repay an act of selfless kindness. He realizes that having money to repay a debt is a great thing, but kindness is a heavenly act that cannot be easily repaid.
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