NCERT Class 9 English Chapter 19 On Killing a Tree

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NCERT Class 9 English Chapter 19 On Killing a Tree

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On Killing a Tree

Chapter: 19

BEEHIVE – POETRY

STANZAS FOR COMPREHENSION

Read the stanzas given below and answer the questions that follow:

Stanza -1

It takes much time to kill a tree, 

Not a simple jab of the knife 

Will do it. It has grown 

Slowly consuming the earth, 

Rising out of it, feeding 

Upon its crust, absorbing 

Years of sunlight, air, water,

And out of its leprous hide

Sprouting leaves.

Questions

(i) What helps to grow the tree?

(a) Earth.

(b) Air.

(c) Gardener. 

(d) Fertilisers. 

Ans: (a) Earth.

(ii) The roots of the tree remain hidden:

(a) In the water.

(b) In the air.

(c) In the earth. 

(d) No where.

Ans: (c) In the earth.

(iii) One most far, ‘sudden rough blow’:

(a) Cut.

(b) Jab.

(c) Scarching.

(d) Kill.

Ans: (b) Jab.

(iv) The strength of the trees are found in:

(a) Branches. 

(b) Roots.

(c) Stem.

(d) Leaves.

Ans: (d) They had three sounds.

(v) The poet compares the bark of the tree with:

(a) The sunlight.

(b) Leprous hide.

(c) Air and water. 

(d) Sprouting hide.

Ans: (b) Leprous hide.

Stanza-2

So hack and chop

But this alone wont do it.

Not so much pain will do it.

The bleeding bark will heal

And from close to the ground

Will rise curled green twigs,

Miniature boughs

Which if unchecked will expand again

To former size.

Questions

(i) The strength of the tree is exposed when:

(a) It is pulled out.

(b) It is hacked and chopped.

(c) It is snapped.

(d) It is roped out.

Ans: (a) It is pulled out.

(ii) The poet used the word ‘miniature . It states:

(a) Small and tiny.

(b) Sprouting.

(c) Closeness.

(d) Curled twigs.

Ans: (a) Small and tiny.

(iii) The miniature boughs will come down against if it is left:

(a) Unchecked.

(b) Unhurt.

(c) unhacked.

(d) Unharmed.

Ans: (c) Unhacked.

(iv) The title ‘On killing a tree’ establishes:

(a) Force.

(b) Irony.

(c) Hyperbole.

(d) Achievement.

Ans: (b) Irony.

(v) Put out the words in right order:

(i) Twig.

(ii) Trunk.

(iii) Branch. 

(iv) Root.

(a) (iii), (iv), (i), (ii).

(b) (iv), (iii), (i), (ii).

(c) (iv), (ii), (iii), (i). 

(d) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv).

Ans: (c) (iv), (ii), (iii), (i).

Stanza-3

No,

The root is to be pulled out

Out of the anchoring earth; 

It is to be roped, tied,

And pulled out-snapped out

Or pulled out entirely,

Out from the earth-cave,

And the strength of the tree exposed

The source, white and wet,

The most sensitive, hidden 

For years inside the earth.

Questions

(i) What should we do to kill a tree entirely?

(a) Cutting down completely. 

(b) Pulling out the roots.

(c) Cutting the branches only.

(d) devoiding sun, air and water.

Ans: (b) Pulling out the roots.

(ii) The root needs to be pulled out of the:

(a) Firm and soul.

(b) Anchoring earth.

(c) Underground earth. 

(d) Firm earth. 

Ans: (b) Anchoring earth.

(iii) The first step of uprooting a tree is: 

(a) To use the rope. 

(b) To use the bulldozer. 

(c) To burnt it.

(d) None / all of these.

Ans: (a) To use the rope.

(iv) “Out from the earth-cave”, Here ‘cave’ refers to:

(a) The hale.

(b) A hollow around the earth. 

(c) Well made by man. 

(d) A place where animals live.

Ans: (b) A hollow around the earth.

(v) What would happen if a tree is only hacked and chopped?

(a) Tree get angry.

(b) It begins to grow again.

(c) Tree will cry.

(d) Tree will curse you.

Ans: (b) It begins to grow again.

Stanza-4

Then the matter

Of scorching and choking

In sun and air,

Browning, hardening,

Twisting, withering,

And then it is done.

Questions

(i) What meaning do you read ‘then it is done’? 

(a) Killing completely.

(b) Uprooting.

(c) Drying.

(d) Making breathless. 

Ans: (a) Killing completely.

(ii) When a tree a uprooted, if faces:

(a) Buring.

(b) Panic. 

(c) Scorching.

(d) Chocking.

Ans: (c) Scorching. (d) chocking.

(iii) What is the effect of sun and air over it?

(a) Making it wither.

(b) Making it harder.

(c) Making it colourless. 

(d) None / All of these.

Ans: (d) All of these.

(iv) Find a similar word of ‘chocking’:

(a) Unable to drink.

(b) Unable to breathe.

(c) Unable to eat.

(d) Unable to move.

Ans: (b) Unable to breathe.

(v) ‘Withering’ means:

(a) Becoming harder. 

(b) Brown in colour.

(c) Curving.

(d) Drying.

Ans: (d) Drying.

TEXTUAL QUESTIONS

THINKING ABOUT THE POEM

Read the following questions and write your answers in 30-40 words each:

Q.1. Can a ‘simple jab of knife’ kill a tree? Why not? 

Ans: No, simply stabbing a tree with a knife will not kill it. The tree is very strong. It has become thick and stout over the years. Its branches come out again and again.

Q.2. How has the tree grown to its full size? List the words suggestive of its life and activity. 

Ans: The tree has grown to its full size over many years. It has slowly consumed the soil, absorbed sunlight, air and water, and put forth leaves.

Words suggestive of its life and activities-consuming, rising, feeding, absorbing, sprouting.

Q.3. What is the meaning of ‘bleeding bark’? What makes it bleed? 

Ans: ‘Bleeding bark’ means the wounded rind (bark) of the tree.

It is bleeding because it has been hacked and chopped.

Q. 4. The poet says ‘No’ in the beginning of the third stanza. What does he mean by this?

Ans: Here the word ‘No’ means a shift in the argument offered. It bleeds after being cut but it heals itself slowly and comes to the former size. Its roots are deep in the earth which keep it protected. 

Q. 5. What is the meaning of ‘anchoring earth’ and ‘earth cave’?

Ans: (i) ‘Anchoring earth’ here refers that the roots of the tree held it securely in the earth. They hold it properly.

(ii) ‘Earth cave’ here means that after uprooting a tree, the roots come out. There an opening is formed which is generally deep. It is called ‘earth cave’. 

Q. 6. What does he mean by “The strength of the tree exposed’? 

Ans: Here ‘the strength of the tree exposed’ signifies when the roots of the tree are completely pulled out of the earth, which hold it securely, at that time the strength of the tree is exposed. Thus it becomes unprotected.

Q. 7. What finally kills the tree?

Ans: After pulling the tree, its white and wet roots come out. Its source of strength goes so it cannot grow again. It falls dead on the earth. Its branches and leaves become dry. It begins to whither and turns hard brown. Then it is finally killed.