Bihar Board Class 7 English Book Solutions Chapter 5 I had a Dove
Bihar Board Class 7 English I had a Dove Text Book Questions and Answers
A Warmer
Question 1.
Discuss the following questions in small groups before you read the lesson.
Have you seen a bird in a cage ? What does it do when it is in the cage ? Would you like it if you were told to stay always at home and never go out ?
Answer:
Yes, I have seen a bird in a cage. When it is in a cage it looks very sad. It seems like struggling for its freedom. It tries to break the cage. If I were told to stay always at home and never go out I would become sick.
B. Let’s Comprehend.
B. 1. Think and Tell.
Answer these questions orally
Question 1.
How did the dove die ?
Answer:
The dove died for grieving.
Question 2.
Why didn’t the bird live in the cage as happily as in the forest ?
Answer:
The bird had been caged and lost its freedom.
Question 3.
How can you say that the poet cared for the bird ?
Answer:
The poet often kissed it and gave white peas to eat. He loved and cared the bird much.
B. 2. Think and Write.
B. 2. 1. Write true or false in the space provided
Question 1.
- The dove was given green peas to eat.
- The dove lived in the forest tree.
- The dove was unhappy.
Answer:
- False
- True
- True.
B. 2. 2. Tick (✓) the most appropriate answer to each of the following questions:
Question 1.
Who had woven the thread in the poem ?
(a) a tailor
(b) a dove
(c) the person who had caged the bird.
Answer:
(c) the person who had caged the bird.
Question 2.
The person who had caged the dove felt that the dove had no reason to grieve because :
(a) the dove was being taken care of
(b) the dove was set free from her cage
(c) the dove liked to live in the cage
Answer:
(a) the dove was being taken care of
B. 2. 3. Answer the following questions
Question 1.
What happens to the dove in the poem ?
Answer:
The dove die in the poem.
Question 2.
Pick out the line which shows that the poet took care of the dove.
Answer:
I kissed you oft and gave you white peas.
Question 3.
Did the poet know the cause of the dove’s grieving ?
Answer:
Yes, the poet knew the cause of the dove’s grieving. He knew that the bird lived happily in forest but it was sad in the cage.
Question 4.
The poet calls the dove with different names in the poem. One has been written for you. Can you iden-tify the other names ?
Answer:
(a) sweet dove
(b) sweat little feet
(c) sweet bird
(d) pretty thing
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C. Word Study
C. 1. Making new words
Write the words that you can think about when you read the words given below (forest, green). One example
C. 2. Rhyming words
The words ‘died’ and ‘tried’ rhyme with each other.
They are thus called rhyming words. Pick out other such pairs from the poem.
- grieving – weaving.
- feet – sweet.
- died – tied.
- Peas – trees
D. Grammar
D. 1. Adjectives
In this poem the poet has described the dove using the word ‘sweet’.
‘Sweet’ is called an adjective because it gives more in-formation about the noun’dove’, dove, sweet dove
Can you find how the following words have been described in the poem ?
- trees – green trees
- peas – white peas
- feet – little feet
- thread – silken thread.
Adjectives: green, white, little, silken.
Read this: There were tall trees and lovely flowers in the park.
‘Tali’ and ‘lovely’ are adjectives in the sentence given above.
Rewrite the following sentences by adding appropriate adjectives to the underlined noun. You can take help from the help box.
Question 1.
Grandma bought a shawl
Answer:
Grandma bought a beautiful shawl.
Question 2.
The frog has a tongue.
Answer:
The frog has a sticky tongue.
Question 3.
My mother bought a frock for me from a market.
Answer:
My mother bought a long frock for me from a noisy market.
Question 4.
She threw a ball that broke the glass of the window.
Answer:
She throw a green ball that broke the glass of the window.
Question 5.
The fairy had a wand.
Answer:
The fairy had a magic wand.
Question 6.
The man was walking with his stick.
Answer:
The man was walking with his old stick.
Question 7.
On the tree, there were two birds.
Answer:
On the trees, there were two little birds.
E. Let’s Talk
Question 1.
Discuss with your classmates:
Do you think animals should be caged ?
Answer:
Discuss yourself.
F. Composition
Question 1.
After discussion, write a paragraph on the topic given above in not more than 100 words.
Answer:
Animals should not be caged. The animals also have the right to live in nature, as free as we-live in our society. As we were born free, they are also born free. We dominate them, by caging them. Thus, we bar their freedom and crush their happiness. They can live freely only in their natural habitat. So, we should not cage the animals.
G. Translation
Translate the first stanza of the poem into Hindi.
Question 1.
I had a dove, and the sweet dove died; And I have thought it died of grieving; O, what it could grieve for ? It’s feet were tied With a silken thread of my own hand’s weaving.
Answer:
मेरे पास एक कबूतर था और वह प्यारा कबूतर मर गया और मैंने सोचा कि वह दुःख से मर गया; ओह, उसे दुःख किस बात का होगा? उसके पैर बंधे थे उन्हें मैंने ही अपने ही हाथों से रेशमी धागे से बुना था।
H. Activity
Question 1.
Look at the picture and write five sentences about it. Work in pairs.
(See the picture on page 43 of your text book.)
Answer:
This is a parrot. It is commonly found in our country. Its colour is green. It eats bread, gram (chana), green chilli and other eatables. It can immitate man’s voice very well. We enjoy listening its voice of immitating.
I had a Dove Summary in English
“I had a Dove” is a sweetly composed poem by the great poet John Keats. The poet had kept a dove in his cage.,He had tied its feet with a silken thread, woven by him. It died and the poet became very sad. He thought over the cause of the dove’s death. He thought that he had kept the dove so nicely then why did it die. The poet wants to say in this nice poem that we should not but the birds in the bars or in a cage but let their fly freely in the sky.
I had a Dove Summary in Hindi
‘आई हैंड अ डव’ महान् कवि जॉन कोट्स लिखित एक प्यारी-सी कविता है। जॉन कीट्स ने एक कबूतर पाला था। उसने उसे एक पिंजड़े में रखा हुआ था। उसके पैरों को कवि ने अपने हाथों से बने रेशमी धागे से बाँधा था। वह कबूतर मर गया और कवि गहरी शोक में डूब गया। उसने कबूतर की मौत के बारे में खूब सोचा कि वह उसकी कितनी देखभाल करता था तो भी वह क्यों मर गया? उसे किस बात का दुःख था ? प्रस्तुत कविता के माध्यम से कवि कहना चाहता है कि हमें पक्षियों को कैद न कर उन्हें खुले आकाश में उड़ने की स्वतंत्रता देनी चाहिए।
I had a Dove Glossary
Grieving (ग्रीविंग) = शोक करना । Weaving [वीविंग] = बुनना | Alone.[अलोन] = अकेला I ON [ऑफ्ट] = अक्सर | While peas [वाइट पीज] = सफेद मटर | Like [लाइक] = पसन्द करना | Always [ऑलवेज] = हमेशा । Died [डाइड] = मर गया I Cage [केज] = पिंजड़ा । Dove [डव] = कबूतर, पेडुकी । Sweet [स्वीट] = प्यारा । Thought [थॉट] = सोचा । Tied [टाइड] = बँधे हुए। Silken [सिल्केन) = रेशम का। Thread [थ्रेड) = धागा । Leave [लीव] = छोड़ना । Pretty thing [प्रिटी थिंग] = प्यारी चीज । Sweetly |स्वीटली] = प्यार से । Peas [पीज] = मटर । Thing [थिंग] = चीज।