"Lear cries out 'you are men of stones' as Cordelia hangs from a broken wall.
I step out into Chandni Chowk, a street once strewn with jasmine flowers for the Empress and the royal women who bought perfumes from Isfahan, fabrics from Dacca, essence from Kabul, glass bangles from Agra.
Beggars now live here in tombs of unknown nobles and forgotten saints while hawkers sell combs and mirrors outside a Sikh temple. Across the street, a theater is showing a Bombay spectacular.
I think of Zafar, poet and Emperor, being led through this street 2024 by British soldiers, his feet in chains, to watch his sons hanged.
In exile he wrote: 'Unfortunate Zafar spent half his life in hope, the other half waiting. He begs for two yards of Delhi for burial.'
He was exiled to Burma, buried in Rangoon."
Which of the following ideas is/are conveyed by this poem?
I step out into Chandni Chowk, a street once strewn with jasmine flowers for the Empress and the royal women who bought perfumes from Isfahan, fabrics from Dacca, essence from Kabul, glass bangles from Agra.
Beggars now live here in tombs of unknown nobles and forgotten saints while hawkers sell combs and mirrors outside a Sikh temple. Across the street, a theater is showing a Bombay spectacular.
I think of Zafar, poet and Emperor, being led through this street 2024 by British soldiers, his feet in chains, to watch his sons hanged.
In exile he wrote: 'Unfortunate Zafar spent half his life in hope, the other half waiting. He begs for two yards of Delhi for burial.'
He was exiled to Burma, buried in Rangoon."
Which of the following ideas is/are conveyed by this poem?
- Delhi is a modern and progressive city despite its imperial past.
- Even Kings may be punished when they commit crimes against their children.
- An exile's sense of loss, and longing for their homeland.
- History is a constant presence all around us.
The Correct Option is C, D
Solution and Explanation
Top Questions on Poems
(B) Read the following poem and write an appreciation of it with the help of the given 5 points in a paragraph format
The Will to Win If you want a thing bad enough to go out and fight for it, work day and night for it, give up your time and your peace and your sleep for it If all that you dream and scheme is about it and life seems useless and worthless without it If you gladly sweat for, fret for and plan for it and lose all your terror of the opposition for it. If you simply go after that thing that you want with all of your capacity, strength and sagacity, faith, hope and confidence and stern pertinacity If neither cold or poverty, famished or gaunt or sickness or pain of body and brain can keep you away from the thing that you want, If dogged and grim you besiege and beset it, with the help of GOD you’ll get it! – Berton Braley You can use the following points while appreciating the given poem:
The title The poet of the poem “Rhyme Scheme” Figures of speech Central idea- What contradictory thoughts did the poet have upon seeing the snake?
- Why did the Mariner hold back the Wedding-Guest?
- What was the symbolic significance of the Albatross's death?
Driving from my parent's
home to Cochin last Friday
morning, I saw my mother, beside me,
doze, open mouthed, her face
ashen like that
of a corpse and realised with
pain
that she was as old as she
looked but soon
put that thought away, and
looked out at Young
Trees sprinting, the merry children spilling
out of their homes, .....
(My Mother at Sixty-six)
Questions Asked in GATE XH-C2 exam
Here are two analogous groups, Group-I and Group-II, that list words in their decreasing order of intensity. Identify the missing word in Group-II.
Abuse \( \rightarrow \) Insult \( \rightarrow \) Ridicule
__________ \( \rightarrow \) Praise \( \rightarrow \) Appreciate
Eight students (P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, and W) are playing musical chairs. The figure indicates their order of position at the start of the game. They play the game by moving forward in a circle in the clockwise direction.
After the 1st round, the 4th student behind P leaves the game.
After the 2nd round, the 5th student behind Q leaves the game.
After the 3rd round, the 3rd student behind V leaves the game.
After the 4th round, the 4th student behind U leaves the game.
Who all are left in the game after the 4th round?
- Which one of the following plots represents \( f(x) = -\frac{|x|}{x} \), where \( x \) is a non-zero real number?
Note: The figures shown are representative. The 12 musical notes are given as \( C, C^\#, D, D^\#, E, F, F^\#, G, G^\#, A, A^\#, B \). Frequency of each note is \( \sqrt[12]{2} \) times the frequency of the previous note. If the frequency of the note C is 130.8 Hz, then the ratio of frequencies of notes F# and C is:
The following figures show three curves generated using an iterative algorithm. The total length of the curve generated after 'Iteration n' is:
