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🌾 Poem: Canvas of Soil • Critical Reflection

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Check Your Understanding 3Critical Reflection 3Answer the Following Questions 6All Exercises 12
Q1

I Read the given extracts from the poem and answer the questions that follow.

1. Brushstrokes of seeds, planted true,
Awaiting spring's vibrant hue.

  • (i) The poet has used a metaphor in 'Brushstrokes of seeds'. Which option from those given below uses a metaphor?
    A. Her mother's heart heard her heartfelt request with kindness.
    B. She has a heart of gold.
    C. Her heart did a dance of joy on seeing the new doll.
    D. She has a very kind heart.
  • (ii) Complete the sentence appropriately.
    The phrase 'planted true' is significant because it implies ________________.
  • (iii) Why has the poet used the word 'hue' instead of 'colours' in the extract?
  • (iv) Complete the following analogy correctly with a word from the extract.
    Summer: hot :: Spring: ________________
  • (v) Read the Assertion (A) and the Reason (R) and select the option that is correctly suited.
    (A): Gardeners wait for Spring.
    (R): Gardens are worth painting in Spring.
    A. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
    B. Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
    C. (A) is true but (R) is false.
    D. (A) is false but (R) is true.
  • (i) Answer: B. She has a heart of gold.
  • (ii) Answer: that the seeds are sown with care, precision, and genuine dedication by the gardener.
  • (iii) Answer: To rhyme with the word 'true' in the previous line and to maintain the artistic vocabulary of painting throughout the poem.
  • (iv) Answer: vibrant
  • (v) Answer: C. (A) is true but (R) is false.
Q2

2. Read the given extract from the poem and answer the questions that follow.

Each plot, a canvas wide,
Where art and life coincide.

  • (i) What does 'Each plot' refer to in this extract?
  • (ii) Select which option imitates the rhyme scheme of the extract.
    A. beautiful and clear / laughter and cheer
    B. beautiful and clear / laughter and tears
  • (iii) Select the line from the extract that conveys that gardening blends aesthetic beauty with natural growth.
  • (iv) Complete the following sentence appropriately.
    The plot is likened to a canvas suggesting that ________________.
  • (v) Why has the poet most likely used the word 'wide' instead of 'long' in 'canvas wide'?
  • (i) Answer: It refers to each small patch or piece of ground in a garden where plants and flowers are grown.
  • (ii) Answer: A. beautiful and clear / laughter and cheer
  • (iii) Answer: "Where art and life coincide."
  • (iv) Answer: the soil serves as an open artistic space upon which the gardener creates a living masterpiece of colours and plants.
  • (v) Answer: To rhyme with 'coincide' in the following line and to emphasize the expansive, boundless space for creativity.
Q3

II Give reasons for the comparisons made by the poet in the poem.

  1. A painter is compared to a gardener because ________________.
  2. A palette is like earth as ________________.
  3. The brushstrokes are like seeds because ________________.
  4. A canvas is similar to a garden plot as ________________.
  1. both use vision, patience, and skill to create vibrant works of beauty—one using paint and brushes, and the other using seeds and soil.
  2. the rich soil holds the potential to produce a wide array of colourful flowers, just as a painter's palette holds and mixes different shades of colour.
  3. each seed planted carefully in the earth grows into a splash of colour that forms the garden's image, just as brushstrokes build up a painting.
  4. both act as the foundational surface upon which an artist or a gardener brings their creative imagination to life.