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🌾 Poem: Canvas of Soil • Check Your Understanding

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Q1

I Read the poem again and complete the summary of each stanza by filling in the blanks.

  1. The ________________ is portrayed as a rich palette where gardeners' ________________ flourish in the form of ________________ awaiting spring.
  2. The garden flowers ________________ into a beautiful display of different ________________, resembling ________________ by Mother Nature, in the light of morning.
  3. Each garden ________________ is likened to a wide ________________, integrating art and ________________. Through the efforts of gardeners, gardens transform into still-life ________________.
  1. earth; dreams; seeds
  2. bloom; blossoms; artwork
  3. plot; canvas; life; paintings
Q2

II Select the appropriate title for each stanza from those given below. There are two extra titles.

1. Nature's Work of Art | 2. Sweet-smelling Blossoms | 3. Gardens as Living Canvases | 4. Earth and Possibilities | 5. The Painter's Canvas

  • • Stanza 1: 4. Earth and Possibilities
  • • Stanza 2: 1. Nature's Work of Art
  • • Stanza 3: 3. Gardens as Living Canvases
Q3

III Match the poetic devices in Column 1 to the examples in Column 2.

Column 1 Column 2
1. Imagery [mind pictures](i) appreciative
2. Metaphor [comparison without use of 'like' or 'as'](ii) AABB
3. Rhyme Scheme(iii) 'Blossoms bloom'
4. Tone [what the poet feels](iv) colours, brushstrokes, blossoms, shades of green
5. Mood [what the reader feels](v) a gardener
6. Speaker(vi) garden as a painting, plot as canvas, seeds as brushstrokes
7. Alliteration [same consonant sound](vii) joyful
  • 1. Imagery : (iv) colours, brushstrokes, blossoms, shades of green
  • 2. Metaphor : (vi) garden as a painting, plot as canvas, seeds as brushstrokes
  • 3. Rhyme Scheme : (ii) AABB
  • 4. Tone : (i) appreciative
  • 5. Mood : (vii) joyful
  • 6. Speaker : (v) a gardener
  • 7. Alliteration : (iii) 'Blossoms bloom'