VVI Lines Explanation | Bihar Board Class12 English
1. “At mother’s instance I had taken 2 days leave from the office and in the afternoon I drove Nanukaka to the north block.” VVI Lines Explanation | Bihar Board Class12 English
Explanation – This extract has been taken from ‘A Pinch of Snuff’ written by Manohar Mangolkar. Here the writer says that Nanukaka who is his maternal uncle, had come to his house to see the minister. At the mother’s instance the narrator has taken two days leave from the office so that he may help him in visiting the minister. After taking leave he drives Nanukaka to the North Block to see the minister.
2. “I have a dream that one day this Nation will rise and live out of the true meaning of its creed.”
Explanation – The following extract has been taken from the speech ‘I have a dream’ given by Martin Luther King Jr. Here, he speaks about his dream of seeing Alabama as a developed state free of racial discrimination between the white and the black. The speech had a huge impact in raising public consciousness for civil rights movement.
3. “We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro basic mobility is from a smaller Ghetto to a large one.”
Explanation – This extract has been taken from Martin Luther King’s speech ‘I have a dream’ in which he says about the end of segregation and social discrimination.
He has the determination that we are not satisfied and will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like water which will provide equal opportunity between the black and the white. And they will be judged not according to their skin but according to their merit.
4. “But I shall be told that it is neither number nor multiplicity of pleasures that make the glory of man.”
Explanation – This extract has been taken from the essay ‘Ideas that helped mankind’ written by Bertrand Russell. Here the author tells that it is our intellectual and moral qualities that will make us really civilized and cultured. Simple increasing the number of human beings will not serve this purpose. It is our intellect that makes us different from animals.
5. “Truism of anthropologies”
Explanation – This extract has been taken from the essay ‘A child is born’ written by Germaine Greer from her book ‘Sex and Destiny’. Here the writer talks about the tradition of anthropology that such women do not become members of their new family until they have given birth of a child for the family.
In such societies, Marriage has been arranged and only a child establishes intimate relationship to her and the family.
6. “This means that the cheap daily paper which goes everywhere has most influence.”
Explanation – The following line has been taken from the lesson ‘How free is the press’ written by Dorothy L. Sayers.
Here the writer says that the cheap daily newspaper has stronger impact. It convince the public in contract to the costly or expensive weekly or monthly magazine.
7. “When we speak of freedom of press, we usually mean freedom in a very technical and restricted sense.”
Explanation – The following line has been taken from the lesson ‘How free is the press’ written by Dorothy L. Sayers. Here the writer says that press is free to make people convince about anything through the news. Only at the time of war or emergency the freedom is curtailed.
8. “The very word ‘colour’ reminds me of the variety of hue that is Indian life, as various as our own American human scene.”
Explanation – This extract has been taken from the lesson ‘India through a traveller’s eyes’ written by Pearl S Buck. Here, she wants to draw a comparison between varied Indian life and the American multi-racial scene. India is a country of unity amidst variety.
The people belong to different caste, creed, race, language, religion and physical structure. But they have sense of being Indian. The same thing is also present in America.
9. “Religion is ever present in Indian life, in its best as well as in its worst aspects.”
Explanation – This line has been taken from Pearl S Buck’s essay “India through a traveller’s Eyes” in which she is of the view that religion is always present in Indian life. It has both good and bad aspect. If it is used for the welfare of the humanity, it brings heaven on the earth but on the other hand its bad aspect is its narrow thinking which is harmful for the society.
10. “India has always been part of the background of my life but I had never seen it whole and for myself until now.”
Explanation – The above extract has been taken from the lesson “India through a traveller’s eyes” written by Pearl S Buck. she wants to say that her life is based on India’s background about which she has come to know from her family members and neighbors in her childhood but has not visited India and seen it as a whole up to the time she says so.
VVI Lines Explanation | Bihar Board Class12 English
sigh’st, thou sigh’st not winde,
But sigh’st my soul away,
When thou weep’st, unkindly kinde,
My life blood doth decay.
Explanation – This extract has been taken from the poem ‘Sweetest Love I Do Not Goe’ written by the metaphysical poet by John Donne. Here, he tells about the sorrow of separation from is beloved. He prevents his beloved from weeping bitterly because her sighs will decay his life and blood which will make his journey dangerous.
2. O how feeble is man’s power
That if good fortune fall,
Cannot adde another houre,
Nor a lost houre recall !
But come bad chance,
Explanation – This extract has been taken from the poem ‘Sweetest Love I Do Not Goe’ written by the metaphysical poet by John Donne. Here, he tells that men’s power is so weak that he cannot add another hour in good fortune nor recall his past when bad chance comes in life.
3. They who one another keepe
Alive, ne’r parted bee.
Explanation – This extract has been taken from the poem ‘Sweetest Love I Do Not Goe’ written by the metaphysical poet by John Donne. Here, he tells that those who love each-other can never be parted because they are connected to each-other’s soul. The poet consoles himself and his beloved that true love can be separated only physically not spiritually.
4. And the nightingale is dumb,
And the angel will not come.
Explanation – The following extract has been taken from the poem “Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast” written by W.H. Auden. Here the poet says that the wood has become leafless. Trolls are starving and searching for food. In such situation of grief, the nightingale has become dumb and the situation is so dangerous that even an angel will not come for the rescue.
5. Now the leaves are falling fast,
Nurses flowers will not last;
Nurses to the graves are gone,
And the prams go rolling on.
Explanation – The following extract has been taken from the poem “Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast” written by W.H. Auden. Here the poet says that the promises of love are often deceptive because human life comes to an end with the passage of time which disturb the real delight and makes human life miserable. Here falling of leaves suggests the process of death and human waste on a larger scale.
6. Where are the songs of a spring? Ay where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
Explanation – This extract has been taken from the poem “Ode To Autumn” written by John Keats. Here the poet says that the music of Autumn is not less superior to the music of Spring because in the end of the day the nature produces different types of music and provide so many fleshy fruits which makes people and other creatures very happy.
VVI Lines Explanation | Bihar Board Class12 English
7. But beauty vanishes; beauty passes,
However, rare-rare it be;
Explanation – The above extract has been taken from the poem “An Epitaph” written by Walter De La Mare. Here the poet teaches us the philosophy of mortality. The poet says that physical beauty vanishes with the passage of time however rare it is.
8. And think, this heart, all evil shed away
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts of England given.
Explanation – These lines have been taken from the patriotic poem ‘The Soldier’ written by the poet, Rupert Brooke says that he wants to set away all the evils from the heart for England. He likes freedom, the virtue which is given by his country England.
9. That is forever England. There shall be
In that rIch earth, a richer dust concealed.
Explanation – These lines have been taken from the patriotic poem ‘The Soldier’ written by the poet, Rupert Brooke says that he loves his motherland from his body and soul which is forever of his own country. He says that in a foreign land wherever he will die and be buried, there a richer dust of England will be concealed forever.
10. Macavity, Macavity, there is no one like Macavity,
For he is fiend in feline shape, a monster of depravity.
Explanation – This extract is written by the modern poet, T S Eliot. Here he describes about the mysterious Macavity cat which is incomparable in its mysterious deeds. The poet considers it the monster of deceitfulness.
11. I swore to save fire
From the Sin of forgetfulness.
Explanation – These lines have been taken from the poem ‘Fire Hymn’ written by Keki N Daruwalla. Here the poet wants to save the fire from the sin of negligence of duty to burn the whole body.
12. It never forgot, and twenty years since
As I concerned my first born to the flames.
Explanation – These lines have been taken from the poem ‘Fire Hymn’ written by keki N Daruwalla. Here the poet says that he has not forgotten the cruelty of the fire when he consigned his first born to the flames because the Tower of silence was a thousand miles away. Yet the poet wants to save the fire from the sin of forgetfulness.
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