Class-5th English (Poem)

 

Poem : Notebook

Understanding the poem

 

B. Answer the questions.

1. What does the speaker do every morning?

Ans. Every morning, the speaker writes down his questions in his notebook. He then nags his elder brother for the answers as the brother yawns.

 2. Which line in the poem tells us that the speaker uses an old notebook?

Ans. These lines in the poem tell us that the speaker uses an old notebook:

 • Pages of notes I have squiggly-wiggly written.

 • From the start I’ve written down all I’ve ever wondered.

 3. Describe the speaker’s handwriting.

Ans. The speaker’s handwriting is a careless scrawl.

4. What does the speaker wonder about locusts?

Ans. The speaker wonders why locusts are attractive (‘spiffy’).

 5. Why do you think the speaker’s elder brother yawns?

Ans. The speaker’s elder brother probably yawns because he has still not woken up completely.

 6. What puzzles the speaker about curry leaves?

Ans. The speaker knows that ‘curry’ is a sauce with a hot flavour and so wonders where the sauce is in curry leaves. This doubtlessly is all nonsense, and it is not wise to try to find logic in it.

C. Read this line from the poem and answer the questions that follow.

You haven’t read my notebook, no wonder you are foxed

1. Why is the listener ‘foxed’?

Ans. The speaker says that the listener is ‘foxed’ because they would not be able to understand anything unless they read the notebook that has, according to the speaker, all the answers to the questions he talks about

in the poem.

2. Do you think the listener would still be ‘foxed’ if he/she read the speaker’s notebook?

Ans. Yes, I think that the listener would still be ‘foxed’ even after reading the speaker’s notebook as there is hardly any logic in what the speaker has written down in the notebook.

 3. What kind of a person is the speaker in your opinion?

Ans. The speaker seems to be a highly curious person who wants answers to a lot of odd questions. He seems to be slightly obsessed with finding answers to his questions.

 4. Use ‘foxed’ in a sentence of your own.

Ans. I have had strange anonymous letters in my letterbox for the last few days. I am really foxed as to who is sending them to me.

D. Think and answer- do it yourself.

 

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