A. Answer
the following briefly.
Question 1.
Who does
‘we’ refer to in the first stanza?
(a) Human
beings
(b)
Machines
Answer:
(b)
Machines
,
Question 2.
Who are the
speakers and listeners of this poem?
Answer:
The
speakers are the Machines which is the brainchild of man. The listeners are the
readers of this poem.
Question 3.
What metals
are obtained from ores and mines? Iron ore
Answer:
Iron,
Copper, Nickel, Lead, Tin, Aluminium, Gold and Chromium are some of the metals
that are obtained from ores and mines.
Question 4.
Mention a
few machines which are hammered to design?
Answer:
Pulley –
Power lift, The Cutting Wedge, The Wheel and Axle are a few machines which are
hammered to design.
,
Question 5.
Mention the
names of a few machines that run on water, coal or oil?
Answer:
Generator,
steam engine, turbine of power plants etc., run on water, coal or oil.
Question 6.
Mention a
few machines used for pulling, pushing, lifting, driving, printing, ploughing,
reading, and writing etc?
Answer:
Pulling –
Pulley, Winch, Elevator, Windlass, Pushing – Motor Engines, Lifting – Crane, „
Hoist, Driving – Car, Omnibus, Caravan, Printing – Typewriter, Computer
printer, Fax machine, Ploughing – Tractor, Reading and Writing – Computer,
Cellular Phones The above are a few machines used for pulling, pushing,
lifting, driving, printing, ploughing, reading, and writing.
Question 7.
Are machines
humble to accept the evolution of the human brain? Why?
Answer:
Yes,
Machines are humble. They know that they are nothing more than the creation of
human brain.
,
Question 8.
What feelings
are evoked in us by the machines in this poem?
Answer:
Pride and
superiority are the feelings evoked in us by the machines in this poem. There
is also the feeling of fear and perusal that no error in handling the machinery
should take place.
Question 9.
‘And a
thousandth of an inch to give us play;
Which of
the following do the machines want to prove from this line?
(a) Once
Machines are fed with fuel, they take a very long time to start.
(b) Once
Machines are fed with fuel, they start quickly.
Answer:
(a) Once
Machines are fed with fuel, they start quickly.
,
Question
10.
And now, if
you will set us to our task, We will serve you four and twenty hours a day!
(a) Who
does the pronoun ‘you’ refer to here?
(b) Whose
task is referred to as ‘our task’ here?
(c) Open
conditional clause is used in the given line. Why ¡s the future tense ‘will
set’ and ‘will serve’ used both in the ‘If clause’ and ¡n the ‘main clause?’
(d) Do the
machines serve us twenty-four hours a day?
(e) Rewrite
the given lines with the ending ‘365 days a year.’
Answer:
(a) ‘You’
refers to the industrialists and the people using the machines.
(b) The
task to be performed for the industrialists by the machines is referred to as
‘our task’.
(c) The
future tense ‘will set’ and ‘will serve’ is used both in the ‘if clause’ and in
the ‘main clause’ to indicate surety and futurity.
(d) Yes,
the machines serve us round the clock and non-stop the entire day.
(e) Some
water, coal, and oil is all we ask,
And a
thousandth of an inch to give us play, lend us your ear:
And now, if
you will set us to our task,
We’ll serve
you three hundred and twenty-four hours a year!
Poetic
Appreciation:
1. “We were
taken from the ore bed and the mine
We were
melted in the furnace and the pit
We were
cast and wrought and hammered to design
We were cut
and filled and tooled and gauged to fit”
(a) Where
are the ore-metals obtained from?
(b) Where
are the metals melted?
(c) Who is
the speaker here?
(d) How are
the machine designed?
(e) Who
does ‘We’ refer to?
(f) Find
out the rhyming words ¡n the above lines?
(g) What is
the rhyme scheme of the above lines?
(h) What is
the figure of speech employed in the above lines?
(i) What is
the alliteration word in the 4th line?
Answers:
(a) The
metals are obtained from the ore-bed and the time
(b) The
metals are melted in the blast furnaces
(c) The
machine is the speaker here
(d) The
machine are designed by casting and hammering
(e) We
refer to machines
(f) Rhyming
words: mine – design; pit – fit;
(g) abab
(h)
Anaphora
(i) filled
– fit
,
2. “Some
water, coal, and oil is all we ask
And a
thousandth of an inch to give us play
And now, if
you will set us to our task
We will
serve you four and twenty hours a day?”
(a) What do
the machines need to run?
(b) What
does the mean “thousandth of an inch to give us play”?
(c) Who
will set the task? (or) Who allots the tasks to the machines?
(d) Who
will serve us twenty-four hours?
(e) Find
out the rhyming words in the above lines?
(f) What is
the rhyme scheme of the above lines?
(g) What is
the figure of speech employed in the last line? / First line
Answers:
(a) The
machines need water, coal, and oil to run.
(b) A very
small place is enough for machines to operate.
(c) Human
beings will set the task.
(d) The
machine will serve us twenty-four hours.
(e) ask –
task; play – day;
(f) abab
(g)
Hyperbole / Anaphora
,
3. “We can
pull and haul and push and lift and drive
We can
print and plough and weave and heat and light
We can run
and race and swim and fly and dive
We can see
and hear and count and read and write”
(a) What
kind of works can machines do?
(b) What
are the rhyming words in the above lines?
(c) What is
the rhyme scheme of the above lines?
(d) What is
the figure of speech employed in the third line? and first line?
Answers:
(a)
Machines can pull, haul, push, drive, print, plough and weave.
(b) drive –
dive; light – write;
(c) abab
(d)
Personification / Oxymoron
,
4. “But
remember, please, the law by which we live
We are not
built to comprehend a lie
We can
neither love nor pity nor forgive
if you make
a slip in handling us you die!”
(a) What
does the machine ask us to remember?
(b) Do
machines purposefully harm us?
(c) What is
the result of the mishandling machine?
(d) What
are the rhyming words given in the above lines?
(e) What is
the rhyme scheme of the above lines?
(f) What is
the figure of speech employed in the third line?
Answers:
(a) They
are operated according to the law.
(b) No,
Machines have no feelings, so they never purposefully harm us.
(c)
Mishandling machines causes death.
(d)
live-forgive; lie-die;
(e) abab
(f) Personification
5. “Though
our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes
It will
vanish and the stars will shine again
Because for
all our power and weight and size
We are
nothing more than children of your brain”
(a) Who is
the speaker of these lines?
(b) who
does ‘Children’ refer to?
(c) What do
machines give out when they run?
(d) Mention
the major themes of the poem?
(e) What
are the rhyming words given in the above lines?
(f) What ¡s
the rhyme scheme of the above lines?
(g) What is
the figure of speech employed in the 1st line?
(h) What ¡s
the figure of speech employed in the last line?
Answers:
(a) The
machines are the speakers.
(b)
Children refer to the machines.
(c) When
they run machines give out smoke.
(d)
Significance of machines, Advance of Technology.
(e)
eyes-size; again-brain.
(f) abab.
(g)
Metaphor.
(h)
Personification.
(OR)
Write the
outline of the poem “The secret of the Machines”, (or)
What
feelings are evoked in us by the machines in the poem, “The secret of the
machines”.
(OR)
Introduction:
The poem
“The secret of machines” deal with the problems of model technology. The poet
informs about how the machines are produced.
Tools of
Machines:
Machines
are made from different kinds of metals. Metals are found in the earth in the
form of ores. Ores are taken from the ore-bed and the mines. They were melted
in the furnace and the pit. They were hammered to design. They are made into
tools of perfection in appearance and quality.
Need of
Machines:
Machines
run by water, coal and oil. A very small place is enough for machines to operate.
They are ready to serve us all around a day. But it did not get tired.
Uses of
Machines:
Machines
are used to pull; to drag without effort; to push; to life and to drive.
Machines are used to print in papers, to plough the fields; to weave cloths; to
heat water and oil. They are used in running, racing, swimming and flying.
Machines are able to see, hear, count, read and write.
Feelings of
Machines:
Machines
run on certain rules. They can neither love nor pity. We should handle it
carefully. Its smoke may hide the sky from our eyes. But the stars will shine
again. Machines are powerful. They have no feelings. They are the children of
the human brain.
Conclusion:
The
machines explain how they serve humanity and state that they are our creation.
Machines cannot create, they just transform things.
(OR)
Lesson: The
secret of machines
Poet: Rudyard
Kipling
Theme:
Importance of machines
Machines
are made from different kinds of metals. The ores of metals are taken from the
ore-bed and mines. They were melted in the furnace and the pit.
They were
hammered to design. Machines run by water, coal, and oil. They can pull, haul,
push, lift, plough, heat, run, swim, fly, see, hear, count, read, and write.
They don’t lie. They can neither love nor pity. We should handle it carefully.
Its smoke may hide the sky from our eyes. But the stars will shine again.
Machines are powerful. They are the children of the human brain.
(OR)
Machines
are made from ores.
Man-made
machines to do work.
They need
water, coal, and oil.
But they
work all around a day.
Machines
are powerful and mighty.
They obey
human commands.
They run on
certain rules.
They have
no feelings like love or pity.
They are
our creations.
They are
the children of human beings.
,
B. Write
your favourite stanza from the poem and find the rhyming scheme.
Some water
coal and oil ¡s all we ask
And a
thousandth of an inch to give us play.
And now, if
you will set us to our task
We will
serve you four and twenty hours a day!
Answer:
The rhyming
words are “ask, task and play, day.
Hence, the
rhyme scheme is a b a b
C. Read the
poem and find the lines for the following poetic devices or write your own
example.
(I)
Personification:
We can pull
and haul and push and lift and drive.
Here the
human attributes are given to the machines.
(II)
Alliteration:
(a) We can
print and plough and weave and heat and light.
Here the
alliterated words are ‘print, plough’.
(b) We can
run and race and swim and fly and dive
The
alliterated words are ‘run, race’
(c) But
remember, please, the law by which we live the words “Law, live; which, we” are
alliterated.
(d) We can
neither love nor pity nor forgive.
The
alliterated words in this line are: “neither, nor”
(III)
Assonance:
Some water,
coal, and oil are all we ask.
The words
‘all, ask’ are in assonance.
(IV)
Hyperbole:
We will
serve you four and twenty hours a day!
The figure
of speech used here is hyperbole.
The Secret
of the Machines Summary of the poem
Samacheer
Kalvi 10th English Guide Poem Chapter 5 The Secret of the Machines img 1
The poem
‘The secret of machines’ describes a machine’s life. It describes the innocent
manner of the machines. The machines are made by cutting, filing, etc and they
work for four and twenty hours a day. The machines ask humans to remember that
they work by the law of physics. If they have not cared properly the results
will be fatal. The machines tell us that they are not build to comprehend a
lie. At last, the machines agree that they are not only the children of the
human brain.
Glossary:
furnace (n)
– an enclosed structure in which material is heated to very high temperatures
wrought
(adj) – beaten out of shape by hammering
gauge (n) –
an instrument that measures perfection in appearance and quality
thousandth
(adv) – a fraction of thousand
haul (y) –
pull or drag with effort or force
comprehend
(v) – grasp, understand
vanish(v) –
disappear suddenly and completely
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