3.1. Suburbs
I
celebrate the virtues and vices
of
suburban middle-class people
who
overwhelm the refrigerator
and
position colourful umbrellas
near
the garden that longs for a pool:
for
my middle-class brother
this
principle of supreme luxury:
what
are you and what am I, and we go on deciding
the
real truth in this world.
The
truth of that dream we buy on credit
of
not going to the office on Saturday, at last,
and
the merciless bosses whom the worker
manufacturers
in indivisible granaries
where
executioners were always born
and
grow up and always multiply.
A 1. Factual Understanding (2)
Complete the list of luxurious objects mentioned in the extract
Ans 1) ----------------------- 2) ---------------- 3) ----------------- 4) -------------------------
A2. Poetic Device
(2)
"I celebrate the virtues
and vices."
(Identify the figure of speech in the above line and explain it.)
(Identify the figure of speech in the above line and explain it.)
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A.3. Personal Response (2)
Explain the life of middle class people in the cities.
( Prepare your own answer)
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A.4. Poetic Creativity (2)
"---- and the merciless bosses whom the workers
manufacturers in indivisible granaries
where executioners were always born
and grow up and always multiply.
( Change the WORD ORDER in the third line of the extract to rhyme with first line of the extract )
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Expected Model Answers
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A 1. Factual Understanding (2)
luxurious objects mentioned in the extract
Ans 1. Refrigerator 2. Colourful umbrellas 3. Garden 4) Pool (swimming pool)
A2. Poetic Device (2)
Ans: Figure of Speech- Paradox
The Statement appears to contradict itself and seems unusual and unexpected as we cannot celebrate vices.
A.3. Personal Response
Explain the life of middle class people in the cities.
( Prepare your own answer)
A.4. Poetic Creativity
"---- and the merciless bosses whom the workers
manufacturers in indivisible granaries
where there were always born
and grow up and always multiply.
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