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Samacheer Kalvi 8th English Solutions Chapter 2 - Making Life Worth While - Text Book Back Questions and Answers

Making Life Worthwhile Poem Questions And Answers
Making Life Worthwhile Poem Lines and Explanation

Making Life Worthwhile Poem Mind Map Read and Understand
1. Comprehension questions.
Question 1.
What should we learn from every soul?
Answer:
We should learn the good from every soul.
Question 2.
What qualities will help us to brave the thickening ills of life?
Answer:
A little grace, a kind thought, an unfelt aspiration, a bit of courage and a gleam of faith
are the qualities that help us to brave the thickening ills of life.
Question 3.
Why should we make this life worthwhile?
Answer:
We should make this life worthwhile to have a glimpse of the brighter skies.
Question 4.
What does the poet assure if we make our life worthwhile?
Answer:
Heaven is sure to be our property that may be inherited by us, if we make our life
worthwhile.
Question 5.
Pick out any two lines of repetition from the poem.
Answer:
‘One’ is repeated in the poem like in the lines “one aspiration yet unfelt”; “one bit of
courage”.
2. Fill in the blanks.
1. We should have an ______ in life.
2. A ______ is needed for the darkening sky.
3. One must have a ______ of brighter skies to make the life worthwhile.
Answers:
1. aspiration
2. bit of courage
3. glimpse
3. Figure of speech.
Repetition:
Repetition is a literary device that repeats the same words of phrases a few times to
make an idea clearer and more memorable. It is used to emphasize a feeling or idea,
create rhythm, and bring attention to an idea.
“The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep,
and miles to go before I sleep.” – Robert Frost
Making Life Worthwhile Poem Lesson Additional Questions
I. Poem Comprehension – Additional
1. Some little grace; one kindly thought;
One aspiration yet unfelt;
One bit of courage
For the darkening sky;
Question a.
What qualities are mentioned here?
Answer:
Some Grace, a kind thought, hope and courage.
Question b.
What do you mean by the word ‘grace’?
Answer:
‘Grace’ means elegance or charm.
2. One gleam of faith
To brave the thickening ills of life;
Question a.
How can we brave the thickening ills of life?
Answer:
We can brave them by a gleam of faith.
Question b.
Why does the poet say thickening ills of life?
Answer:
The evils and obstacles in life are increasing.
II Poetic Devices
1. “Get there some good”.
What is the poetic device used here?
Answer:
Alliteration is used here. The words get – good are alliterated.
2. “And heaven a surer heritage”
Pick out the alliterated words.
Answer:
heaven – heritage are alliterated.
3. One aspiration yet unfelt;
One bit of courage
What is the literary device used here?
Answer:
Repetition. The word one’ is repeated in these two lines.
III. Making Life Worthwhile Poem Short Questions and Answers.
Question 1.
What does every soul touch?
Answer:
Every soul touches our heart.
Question 2.
How do we look at the brighter skies?
Answer:
We look at one glimpse at the brighter skies.
Question 3.
What do you mean by ‘heritage’?
Answer:
Heritage means ‘inheritance’. The property inherited from our ancestors.
III. Making Life Worthwhile Poem Paragraph Paragraph Question with Answer.
Question 1.
How can we make our life Worthwhile?
Answer:
We should learn the good from every soul that touches our heart. Some little grace, a kind thought, a hope or an ambition of achieving a desire or wish and a bit of courage is needed to step into the darkening world. We need faith that shines brightly to face the evils and obstacles of life. A quick look at the brighter side of our life will make our life valuable. Only then, heaven would surely be our inherited property.
Summary In English
The poet talks about how to make our life worthwhile. We should learn the good from every soul that touches our heart. It may be the slightest contact with them. But still, we have to get some, good from them. We need a little grace, one kind thought, a hope or an ambition of achieving our desire or wish. We also need a bit of courage to step into  our darkening world. We need a shine of faith to face the evils and obstacles in our life.
A quick look at the brighter side of life will make our life valuable and surely, heaven would be our inherited property.