C.B.S.E – Mathematics +1 English Literature – The Laburnum Top Maximum Marks – 30 Maximum Time - 1 hour 15 minutes * Two Marks Type: Q 1 ‘She launches away‚ towards the infinite’. Explain the given line. Q 2 Why is the image of the engine evoked by the poet? Q 3 What happened when the goldfinch came to the laburnum tree? Q 4 How is the tree transformed during the bird’s visit? Write the line that shows this transformation. Q 5 To what is the movement of the goldfinch compared? What
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Freedom is a right that every human should have. Without freedom‚ the world is a dim and dull place. The poem “Hurt Hawks” by Robinson Jeffers is about injured hawks that face the reality of no longer having freedom and feeling defeated. The short story “Silent Protest” by Shadi Eskandani is about the fight for women’s rights in the Muslim religion and culture. The women are protesting for freedom of choice‚ they want to be able to make their own decisions on what they can do and wear without being
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Love” filled the streets of Marshalltown‚ Saturday morning. The Marching Hawks performed in the annual Oktemberfest Grand Parade‚ playing the tunes of the well-known group‚ the Beatles. The Marching Hawks perform in this parade every year to show off the talents of our band and to receive a rank in the 1A division. This year‚ the band performed part of their marching show‚ the L-S fight song‚ and a drum cadence. The Marching Hawks earned second place in division 1A. “Students rose to the challenge
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“HAWK BAG” What is the selling style of the salesperson? As soon as I reached the stall of Hawk Bags in SM Cubao‚ their sales representative approached and greeted us with a genuine smile on the face. He first asked my need‚ if I was looking for a bag for laptop or for a daily use. Undecided I was still to choose a specific bag‚ the salesman spoke of the quality of the Hawk bags. When he noticed that I was quite more interested with backpacks for women since I moved on that side of the stall
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Compare how ideas about power are conveyed in Hawk Roosting and one other poem? The effects of power seem to be largely psychological in both poems. In Futility the damage down by power makes Owen question everything: mostly it makes him question our existence and the point too our lives; whereas in Hawk Roosting the hawk believes there’s no need for other predator’s existence as nature is “all” his and “no arguments can assert” his right to his power to kill. Owen wonders “was it for this the
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ANSWERS (THEME = POWER AND AMBITION) GRADE G In Shakespeare’s play a man called Macbeth kills the king to get his power. Ted Hughes’s poem ’Hawk Roosting’ is about a hawk who thinks he is powerful. GRADE F In _Macbeth_ Shakespeare writes about Macbeth and Lady Macbeth who have a plan to kill the king and take over. "Hail‚ King thou shalt be." Ted Hughes writes about a hawk and how powerful he is: "My manners are tearing off heads." GRADE E Shakespeare shows that Lady Macbeth wants to be a powerful
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"Hawk Roosting” Commentary The “Hawk Roosting” revolves around one key idea‚ control. Control is evident through various aspects of the poem and is a key factor of the theme. The theme of this piece being‚ although we stem from Creation‚ we are in control of our lives to a great extent due to our divine right of dominance. This idea is symbolized through the literal theme of the hawk’s control over life; “My feet are locked upon the rough bark. It took the whole of Creation to produce my foot‚ my
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“Hawk Roosting” and “Golden Retrievals” In the two poems Ted Hughes’s‚ “Hawk Roosting‚” and Mark Doty’s‚ “Golden Retrievals”‚ the writers use tone and visual imagery to present the animals’ unique point of view in the poems. The tone of “Hawk Roosting” is powerful‚ sinister‚ and arrogant compared to the lighthearted‚ playful tone that is set in “Golden Retrievals.” The hawk’s monologue in “Hawk Roosting” shows how the Hawk sees the world with such power and a sense of ownership as he tells the
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One has PTSD and faces problems every day. The other is in a wheelchair and deals with his disabilities daily. One who has PTSD from the vietnam war. One who lives with being paralized. The father from the short story “Stop the Sun” by Gary Paulsen and Christopher Reeve from the the auto biographical narrative “Still me” that both face and overcome obstacles that develop the theme or central ideas. The father from “Stop the sun” faced and overcame PTSD by talking to his son. “‘This thing that you
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the subject I will be analysing the similarities and differences in the poems ‘Pike’ by Ted Hughes and ‘Cockroach’ by Kevin Halligan. I will focus on what techniques both poets used to achieve the view of nature‚ setting‚ structure‚ subject‚ theme‚ message‚ tone and emotions of both poems. Pike and Cockroach both share a post Darwinian view of nature. The pikes “jaws hooked clamp of fangs”‚ here Hughes is using stressed syllables to imitate to sound of a pikes teeth clamping together. The subject
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