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Karnataka State Syllabus Class 9 English Poem Chapter 7 Geography Lesson
Geography Lesson Questions and Answers, Summary, Notes
Warm-up activity:
Why do we have compound walls for our houses:
- To mark the territory of our property.
- To stop trespassers coming in.
- To stop the stray animals from entering the garden.
Imagine if the city corporation passed a law to abolish compound walls, what would happen in your locality? Discuss.
Points:
- less fights
- more unity
- all as one family
- togetherness
Comprehension:
C1. Read the poem silently and answer the following questions:
Question 1.
What did the poet see from the jet?
Answer:
The poet saw how the city had developed haphazardly, in an unplanned manner and without style, as the jet sprang to the sky.
Question 2.
The words haphazard and unplanned are used to describe …………………
a. the scale
b. the sky
c. the jet
d. the cities
Answer:
d. the cities.
Question 3.
From high above the earth, how did the cities appear to the poet?
Answer:
From high above the Earth, the cities appeared unplanned, without any style, developed haphazardly Pear the rivers and valleys.
Question 4.
From a higher altitude, what lesson could the poet learn about the cities?
Answer:
From a higher altitude, the poet could understand that man had the tendency to settle near river banks and near the valleys as he was attracted to both land and water.
Question 5.
According to the poet, what was in greater proportion on earth?
Answer:
According to the poet Earth had more sea (water) than land.
Question 6.
According to the poet, what do men on earth do?
Answer:
According to the poet, men on earth find reasons to hate each other by building barriers and borders across the cities, create enmity and hate and kill each other.
C2. Answer the following questions:
Question 1.
From above, the city looked haphazard and unplanned. Why do you think the city looked so?
Answer:
The city was not planned properly, or the people did not plan it together. Each one built according to one’s taste therefore there was no uniformity in design and style. There was unplanned development all around.
Question 2.
Geographically what is the importance of rivers and valleys? Explain their importance with reference to the second stanza of the poem?
Answer:
The rivers and valleys are highly fertile and are conducive to living. Right from the days of earlier civilizations, people have been settling there because of the fertility. Therefore, when the poet saw the land from a great height, he saw that the development was more and dense near the rivers and valleys rather than in other places.
Question 3.
The last stanza shows the degradation of human nature. Do you agree with this view? Justify your view.
Answer:
It is very true. With the advancement in society, there seems degradation in human behaviour. While there is development in technology and standard of living, man has found causes to hate other men, to build barriers and barricades, to kill others in the name of race, ethnicity, religion, etc. So the development of society has in a way turned the man to a beast.
C3. Ponder over the following questions and express your views in the answers:
Question 1.
The picture of the earth zooms out in the poet’s mind and against that background we sec human nature. Bring out the contrast between Earth and human nature.
Answer:
If the earth stands for cohesion, a man stands for the division. If the earth stands for oneness and unity, a man stands for separatist spirit. The earth selflessly gives everything to the human race without receiving anything in return. Man has constructed unnecessary geographical walls and boundaries in his selfishness. This selfishness has grown at a great speed and has built barriers of great height among people, creating hatred that has resulted in wars.
Question 2.
Imagine planet Earth having only ‘ water and no land. Do you think man would still draw boundaries and wage wars? Discuss it with your friends.
Answer:
In reality, it is difficult to create boundaries in water, therefore it will not be physically possible for him to claim a certain expanse of water as his own. But as these barriers are due to man’s thinking process, he might still wage wars and treat others with hatred and spite.
Geography Lesson Additional Questions and Answers
Question 1.
What did the poet see when the jet spraying to the sky?
Answer:
The poet saw that the city had developed haphazardly, unplanned and lacking style.
Question 2.
What did the poet see when the jet was ten thousand feet high?
Answer:
The poet was able to see clearly that the cities had developed close to the water and in the valley where the lands were most fertile.
Question 3.
How did the Earth look from high above?
Answer:
The Earth was round and it had more water than land.
Question 4.
What was not clear to the poet?
Answer:
It was not clear to the poet why the people belonging to the same Earth had created borders amongst themselves, hated, and killed each other.
Question 5.
What did the men on earth find?
Answer:
The men on earth found causes to hate each other, to build walls across cities, and to kill.
Annotations:
Question 1.
What on the ground had looked haphazard, unplanned, and without style?
Answer:
These lines are taken from the poem ‘Geography Lesson’ written by ‘Zulfikar Ghose’. He says this when he looks down at the city from a height flying in the jet. When the jet sprang up to the sky, the poet saw below, that the city had developed in a haphazard manner without either planning or style.
Question 2.
From that height, it was not clear, why?
Answer:
This line is taken from the poem ‘Geography Lesson’ written by Zulfikar Ghose. While flying thousands of miles above the land, the poet sees the Earth as one mass of land and water. It makes him wonder why these people are creating walls, fighting with each other in the name of race, religion, etc. It was difficult for him to understand this hatredness, from that height.
Geography Lesson Summary in English
The poet describes the view he gets when the jet he is travelling, reaches different heights. Initially, the poet was able to see clearly the development of the city as the jet reached the sky. He was able to see very clearly that the development was haphazard, unplanned and without style. When the jet reached ten thousand feet, the poet was able to see clearly that man had encroached on rivers, valleys etc. in the name of development.
The truth of the fertility of land near the water yas clearly evident by the thickly populated growth. When the jet went further six miles high, the poet could see that Earth was one huge round mass of water and land, and it had more sea than land. Therefore the poet found it very difficult to understand why there was any necessity for men to create borders, build barriers, hate and kill each other.
The poet through this poem wants to explain that all of us belong to this one Earth therefore we are all one. We should stop differentiating ourselves and creating hatred and anger amongst ourselves.
Glossary:
- sprang: leapt, rose quickly
- logic: commonsense.
- inevitable: bound to occur, unavoidable
- haphazard: without any planning or order
- delineated: described clearly