KSEEB Solutions for Class 10 English Poem Chapter 3 I am the Land

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Karnataka State Syllabus Class 10 English Poem Chapter 3 I am the Land

I am the Land Questions and Answers, Summary, Notes

Understand the poem:

Question 1.
Who do you think is the speaker of the poem?
Answer:
The land or mother earth.

Question 2.
“I wait”, in line one suggests the feeling of
a) annoyance
b) patience
c) disgust (Choose the right mood of the speaker)
Answer:
(b) patience.

Question 3.
In line 2 ‘you’ is repeated. Do you think it refers to the same person? Who do you think that is?
Answer:
Yes, it refers to the same person. The reference is to man in general. And hence it can be taken as the reader too.

Question 4.
Bring out the contrast between the reader and the speaker as suggested in lines 4, 5 and 6.
Answer:
If the reader is irritable and shouts, the speaker shows patience; the reader greedily buys the land, the speaker merely waits with the pain of the muddy holes that have been dug up by the buyer or the seller.

Question 5.
‘muddy holes’ refers to
a) virtual holes in the land
b) intention of the speaker
c) commotion created by the reader.
Answer:
(a) virtual holes in the land.

Question 6.
What does the phrase‘car lot eyes stare suggest?
Answer:
The phrase ‘car lot eyes stare’ suggests the perception as if the earth were staring with the lights of the car parked on it.

Question 7.
The poem introduces some types of people and things. Some actions associated with them are given below. Classify them appropriately as suggested in the poem.

Answer:

Question 8.
Pick out the line from the poem that expresses the ‘self-assertion’ of the speaker.
Answer:
You cannot put a fence around the planet earth.

Read and Appreciate:

Question 1.
“I wait,” is repeated five times in the poem. What quality of the speaker is highlighted through this repetition?
Answer:
The repetition of the word ‘wait’ five times in the poem shows that the speaker is the very symbol of patience. The speaker is not rash. The speaker waits patiently for a change for the better. The speaker is optimistic that there will be a change. The speaker has faith in the goodness of people.

Question 2.
The poem has figures of speech. One is given. “A chainlink necklace chokes me” is personification. Pick out one or two or more such figures of speech from the poem.
Answer:
The phrase ‘car lot eyes I stare’ has an implied comparison as it refers to the extraordinary tools of perception as if the earth were staring with the lights of the car parked on it. So the figure of speech is a metaphor.
The repetition of the word ‘wait’ is anaphora. The employment of this word highlights many admirable qualities of the land and contrasts it against selfish human beings.

Question 3.
The poem is not full of rhyming words. On the other hand, it makes us imagine some pictures like soldiers shooting, children dancing. Pick out other images from the poem.
Answer:
‘A chainlink necklace chokes me’, ‘car lot eyes I stare’.

Question 4.
“YOU CANNOT PUT A FENCE
AROUND THE PLANET EARTH”
Is this a tone of weakness or self-assertion? Discuss.
Answer:
Surely it is a tone of self – assertion. In front of the planet earth, the man is nothing. Man has existence on the same earth. Without the earth, man cannot stand or survive on it.

Question 5.
Which line or lines do you enjoy reciting most? Give reasons for your choice.
Answer:
‘Then someone
tickles me, plants life… fruit
grass… trees/children dance/someone sings.’
In the whole poem, these are the only lines of rejoicing. The land expresses its happiness here. The cheerful note introduced in this part of the poem makes it a happy proposition to recite.

I am the Land Additional Questions and Answers

Answer the following questions in a word or a sentence each:

Question 1.
Why and for whom does land wait?
Answer:
The land does not wait for anyone. It just waits. It cannot do anything else but wait.

Question 2.
Who is the speaker referring to like you’ in the poem?
Answer:
‘You’ refers to people in general or human beings.

Question 3.
What do ‘muddy holes and car lot eyes’ refer to?
Answer:
They refer to potholes and puddles.

Question 4.
What does the land do when someone plants life on it?
Answer:
The land supports the growth of plants, grass, flowers and trees.

Question 5.
Why was a chain-link necklace put around the land?
Answer:
People who owned the land wanted to protect their property from trespassers and therefore might have put a chain-link necklace around the land.

Question 6.
What happens to the land when it is tickled?
Answer:
The land comes to life with fruit, grass and trees.

Question 7.
When do the children dance?
Answer:
When the land is tickled and bears fruits, grass and trees.

Question 8.
‘You cannot put a fence around the planet earth’. Who does ‘you’ refer to?
Answer:
The one who exploits the land.

Question 9.
Mention the figure of speech in the line:‘I am the Land. I wait.’
Answer:
Personification. The poet makes the inanimate land animate by making it the speaker.

Answer the following questions in 2-3 sentences each:

Question 1.
Comment on the line, “You say you own me.”
Answer:
There is a note of irony here. Man thinks he owns the land. In fact he is the product of the land. The land should claim its right on him and not the other way round. Yet the selfish man thinks of the earth as his possession and takes the mother earth for granted.

Question 2.
Trace the different moods of the speaker.
Answer:
The speaker is initially optimistic, though melancholic. When the speaker cites positive activities like planting, dancing and singing, the speaker is cheerful. But when man turns destructive, the speaker turns assertive.

Question 3.
What are the activities that go on over the land?
Answer:
Man buys land, digs the land and plants trees, grows fruit on it. Children dance and play on land. Man also fences and makes boundaries over the land.

Question 4.
‘A chainlink necklace chokes me now’. Name the figure of speech used in the line. Give reason.
Answer:
The figure of speech is metaphor. Here, chainlink necklace refers to a fence that people erect around the land to protect it from trespassers. ‘

Question 5.
What quality of the land is highlighted in the poem?
Answer:
As man continues to exploit the land, it watches everything patiently and waits for things to change. The land on and off has hopes for better things as good sensitive man plants and brings life to the land. But the joy does not last. Man chokes the land. But the land is resilient. It continues to wait. It is optimistic that there will be a change. It has faith in the goodness of people.

Question 6.
‘You cannot put a fence around the planet earth’. How do you justify this statement?
Answer:
As man continues to exploit the land, it watches everything patiently. But when people put a fence around their property with a selfish motive, the land becomes self-assertive. It reminds them that the whole earth is their home and they cannot put a fence around the whole planet.

Answer the following questions in 6-8 sentences each:

Question 1.
What is the central idea of the poem ‘I am the Land’?
OR
How does the poet show that the earth is an ocean of patience in the poem, ‘I am the Land’?
Answer:
The poem ‘I Am the Land’ makes a powerful statement against man’s different ways of exploitation of the land. As a builder, as a consumer, as an urbanite and as a warmonger man continuously takes the land as his own and ill-treats it. The land watches everything patiently and waits for things to change. The land on and off has hopes for better things as good sensitive man plants and brings life to the land. When the land thus comes to life with trees, fruit, and grass, it’s rejoicing time for all. Children dance and someone sings. But the joy does not last. Man, in his role as a warmonger, chokes the land. But the land is resilient. It waits even now. But now it is assertive. It tells a man that he cannot fence the planet earth. The land continues to wait. But this time it waits to see if man has taken the cue to change for the better. If a man still exhibits no common sense, it would be his lot to suffer.

Read the following extracts and answer the questions given below them:

Question 1.
“A chain-link necklace chokes me now.”
a) Who has put the chain link necklace?
b) Who does ‘me’ refer to?
c) Why was the chain-link necklace put there?
Answer:
a) The chain link necklace has been put by the people who own the land.
b) Mother Earth.
c) People who owned the land wanted to protect their property from trespassers. Therefore they might have put a chain-link necklace around the land.

Question 2.
“You cannot put a fence around the planet earth.”
a) Who is the ‘you referred to here?
b) Why were they trying to put a fence around the planet?
Answer:
c) What is the mood expressed here?
a) The land refers to people when it says ‘you’.
b) People were trying to put a fence around their own property with a selfish motive. But the land reminds them that the whole earth is their home and they cannot put a fence around the whole planet.
c) The mood is of self-assertion.

Question 3.
“Then someone
tickles me, plants life fruit”.
a) What does ‘tickle mean in the context?
b) How is it tickled?
c) What is the mood of the speaker in the statement?
Answer:
a) Here ‘tickle’ means, ‘to plough the land’.
b) The land is tickled when the people plough the land, plant trees and grow fruits.
c) The mother earth watches patiently when the people plough the land, plant trees and grow fruits. It waits for things to change.

Question 4.
“You come with guns a chainlink necklace chokes me now”.
a) Who comes with guns? Why?
b) Who is choked here?
c) What is the feeling of the speaker?
Answer:
a) The soldiers come with guns fighting for the land.
b) Mother Earth.
c) People fight with guns for the land and choke the land. Mother earth feels suffocated by the actions of men.

Multiple Choice Questions

Question 1.
The poem I am the Land’ is
A) first-person narration
B) second-person narration
C) third-person narration
D) none of the above.
Answer:
A) first person narration

Question 2.
In the line ‘You come with gunman is projected as
A) one who goes against nature as builder
B) one who goes against nature as consumer
C) one who goes against nature as warmonger
D) one who goes against nature as soldier
Answer:
C) one who goes against nature as warmonger

Question 3.
I Wait’ in line one of the poem T am the Land’ suggests the feeling of
A) annoyance
B) patience
C) disgust
D) frustration
Answer:
B) patience

Question 4.
In I am the Land’, the speaker is
A) the poet
B) the person who has parked the car
C) an angry environmentalist
D) the land
Answer:
D) the land

Question 5.
What is it that angers the speaker in the poem T am the Land’?
A) the prospect of being chained and fenced
B) the idea of being cut into smallest pieces
C) people creating muddy holes
D) people tickling the land.
Answer:
A) the prospect of being chained and fenced

Question 6.
“I am the land, I wait”. Here 7 wait’ suggests the feeling of
A) annoyance
B) joy
C) patience
D) disgust.
Answer:
C) patience

Question 7.
“A chainlink necklace chokes me now”. Here ‘chainlink necklace’ refers to
A) a garland
B) a fence
C) trees
D) grass.
Answer:
B) a fence

Question 8.
“You cannot put a fence Around the Planet Earth”. The speaker here is showing a tone of
A) weakness
B) patience
C) excitement
D) self-assertion.
Answer:
D) self-assertion.

Question 9.
The line which expresses self-assertion of the earth in the poem 7 am the Land’ is
A) I am the land, I wait.
B) You come with guns.
C) You cannot put a fence around the planet earth.
D) I bear all the selfish acts of man.
Answer:
C) You cannot put a fence around the planet earth.

Question 10.
“With muddy holes and
car lot eyes I stare ”,
The word stare’ means
A) express anger
B) silently watch what is happening
C) to look at something fixedly for a long time
D) to look at something silently with patience.
Answer:
C) to look at something fixedly for a long time

Question 11.
“Then someone
tickles me, plants life _______ fruit
grass ______ trees/children dance/someone sings.”
It shows how people
A) use the land properly
B) use the land greedily for their comforts
C) do different works on the land
D) take care of the land.
Answer:
B) use the land greedily for their comforts

Question 12.
In the poem ‘I am the Land’, I wait’ is used several times. Here the poet feels that
A) the land has patience
B) the land warns human beings
C) the land feels proud of its resources
D) the land waits to see its future disasters.
Answer:
A) the land has patience

Question 13.
Who cannot put a fence around planet earth?
A) Land
B) Earth
C) Man
D) The poet
Answer:
C) Man

Question 14.
When does the land feel choked as narrated in the poem I am the Land’?
A) When man makes boundaries.
B) When children dance and play on it.
C) When the farmer ploughs it.
D) When people drive vehicles on it.
Answer:
A) When man makes boundaries.

Question 15.
The land feels choked when
A) man plants trees.
B) man builds houses.
C) man makes boundaries.
D) man drills holes in it.
Answer:
C) man makes boundaries.

Question 16.
In the line, ‘You say you own me’, the terms ‘you’ and me’ refer to
A) children and the farmer.
B) man and the land
C) soldier and the land
D) buyer and seller of the land.
Answer:
B) man and the land

I am the Land Summary in English

The poem ‘I Am the Land’ makes a powerful statement against man’s different ways of exploitation of the land. As a builder, as a consumer, as an urbanite and as a warmonger man continuously takes the land as his own and ill-treats it. The land watches everything patiently and waits for things to change. The land on and off has hopes for better things as a good sensitive man plants and brings life to the land. When the land thus comes to life with trees, fruit, and grass, it’s rejoicing time for all. Children dance and someone sings.

But the joy does not last. Man. in his role as warmonger, chokes the land. But the land is resilient. It waits even now. But now it is assertive. It tells man that he cannot fence the planet earth. The land continues to wait. But this time it waits to see if man has taken the cue to change for the better. If man still exhibits no common sense, it would be his lot to suffer. Thus, we see that the poem, though short, has a strong appeal to man.

I am the Land Summary in Kannada

Glossary:

• I am the land: speaker/voice of the poem possess
• own: possess
• stare: look at things fixedly for a long time
• tickles: ploughs (here)
• chokes: suffocates, makes one breathless
• chainlink necklace: fence (here)
• car lot eyes: extraordinary tools of perception as if the earth were staring with the lights of the car parked on it