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Karnataka State Syllabus Class 9 English Poem Chapter 5 Justice
Justice Questions and Answers, Summary, Notes
Before you read:
List of things and obligations that cannot be bought for money.
Answer:
Blood, eye, water, justice, truth, love and affection, peace.
I. Check your comprehension:
Question 1.
What is the poet trying to tell us? Read the following and find out the ideas of the poet. Work in groups.
Answer:
Justce is reduced to trade when it is earned for money.
Question 2.
What is the poet’s concern about justice expressed in the line, ‘A distressing gain through loss?
Answer:
Getting justice for money is like earning profit dishonestly to fill the loss. Poet feels that getting justice for money has become a trade.
Question 3.
What kind of a right is justice?
Answer:
Justice is one’s inherent right.
Question 4.
What kind of justice is dead, according to the poet?
Answer:
According to the Poet, justice with no heart for truth and no dash for a right cause, is dead.
Question 5.
How does the poet describe justice?
Answer:
Justice is cool like ice and still like rock. It is not easy to charm justice. Like this, Poet describes justice.
Question 6.
What present status of justice worries the Poet?
Answer:
Nowadays, justice is shackled to greed, bribe and fished out from popular mood and values. It is lost in the thick jungle of lightless night like a rat caught in the sack of death and like a deer caught in a lion’s lair. Justice cannot reach self by itself. This status of justice worries the Poet.
Read and Appreciate:
Question 1.
The Poet compares justice to ‘gold strains,’ ‘ice’ and ‘rock’. Why?
Answer:
Gold strains are bound to earth. It is highly valuable. But man exploits it. In the same way, justice is also valuable. Man exploits it for his selfish end. Ice is cool and rock stands still. In the same way justice has the characters of coolness and stillness. It is very difficult to get justice. Poet wanted to heighten his idea about justice. So poet compares justice to gold strains, ice and rock.
Question 2.
The Poet says,
‘No easy road to charm her soul While hardship makes her no more justice’
Do you find his opinion about justice contrasting? If so why? If no why? Discuss in groups.
Answer:
Yes, we, find the poet’s opinion about justice is contrasting. Poet says that justice is one’s inherent right. At the same time, he says that justice is cool like ice and still hard like a rock. So, it is not easy to get justice. But the poet says that getting justice through hardship is not justice.
Figures of Speech :
Read the following lines
1. Simile: In a simile, a comparison is made between two objects of different kinds which have however at least one point in common.
Eg.
- “Though wrapped in black packs …. like a gold strain bound in the mud..’
- She is cool like ice, and still like rock;’
- like rat, caught in the sack of death, like deer, caught in lion’s lair,..’
2. Personifications
Eg:
(1) She never reaches self by herself. Here ‘she’ is Justice.
Justice Additional Questions and Answers
I. Choose the correct answer.
Question 1.
Human life is based on certain:
(a) Things
(b) Values
(c) Customs
(d) Culture.
Answer:
(b) Values
Question 2.
Values still govern our:
(a) Property
(b) house
(c) Lives
(d) Culture.
Answer:
(d) Culture.
Question 3.
Justice is one such value that answers exploitation:
(a) Life
(b) Free life
(c) Crime life
(d) Happy life.
Answer:
(b) Free life
Question 4.
In the present days, justice has become a ______ for some people:
(a) Commodity of sale
(b) Injustice
(c) Illegal
(d) Property.
Answer:
(a) Commodity of sale
Question 5.
Though there are immoral attacks on justice, it has survived like:
(a) Rock in the mud
(b) Silver in the mud
(c) Gold strains bound in mud
(d) Coal.
Answer:
(c) Gold strains bound in mud
Question 6.
Justice is still like:
(a) Mouse
(b) Water
(c) Rock
(d) Gold.
Answer:
(c) Rock
Question 7.
Justice with no heart for truth; justice with no dash for right cause is:
(a) Justice dead indeed
(b) Justice alive indeed
(c) Injustice
(d) Trade.
Answer:
(a) Justice dead indeed
Question 8.
‘She is cool like ice’ the figure of speech used in this line is:
(a) Simile
(b) Metaphor
(c) Personification
(d) Irony
Answer:
(a) Simile
II. Match the following:
| A | B |
| 1. charm | a. pulled out from |
| 2. shackled | b. resting place |
| 3. sack | c. attract |
| 4. lair | d. chained |
| 5. fished out | e. a large bag |
Answer:
1-(c), 2- (d), 3 – (e), 4 – (b), 5- (a).
III. Answer the following:
Question 1.
Who is the writer of the poem ‘Justice’?
Answer:
Praveen Kumar.
Question 2.
Name the figures of speech used in the following sentences:
- Though wrapped in the black packs like gold strains bound in mud.
- She is cool like ice and still like rock.
- Like rat, caught in the sack of death like deer, caught in lions lair.
- She never reaches self by herself.
- No easy road to charm her soul
Answer:
- Simile
- Simile
- Simile
- Personification
- Personification.
Justice Summary in English
Human life is based on certain values. Values still govern our lives. Justice is one such value that ensures an exploitation free life. Unfortunately, in the present day, Justice has become a commodity on sale for some people.
Poet says that earning justice for money is not justice. Getting justice for money is dishonest means. It is like obtaining profit dishonestly to fill the loss. Justice is everyone’s inherent right.
Though justice is kept in a dark hall of race by wrapping it in black packs like gold strains bound in mud. But it is exploited. Poet compares the justice with gold bound in mud. Gold is taken out from the mud. In the same way justice is getting exchanged for money.
Justice is as cool as ice, and still like rock. It is not easy to get justice. Working hard to get justice makes injustice. Justice is shackled in greed and bribe.
It is fished out from the great values. Poet says that Justice is lost in a jungle of lightless night. He means that we cannot get justice taking the good path. Justice is caught in the sack of death like a rat and it is caught in a lion’s lair like a deer. She is corrupted by the greedy people.
Poet feels that justice has no heart for truth, and it is not racing for right cause. He feels sorry that there is no justice, Justice is dead.
Justice Summary in Kannada
