KSEEB Solutions for Class 9 English Poem Chapter 8 It Never Comes Again

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Karnataka State Syllabus Class 9 English Poem Chapter 8 It Never Comes Again

It Never Comes Again Questions and Answers, Summary, Notes

Before you read:

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

Four friends-Raju, Akbar, John and Mohan-are looking sad. Each one of them has lost something. Raju lost his cricket bat which he was very fond of. Akbar had a very good storybook and he lost it when by mistake, it fell into a pond. John lost his collection of rare stamps which he had collected over a few years. Mohan lost his mother, who died of a massive heart attack.

Question 1.
Whose loss, do you think, is the greatest?
Answer:
Death of Mohan’s mother is the greatest loss.

Question 2.
Why do you think the loss of other things is not that important?
Answer:
Raju lost his Cricket bat. Akbar lost his storybook. John lost his collection of rare stamps. All these things can be regained. Death of mother cannot be regained. Loss of other things are not that important.

Question 3.
Which of the losses can be compensated and which cannot be?
Answer:
Cricket bat, storybook, collection of rare stamps can be compensated, but a mother cannot be compensated.

Understand the poem:

The poem has a wonderful message. Read it again and discuss your views on the following questions with your partners.

Question 1.
What happens when youth departs?
Answer:
When youth departs, much of one’s strength is gone and it never comes again.

Question 2.
How does a person feel when he is youthful?
Answer:
He plunges in dreams and works wonders.

Question 3.
The poet says, “We sigh in vain.” Why?
Answer:
When we lose the phase of youth, we can’t regain it. So, we sigh for losing it.

Question 4.
Where does a person look for youth, after it is gone?
Answer:
A person looks for youth everywhere on the earth and in the air too, after it is gone.

Question 5.
Why does the poet compare losses and gains with youth?
Answer:
Because it is a period in which we stumble or do correct things. Loss and gain is a result of our youth.

Question 6.
What is the message of the poem?
Answer:
Youth is the sweetest phase of life. If fills a person with dreams. We should make the best use of our youth because when it is gone, much of our strength is gone. We cannot gain it again.

Read and Appreciate:

(A) Read the following lines that appear in the second stanza of the poem. “Still we feel that something sweet Followed youth, with flying feet, And will never come again The poet describes the youth as ‘something sweet’. Do you agree with him? Why? Discuss in groups.
Answer:
Yes, I agree with the Poet. Though we are past our youthful days, we can still feel that those days were sweetest and enthusiastic.

Question 2.
The poet says, “There are gains for all our losses’. Do you agree with this? Give reasons.
Answer:
No, I don’t agree with.this. We can regain loss of some of the materialistic things. But we cannot regain all. Death and youth cannot be compensated.

Question 3.
Which line/s in the poem do you like the most? Why? Tell your friends.
Answer:
Still, we feel that something sweet followed youth with flying feet is the line which we like because it adds to the reality of life.

Question 4.
Can you think of some proverbs/ quotations related to the theme of the poem?
Answer:
e.g. Time and Tide wait for none.

Time is money – Benjamin Franklin An ounce of gold will not buy an inch of time – Chinese proverb

(B) Figures of Speech :

I. Metaphor: Metaphor is a figure of speech in which two different objects having at least one thing in common are compared. But the comparison is indirect or implied.
Ex.

1. But when youth, the dream, departs.
2. Tippu Sultan was the tiger of Mysuru.
3. Life is a dream.
4. The camel is the ship of the desert.
5. Revenge is a kind of wild Justice.
6. God is the old repair man.

II. Personification: Personification is a figure of speech of in which a nonliving object or an obstract notion is treated as having life.
Ex :

1. It takes something from our heart and it never comes again.
2. Under manhood’s sterner reign.
3. Follow youth, with flying feet and will never come again.
4. We behold it everywhere on the earth, and in the air, but it never comes again.
5. Laughter holding both her sides.
6. Death lays his icy hand on kings.
7. Spring is the daughter of heaven and earth.

C. Rhyming words:

• pain – reign
• departs – hearts
• pain – again
• regain – again
• vain – again

Add a few rhyming words to the following.

1. Sweet – heat, beat, meat, feat
2. Air- where, fare, mare, hare
3. Heart – part, short, cart, mart
4. Vanish – finish, distinguish, cherish, banish

It Never Comes Again Additional Questions and Answers

I. Choose the correct answer.

Question 1.
The best period of human life is:
(a) Childhood
(b) youth
(c) Middle age
(d) old age.
Answer:
(b) youth

Question 2.
Youth fills a person with:
(a) Energy
(b) dreams
(c) Goals
(d) strength.
Answer:
(b) dreams

Question 3.
We have the balms for:
(a) all our difficulties
(b) all our pains
(c) all our happiness
(d) work.
Answer:
(b) all our pains

Question 4.
The word that does not rhyme with ‘pain’:
(a) reign
(b) main
(c) vain
(d) fine.
Answer:
(d) fine.

Question 5.
“But when a youth, the dream, departs” The figure of speech used in this line is :
(a) Simile
(b) Metaphor
(c) Personification
(d) Alliteration.
Answer:
(b) Metaphor

II. Answer the following:

Question 1.
Who is the writer of the poem ‘It never comes again’?
Answer:
Richard Henry Stoddard.

2. Name the figures of speech used in the following lines:

Question a.
Tippu Sultan was the tiger of Mysore.
Answer:
Metaphor.

Question b.
Camel is the ship of the desert.
Answer:
Metaphor

Question c.
Youth fills persons with dreams.
Answer:
Personification.

III. Match the following:

A	B
1. sterner	a. without success
2. reign	b. disappear
3. vanish	c. period of rule
4. in vain	d. stronger.

Answer:
1 – (d), 2 – (c), 3 – (b), 4 – (a).

It Never Comes Again Summary in English

Youth is the best period of human life. It is the sweetest phase of life. It fills a person with dreams One should make the best use of one’s youth, because, when it is gone, much of one’s strength is gone.

We can gain whatever we lost. We have balms for all our pains. But when our youth departs, we cannot regain it. We feel stronger and better during our youthful days. We have sweet dreams during the youth.. If it is gone, it cannot be regained.

It is a beautiful and sweetest phase of life. After these days are past, we sigh for it, but in vain. Because we cannot get it again. We can see those beautiful days everywhere on the earth and in the air. But we cannot get the youth again in our life.

It Never Comes Again Summary in Kannada