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PoETRY

MachinE

- Rudyard Kipling
Not to be republished
iRa Read what Encyclopedia Britannica has to say about a
Machine and answer the questions that follow.

A device that amplifies or replaces human or animal effort to
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accomplish a physical task. The first five simple machines are : The lever,
the wedge, the wheel and axle, the pulley, and the screw; all complex
machines are combinations of these devices. The operation of a machine
may involve the transformation of chemical, thermal, electrical or nuclear
energy into mechanical energy, or vice versa.

* Name a few machines that we use. How do they run or work?
* “Man has learnt how to sail on the seas, how to fly in the sky, and
how to reach the moon; but, he has not yet learnt how to live on this
earth” is a famous statement. Do you agree? Have a discussion with
your partner in the class.
* Some words are given in the box. Classify them into words used
in Mechanics and words used in Biology. Note that some may be used
in both.
You may consult a good dictionary to do this.

emu, cog, nut, wedge, bear, mouse, furnace, tool, boar, rhino, file,
ray, turtle, mink

[Rudyard Kipling [1865-1936] is an Indian born
British novelist, short-story writer, and poet. He was
brought up in England, but came back to India and
worked as a journalist. His famous works are :
Barrack – Room Ballads, Kim, Captain Courageous.
His books “Just 50 stories” and “Puck of Pook’s Hill”
are very popular. He was awarded the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1907.
This poem, imagined to be recited by machines,
draws our attention to their giant strength as well as Rudyard Kipling
to their limitations.]

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