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10.2.Choose the correct word to complete the given sentences.

a. The poet’s anger with the friend (ended soon / lasted long).

b. The poet’s anger with his enemy (died / grew bigger)
with time.

c. The poet watered the tree of anger with (water/tears).
d. The word ‘apple’ in the poem means a (weapon/fruit)
e. The poet’s foe was killed in (a room/the garden)
f. The anger of the poet ended after (he got an apple/his

foe died).
10.3. State ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false sentences.

a. What does the word ‘tree’ in the poem stand for?
b. How did the poet’s anger with the friend end?

c. Why did the poet’s anger with the foe grow bigger and bigger?
d. What did the poet sun the poison tree with?

e. Why was the poet glad in the morning?

10.4.Project work.
Write your own poem.

Check the pattern in the poem. It has four stanzas, each of

four lines. The first and the second line rhyme with each
other and so do the third and the fourth line. Try to write

a one stanza or two stanzas poem in this pattern.

Example :

I wanted to paint my room white;
To make it look shiny and bright.
I told my mother to do so:
And got her to say yes with a bow.

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