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2.2. Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false sentences.
a. The narrator in the poem is speaking to a flower.
b. Flowers shine like the sun when they are full of rust.
c. Like flowers, we have a certain period in life.
d. Suffering and death are obvious to all.
e. Beauty has eternity.
2.3. Answer the following questions.
a. Who is a bud-of-girl?
b. How are the skirts of the flower?
c. When is the flower as shiny as the sun?
d. What does the poet ask the flower to sit and
contemplate?
e. Do the petals fall with a purpose?
3 Speaking Time
3.1. Practice the following conversations with your friend.
Madhu : Did you see that boy with
tattered clothes?
Mishika : That scrawny one?
A
Madhu : Yes, he lost his parents in
an accident.
Mishika : That’s a pity!
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