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WorksheetsOur Casuarina Tree
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
How does the poet describe the creeper?
scarf
python
giant
casuaria tree
How does 'the giant' withstand the embrace of the creeper?
gallantly
proudly
haughtily
meekly
What does the baboon's offspring do in the morning?
watch the sunrise
rest delightedly
leap about and play
screech and howl
What grows in the shadow of the tree?
casuarina saplings
grass
water lilies
garden plants
What did the dirge sound like in the past?
Like the sea breaking on a shingle-beach
melancholic music of the mountain
1. For whose sake will the tree ‘be ever dear’?
For the kokilas that come to the tree
For the pleasant breeze
For the memory of her dead siblings
For the crimson red flowers that decorate the tree
1. Why does the poet want to ‘consecrate a lay’ in the tree’s honour?
The trees lament is an eerie speech
The tree reminded her of her dead siblings
The wail could be heard in distant lands
1. Where else has the poet heard the lament of the tree?
In distant lands, by many a sheltered bay
on the classic shore Of France or Italy,
in her own loved native clime
What are the figures of speech used in the following lines?
What is that dirge-like murmur that I hear
Like the sea breaking on a shingle-beach?
It is the tree’s lament, an eerie speech,
That haply to the unknown land may reach.
simile
personification
chiasmus
innuendo
Who has immortalized the trees in Borrowdale by describing them in his poems?
Thomas Hood
John Keats
William Wordsworth
Percy Shelley
