Wind Class 9 Questions and Answers
Textbook Questions
Thinking about the Poem
I.
Question 1.
What are the things the wind does in the first stanza?
प्रथम पद में पवन क्या करती है ?
Answer:
In the first stanza the wind :
- breaks the shutters of the windows.
- scatters the papers.
- throws down books on the shelf.
- tears the pages of the books.
- brings rain.
Question 2.
Have you seen anybody winnow grain at home or in a paddy field? What is the word in your language for winnowing? What do people use for winnowing? (Give the words in your language, if you know them.)
क्या आपने किसी को घर पर या धान के खेत में अनाज उड़ाते देखा ? आपकी भाषा में इसे क्या कहते हैं ? लोग इसके लिए किस चीज़ का प्रयोग करते हैं ?
Answer:
Yes, I have seen people winnowing grain in fields.
लोग इसके लिए छाज का प्रयोग करते हैं और भूसे वाले दानों को ऊपर से नीचे गिराते हैं। हवा से भूसा उड़ जाता है और अनाज वहीं पर गिर जाता है। इस प्रकार भूसा व अनाज अलग हो जाते हैं। हम इसे पछोरना कहते हैं।
Question 3.
What does the poet say the wind god winnows?
कवि के अनुसार पवन देवता क्या पछोरता है ?
Answer:
The poet says that the wind god winnows weak people and weak things. He winnows crumbling houses, crumbling doors, crumbling rafters, crumbling wood, crumbling bodies, crumbling lives, and crumbling hearts.
Question 4.
What should we do to make friends with the wind?
हमें पवन के साथ मित्रता करने के लिए क्या करना चाहिए ?
Answer:
We should make ourselves strong. We should build strong homes and strong doors. We should make ourselves physically and mentally strong and firm. Then the wind will become our friend.
Question 5.
What do the last four lines of the poem mean to you?
कविता की अन्तिम चार पंक्तियों का आप क्या अर्थ समझते हो?
Answer:
The wind makes the strong stronger still. The wind makes a big fire furious. This means that if we are strong and firm the wind will try to help us. But if we are weak it will destroy us.
Question 6.
How does the poet speak to the wind-in anger or with humor? You must also have seen or heard of the wind “crumbling lives”. What is your response to this? Is it like the poet’s?
कवि पवन से कैसे बात करता है-क्रोध से या हँसी में। आपने भी पवन के बारे में देखा या सुना होगा कि यह लोगों को नष्ट कर देती है। आपकी इस बारे में क्या प्रतिक्रिया है ? क्या कवि जैसी ही है ?
Answer:
The elements of nature are very strong. They are both our friends and enemies. When the wind turns into a storm it can blow away trees, houses, ships, and everything else. There are cyclones that cause devastation. But I agree with the poet that we must build stronger buildings. Then wind can do less harm.
II. The poem you have just read is originally in Tamil. Do you know any such poems in your language?
जो कविता आपने पढ़ी है वह मूल रूप से तमिल में है। क्या आपको अपनी भाषा में कोई ऐसी कविता का पता है ?
Answer:
Try yourself. Think of any poem you have read in your language and name it.
Iv. Very Important Examination Questions:
Short Answer Type Questions
I. Answer the following questions in about 30-40 words :
Question 1.
What request does the poet make to the wind and why?
कवि हवा से क्या निवेदन करता है और क्यों?
Or
What plea does the poet make when he addresses the wind?
कवि जब हवा को संबोधित करता है तो वह क्या दलील देता है?
Answer:
- The poet requests the wind to come softly.
- This is because, it breaks the shutters of windows, scatters the papers, throws the books on the shelf, throws down everything and makes fun of the weaklings.
Question 2.
Why is the friendship of the wind helpful?
हवा की मित्रता क्यों उपयोगी है?
Answer:
The wind encourages, us to be strong in mind and body. It makes fun of weaklings but supports and strengthens the strong. For example, the wind makes a big firer furious. That is why it friendship is helpful.
Question 3.
How does the Wind-God do his job of winnowing?
पवन-देवता ने अपना पिछोरने का काम कैसे किया?
Answer:
Winnowing refers to separate the grains from the chaff. The wind signifies difficulties and challenges. Only the physically and mentally strong persons can face difficulties whereas the weak crumbles. The wind like a winnower separates the strong persons from the weak persons.
Question 4.
How does the poet intend to cope with the power of the wind ?
कवि ने हवा की शक्ति का सामना करने का इरादा कैसे किया?
Answer:
The poet intends to cope with the power of the wind by making housics, doors and body strong, mind firm and heart steadfast. We should be physically and mentally strong, we should inclucate certain values like perseverance, hard work, determination and endurance in ourselves.
Question 5.
What does the poet ask the wind not to do?
कवि हवा को क्या ना करने को कहता है?
Answer:
The poet asks the wind not to break the shutters of the windows, scatter the papers, throw the books on the shelf and not to throw everything down. But, he requests it to come softly.
Question 6.
Why according to the poet is the wind extremely clever? Whose fun does it make?
हवा कवि के अनुसार अत्यधिक चतुर क्यों है? वह किसका मजाक बनाती है?
Or
How does the wind behave with weaklings?
हवा दुर्बल व्यक्तियों से किस प्रकार व्यवहार करती है?
Answer:
- According to the poet, the wind is extremely clever because it makes fun of weaklings. It winnows and crushes frail cumbling houses, doors, rafters, wood, bodies and crumbling lives and hearts.
- The wind is very clever at poking fun at weaklings.
Long Answer Type Questions
II. Answer the following questions in about 100-150 words :
Question 1.
The poem ‘Wind’ deals with an important truth of life. What is the advice of the wind ? How ean you benefit by following the advice of the poet ?
‘विंड’ नामक कविता जीवन की एक महत्त्वपूर्ण सच्चाई बताता है। हवा की क्या सलाह है? कवि की सलाह मानकर आप किस प्रकार लाभान्वित हो सकते हैं?
Or
What is the central idea or message of the poem ‘wind’?
‘विंड’ नामक कविता का मौलिक विचार या संदेश क्या है?
Answer:
The world we live in is not safe. It is full of dangers and risks. The most important quality that we need to face these challenges and obstacles, is courage. When the situation is dangerous or difficult, the courageous person pushes through it, and can thrive, or in some cases, survives when others would not. Courageous people die only once in their life while cowards die many times before their actual death. They will not take risk in their lives. But taking risk is important and only courageous people can do it. It is not jumping into dangers, knowing that it will destroy us. Real courage requires wisdom. Courage gives us confidence without which we cannot live our life successfully.
The central idea or message of the poem, ‘wind’ is that one should prepare oneself physically and mentally strong so that he/she could face difficulties and challenges in life.
Question 2.
‘The Wind-God winnows and crushes them all.’ Why is the wind compared to a winnower ?
‘पवन-देवता उन सबको पघोरता और कुचलता है।’ हवा की पघोरने वाले से तुलना क्यों की गई है?
Ans. As the winnower separates the grains from the chaff, the wind separates the strong from the weak. The strong persons are like the grains and the weak persons are like the chaff. The wind signifies difficulties and challenges. Only physically and mentally strong persons can face difficulties and challenges in life.
According to the poem, strength worships strength. The wind makes fun of weaklings. It crushes frail crumbling houses, crumbling doors, rafters, wood and crumbling bodies, lives and hearts. On the other hand, it supports the strong. For example, it makes strong fires roar and flourishes. In this way, the wind god winnows the weak things from the strong.
I. Summary In English
The poet requests the wind to blow softly and not to break the shutters of windows, throw the books from the shelf and scatter them. But the wind does not listen to him. It throws the books, tears their pages and brings rain again. The wind god makes fun of all the weak things – weak houses, bodies, hearts etc. He crushes them. Since the wind won’t listen to our request, the poet suggests to make our houses strong, bodies and hearts firm. If we become strong, the wind will become our friend. The wind crushes the weak but strengthens the strong. So if we want to be friends with the wind, let’s be strong ourselves.
II. Complete Text With Hindi Translation And Extract Based Objective Type Questions
STANZA I
Wind, come softly.
Don’t break the shutters of the windows.
Don’t scatter the papers.
Don’t throw the books on the shelf.
There, look what you did – you threw them down.
You tore the pages of the books.
You tore the pages of the books. You brought rain again.
You’re very clever at poking fun at weaklings. Frail crumbling houses, crumbling doors,
crumbling rafters, Crumbling wood, crumbling bodies, crumbling
Crumbling hearts – the wind god winnows and crushes them all.
Vocabulary : wind (विन्ड) हवा; softly (सॉफ्टली) धीरे से/कोमलता से; shutters (शटर्स) झाँप, लोहे/लकड़ी का फ्रेम (खिड़की बन्द करने व खोलने के लिए); scatter (स्कैटर) बिखेरना; weaklings (वीकलिंग्स) कमज़ोर जानें; frail (फ्रेल) कमज़ोर/जल्दी टूटने वाला; crumbling (क्रम्बलिंग) चरमरा कर गिरना; rafter (राफ्टर) छत का फ्रेम; winnows (विनोज़) अनाज से भूसा अलग करना; crush (क्रश) कुचलना/रौंदना; destruction ( डिसट्रक्शन) विनाश।
अनुवाद : हवा धीरे बहो। खिड़कियों को बन्द करने वाले झाँप (जिससे खिड़की बन्द होती व खुलती है वह लोहे व लकड़ी का फ्रेम) मत तोड़ो। पन्ने मत बिखेरो। शैल्फ से किताबें नीचे मत गिराओ। देखो तुमने क्या किया-तुमने उन (किताबों) को नीचे गिरा दिया। तुमने किताबों के पन्ने फाड़ दिये। तुम फिर से बारिश ले आई। तुम कमज़ोरों की खिल्ली उड़ाने में बहुत होशियार हो। कमज़ोर चरमराते घर, चरमराते दरवाजे, चरमराते छत के फ्रेम, चरमराती लकड़ी, चरमराते शरीर, चरमराती ज़िंदगियाँ, चरमराते दिल-इन सबको हवा का देवता रौंद देता है।
(i) The wind is called clever because ______
(a) it makes fun of weak things
(b) it blows very hard
(c) wind befriends certain people
(d) wind keeps energy
Answer:
(a) it makes fun of weak things
(ii) The only living and crumbling object here is ______.
(a) houses
(b) doors
(c) rafters
(d) heart
Answer:
(d) heart
(iii) The above lines have been composed by :
(a) Robert Frost
(b) Coates Kinney
(c) Subramania Bharti
(d) William Butter Yeats
Answer:
(c) Subramania Bharti
(iv) ‘There, look what you did’ means :
(a) the wind came softly.
(b) the wind did not scatter the books.
(c) the wind threw all the books, tore their pages, and brought the rain again.
(d) the wind stopped the rain.
Answer:
(c) the wind threw all the books, tore their pages, and brought the rain again.
(v) The poet asks the wind :
(a) to blow suddenly.
(b) to blow gently and mildiy.
(c) to blow strongly.
(d) to blow harshly.
Answer:
(b) to blow gently and mildiy.
(vi) What did the wind tear?
(a) The wind tore the pages of the books.
(b) It didn’t tear the dry leaves.
(c) It tore the green leaves.
(d) It tore the light things.
Answer:
(a) The wind tore the pages of the books.
(vii) The wind god winnows :
(a) non-living objects only.
(b) both living beings and non living objects.
(c) all the objects that are weak.
(d) all the objects inside the house.
Answer:
(c) all the objects that are weak.
(viii) Through the above extract the poet conveys that :
(a) the weaklings are always teased and they cannot face the strong.
(b) strong people are the best.
(c) the weaks should develop enough strength to meet the strong challenges of life.
(d) one should be strong so that he could tease weaklings.
Answer:
(c) the weaks should develop enough strength to meet the strong challenges of life.
(ix) The poet is disappointed because the wind does not :
(a) listen to him.
(b) stop blowing violently.
(c) blow softly.
(d) bring rain.
Answer:
(a) listen to him.
(x) The acts of wind are :
(a) destructive.
(b) constructive.
(c) irritating.
(d) creative.
Answer:
(a) destructive.
(xi) Who does the wind make fun of?
(a) The poet
(b) The rain
(c) All the weak and frail
(d) The reader
Answer:
(c) All the weak and frail
(xii) The ‘crumbling hearts’ represent the heart of those persons who are :
(a) weak and disheartened.
(b) old.
(c) dying.
(d) injured.
Answer:
(a) weak and disheartened.
(xiii) What does the poet ask the wind?
Answer:
The poet asks the wind to blow softly and mildly, not in the dangerous and destructive form so that the shutters of his window, books
(xiv) What did the wind do?
Answer:
The wind has broken the shutters of the window, scattered the papers, thrown down and torn the pages of the books and it has also brought the rain.
(xv) What do you understand by ‘There, look what you did”?
Answer:
This implies that the wind threw all the books, tore their pages, and brought the rain again.
(xvi) Which figure of speech is used in the extract?
Answer:
‘Anaphora’
(xvii) Who is ‘you’ here ?
Answer:
‘You’ here refers to ‘the wind’.
(xviii) What does the wind god do to them ?
Answer:
The wind has thrown down and tore the pages of the books and it has also brought the rain.
(xix) Which is the only living object here?
Answer:
The crumbling heart.
(xx) Why does the poet say “the wind god winnows ?”
Answer:
The poet by “the wind god winnows” means that the strong winds destroy all the weak structures and creatures with its force but the strong creatures can resist its wrath.
(xxi) Why is ‘you’ clever?
Answer:
‘You’ is clever because it skilfully makes fun of weaklings.
(xxii) What does the wind break ?
Answer:
The wind breaks decaying houses, rafters, bodies, lives and hearts.
STANZA II
He won’t do what you tell him.
So, come, let’s build strong houses.
Let’s join the doors firmly.
Practise to firm the body.
Make the heart steadfast.
Do this, and the wind will be friends with us.
The wind blows out weak fires.
He makes strong fires roar and flourish.
His friendship is good.
We praise him every day.
Vocabulary : firmly (फर्मली) पक्की तरह से; firm (फर्म) पक्का करना/गठना; steadfast (स्टैडफास्ट) पक्का करना/गठना; blow (ब्लो) (हवा का) चलना; blow out (ब्लो आउट) बुझाना; roar (रोर) गर्जना; flourish (फ्लरिश) फलना-फूलना; praise ( प्रेज़) प्रशंसा करना; causes (कॉजेज) कारण बनती है; tore (टोर) फाड़ा/फाड़े; poking fun (पोकिंग फन) खिल्ली उड़ाना।
अनुवाद : ( तेज़) हवा (का देवता) वह नहीं करेगा जो तुम उससे करने को कहोगे। अतः, आओ अपने घरों को मज़बूत बनायें, आइये हम अपने दरवाज़े पक्की तरह से बंद करें। अपने शरीर को बलिष्ठ और हृदय को दृढ़ बनायें। यह सब करो, तब हवा (का देवता/झोंका) तुम्हारा मित्र बन जायेगा। हवा का देवता कमज़ोर आग को बुझा देता है और तेज़/बड़ी आग को और अधिक गर्जन भरा और फलता-फूलता कर देता है। उसकी दोस्ती अच्छी है। हम उसकी प्रतिदिन प्रशंसा करते हैं।
(i) The poet advises to ______.
(a) build strong houses, joint the doors firmly and to make our body firm/strong
(b) build small houses rather than big houses
(c) bolt the doors firmly before we go to sleep
(d) make our body strong for wrestling
Answer:
(a) build strong houses, joint the doors firmly and to make our body firm/strong
(ii) He won’t do what you tell him means the wind ______.
(a) cannot hear
(b) does not follow our commands
(c) does not like us
(d) wants us to be strong
Answer:
(b) does not follow our commands
(iii) Through the above stanza the poet wishes to convey that :
(a) we should be well prepared to face the wind.
(b) we should buy the objects of good quality.
(c) the doors should be made of iron.
(d) the wind cannot harm us in any way.
Answer:
(a) we should be well prepared to face the wind.
(iv) What shall we do to make wind our friend ?
(a) We should try to be weak.
(b) We should try to be strong.
(c) We should obey it.
(d) We shouldn’t try to do anything.
Answer:
(b) We should try to be strong.
(v) ’Make the heart steadfast’ means :
(a) make the heart weak
(b) make the heart flaccid
(c) make the heart strong
(d) make the heart useful
Answer:
(c) make the heart strong
(vi) The opposite meaning of the word ’enmity’ in the passage is :
(a) friendship
(b) hatred
(c) humanity
(d) brotherhood
Answer:
(a) friendship
(vii) The wind becomes your friends when you are ______.
(a) weak
(b) firm and unchanging
(c) friendly
(d) determined
Answer:
(b) firm and unchanging
(viii) When the wind blows, strong fires ______.
(a) roar
(b) flourish
(c) roar and flourish
(d) subside
Answer:
(c) roar and flourish
(ix) Name of the poet is ______.
(a) Robert Frost
(b) Subramania Bharti
(c) YB. Yeats
(d) Walt Whitman
Answer:
(b) Subramania Bharti
(x) ‘He’ in the first line stands for :
(a) wind
(b) poet
(c) wind god
(d) common man
Answer:
(c) wind god
(xi) The wind symbolizes :
(a) strong fires
(b) desires
(c) difficulties and challenges
(d) none of these
Answer:
(c) difficulties and challenges
(xii) This stanza has been taken from the poem ______ composed by ______.
(a) rhe road not taken by Robert Frost
(b) wind by Subramania Bharti
(c) rain on the roof by Coat’s Kinney
(d) none of these
Answer:
(b) wind by Subramania Bharti
(xiii) The significance of the poet’s advice is:
(a) not allow the wind to destroy anything.
(b) to be prepared to face the challenges of life.
(c) to avoid challenges of life.
(d) to keep the weak away from wind/ challenges.
Answer:
(b) to be prepared to face the challenges of life.
(xiv) ‘firm’ here means :
(a) not wavering.
(b) strong.
(c) immovable.
(d) sticking to.
Answer:
(b) strong.
(xv) We can make wind our friend by :
(a) making ourselves as strong as the wind.
(b) offering gifts to the wind God.
(c) praising the wind God.
(d) welcoming and befriending the wind.
Answer:
(a) making ourselves as strong as the wind.
(xvi) The wind makes weak fires :
(a) weaker.
(b) stronger.
(c) blow out.
(d) roar and flourish.
Answer:
(c) blow out.
(xvii) The advice of the poet is to :
(a) make ourselves physically and mentally strong.
(b) make wind our friend.
(c) worship the wind God.
(d) surrender to wind God.
Answer:
(a) make ourselves physically and mentally strong.
(xviii) Who is ‘He’?
Answer:
‘wind’.