Class 10 Work and Leisure Exercise 4.2 Solutions | English Curriculum Development Centre
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C) Answer the following questions.
Who is the poem addressed to?
Solution
The poem is addressed to the people worshipping God by chanting and singing prayers and counting beads in the temple.
What does the speaker advise people?
Solution
The speaker advises people to come out of meditations leaving flowers and incense aside and seek God in the tiller and the pathmaker doing their work instead.
Where do people try to find the god?
Solution
People try to find the God in the lonely dark corner of a temple with doors all shut.
Where, according to the speaker, does the god actually reside?
Solution
According to the speaker, the God actually resides where the workers are working in the sun and shower such as where the tiller is tilling the hard ground and where the pathmaker is breaking stones.
How can people have a glimpse of the god?
Solution
People can have a glimpse of God by involving themselves in hard work in sun and in shower with stained clothes covered in dust and sweat.
Why can't the god rescue people?
Solution
The God can't rescue people because he has joyfully taken the bonds of creation upon him and is bound with his creation forever.
What does the speaker ask people to do in the last stanza?
Solution
The speaker asks people to come out of their meditations, leave the flowers and incense aside and toil in sweat to meet God in the last stanza.
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