Read the lines given below and answer the questions that follow:

The leaves strain towards the glass

Small twigs stiff with exertion

Long cramped boughs shuffling under the roof Bike newly discharged patients

Half dazed moving

To the clinic doors.

1. Why do the leaves strain towards the glass?

(i) The leaves strain towards the glass to escape their captivity from the house towards the forest.

(ii) The leaves strain towards the glass to break it and run away to their family.

(iii) The leaves strain towards the glass to break it as a revenge.

(iv) The leaves strain towards the glass to escape from the monsters in the house.

2. Which figure of speech has been used in these lines?

(i) The figure of speech used in these lines is hyperbole – like newly discharged patients.

(ii) The figure of speech used in these lines is alliteration – small twigs stiff with exertion.

(iii) The figure of speech used in these lines is oxymoron – small twigs stiff with exertion.

(iv) The figure of speech used in these lines is simile – like newly discharged patients.

3. Who is the poet of this poem?

(i) Walt Whitman is the poet of this poem.

(ii) William Blake is the poet of this poem.

(iii) Adrienne Rich is the poet of this poem.

(iv) Robert Frost is the poet of this poem.

4. Explain the lines with reference to the context:

“Half dazed moving to the clinic doors”.

(i) The poet in these lines want to convey that the branches of the trees looks sick and they are shocked to be inside all the time.

(ii) The poet in these lines convey that the branches of the trees try to move out slowly and look like newly discharged patients from the hospital who are half shocked on coming to the outside world.

(iii) The poet in these lines convey that the branches of the tree looks like new patients who are shocked to come back to inside of the house.

(iv) The poet in these lines want to convey that the branches of the trees try to move out and in the attempt of doing do so break their branches and are hospitalised inside now.

5. Why are small twigs stiff with exertion?

(i) Small twigs are stiff with exertion because they are putting all their pressure on the glass to break it and free themselves.

(ii) Small twigs are stiff with exertion due to the lack of water because they were not being watered on a regular basis.

(iii) Small twigs were stiff with exertion because they work all day and night to prepare their food.

(iv) Small twigs were stiff with exertion because they used all their energy in fighting with the poet to free themselves.