KSEEB 8th English Coromandel Fishers Lesson Poem Summary Questions and Answers

Textbook Questions and Answers

l. Answer the following questions:

Question 1.
What sort of sounds can one hear early in the morning?
Answer:
The calling sound of the leader of the fishermen like “Rise, brothers, rise” can be heard early in the morning. Singing of sea gulls and sound of the waves can also be heard early in the morning.

Question 2.
How is the wind described in line two?
Answer:
The wind is personified in line two. It lies asleep in the arms of the dawn, like a child that has cried all night.

Question 3.
Why are the nets to be gathered?
Answer:
Nets are to be gathered to catch fish.

Question 4.
What do you think is the wealth to the fishermen?
Answer:
Fish found in the sea is the wealth to the fishermen.

8th English Coromandel Fishers Poem Notes Question Answer Summary

II. Read and discuss your responses with your partner. Then write.

Question 1.
What do you understand from the first line of the poem. “The wakening skies pray to the morning light”?
Answer:
The leader of the fishermen gives a call to his comrades that it is dawning, so they have to rise and pray to the sunlight.

Question 2.
The poet says, ‘Let us set our catamarans free.’ What does it mean?
Answer:
“Let us set our catamarans free” means that fishermen should untie their catamarans to set out to sea to catch fish as it is day break. Fishermen usually tie their catamarans in the evenings when they return and untie them in the mornings when they start to set Put for fishing.

Question 3.
What happens if the fishermen are late in starting their work?
Answer:
The fishermen had to strive hard to sail and cannot catch fish more, if they are late in starting their work.

Question 4.
Why does the poet say :
[a] the sea is our mother
[b] the cloud is our brother,
[c] the waves are our comrades all?
Answer:
a. A mother brings up her children by nurturing them with love and affection. Children depend on her. In the same way, fishermen depend on sea for their livelihood. Sea feeds them by providing fish. So poet says that sea is their mother.

b. Generally, brother helps directly or indirectly. In the same way, clouds help fisherman by providing shades while they sail. Clouds bring rain which helps for an abundance of fish in coastal areas. Hence poet says that cloud is their brother.

c. Generally, comrades work together and help each other for their mutual survival. Waves help the fishermen, to sail for catching fish. So poet says that waves are their comrades.

8th English Coromandel Fishers Poem Notes Question Answer Summary

III. Answer the following in a paragraph :

Question 1.
The poet describes many things as sweet. What are they? Among them, what is considered to be the sweetest?
Answer:
The poet describes many things as sweet. They are the shade of the coconut grove, scent of the mango grove, shining sand, sound of the waves and the voices of the loved ones on full moon nights. But, when compared to these, the kiss of the spray and dance of the wild foam’s glee is considered to be more sweet.

IV. Name the figure of speech used in the following sentences.

Question 1.
The wakening skies pray to the morning light.
Answer:
Personification.

Question 2.
The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn like a child.
Answer:
Simile.

Question 3.
The sea is our mother.
Answer:
Metaphor.

Question 4.
The cloud is our brother.
Answer:
Metaphor.

Question 5.
The waves are our comrades all.
Answer:
Metaphor.

8th English Coromandel Fishers Poem Notes Question Answer Summary

V.List out the rhyming words in the poem, and read them out to the class,
e. g., light, might, free, see.
Answer:

light night
free sea
call all
drives lives
grove love
glee sea

Additional reading

Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions below. Share your responses with others.

The Driver

I put on my aqua-lung and plunge
Exploring, like a ship with a glass keel,
The secrets of the deep. Along my lazy road
On and on I steal –
Over waving bushes which at a touch explode                                      5

Into shrimps, then closing, rock to the tune of tide;
Over crabs that vanish in puffs of sand.
Look, a string of pearls bubbling at my side
Breaks in my hand –
Those pearls were my breath! … Does that hollow hide                        10

Some old Armada wreck in seaweed furled,
Crusted with barnacles, her cannon rusted,
The great San Philip? What bullion in her hold?
Pieces of eight, silver crowns, and bars of solid gold?
I shall never know. Too soon the clasping cold                                    15

Fastens on flesh and limb
And pulls me to the surface. Shivering, back I swim
To the beach, the noisy crowds, the ordinary world.                            – Ian Serraillier.

Textbook Questions and Answers

Question 1.
Who is the speaker in the Poem?
Answer:
I an Serraillier the poet, who was the diver.

Question 2.
‘A touch explode’ [line 5] What causes the explosion?
Answer:
His swimming along, disturbing the shrimps which were moving along in waves.

Question 3.
The speaker says of ‘those pearls’. What really are these pearls?
Answer:
His breath coming out in air bubbles.

8th English Coromandel Fishers Poem Notes Question Answer Summary

Question 4.
Why does the diver wish to come back to the surface?
Answer:
The biting cold of the ocean water numbs him and he feels that the cold water was pulling him up. He was shivering and to get back to the warmth of the surface, he wishes to come back.

Suggested Reading:

Additional Questions and Answers

I. Choose the best answer :

Question 1.
‘Rise, brothers rise, the wakening skies pray to the morning light’ It is a call given to fisherman by :
(a) their mother
(b) poet
(c) brother
(d) their leader
Answer:
(d) their leader

Question 2.
The sleeping wind is compared to :
(a) sea
(b) mother
(c) child
(d) seagull.
Answer:
(c) child

Question 3.
The wealth to the fishermen is :
(a) sea
(b) catamaran
(c) nets
(d) fish
Answer:
(d) fish

Question 4.
The leader of the fisherman gives a call to hasten away in the track of:
(a) the fish
(b) sun
(c) the sea gull’s call
(d) waves.
Answer:
(c) the sea gull’s call

Question 5.
The comrades of the fishermen are :
(a) fish
(b) clouds
(c) waves
(d) catamarans
Answer:
(c) waves

8th English Coromandel Fishers Poem Notes Question Answer Summary

Question 6.
The brother of fishermen is :
(a) Cloud
(b) Sun
(c) Catamaran
(d) wave.
Answer:
(a) Cloud

Question 7.
The mother of the fishermen is :
(a) wave
(b) sea
(c) seagull
(d) catamaran.
Answer:
(b) sea

Question 8.
The hand of the sea God is :
(a) catamaran
(b) wave
(c) sun
(d) sea gull
Answer:
(c) sun

Question 9.
Sea God holds the storm by the :
(a) hand
(b) hair
(c) mouth
(d) nose.
Answer:
(b) hair

Question 10.
Poet considers to be the sweetest one :
(a) shade of coconut grove
(b) scent of the mango grove
(c) sound of waves in full moon night.
(d) the kiss of the spray and the dance of the wild foam’s glee.
Answer:
(d) the kiss of the spray and the dance of the wild foam’s glee.

8th English Coromandel Fishers Poem Notes Question Answer Summary

Coromandel Fishers Peem Summary in English

In this poem, Coromandel Fishers, Sarojini Naidu describes the life of the fishermen. The leader of the fishermen is giving a call to his comrades to start their work early in the morning.

The leader of the fishermen calls his comrades to rise and pray to God. The wind is very calm, and is compared to a sleeping child that has cried all night. He asks them to take out their nets, and untie the catamarans and set out to catch fish. They call themselves as the sons of the sea.

He asks them to hurry and follow the track of the sea gull’s call, otherwise they would not get any fish. He says that the sea is their mother, cloud is their brother and the waves are their comrades. They are tossed by the sun. They have to return by sunset. Sea God controls all with his hands. Sun is the hand of Sea God. He holds the storms by their hair. The life of fishermen is controlled and protected by the sea God. God hides the lives of fishermen in his breast.

Shade of coconut grove and the scent of the mango grove are very sweet Shiny sands at full moon with the voices of the loved ones floating in, are also sweet. But, the kiss of the spray and dance of the wild foam’s glee is more sweeter. Thus describing the beauty of the sea, the leader of the fishermen urges his comrades to row onwards to the edge of the verge.

8th English Coromandel Fishers Poem Notes Question Answer Summary

Coromandel Fishers Peem Summary in Kannada

8th English Coromandel Fishers Poem Notes Question Answer Summary 1
8th English Coromandel Fishers Poem Notes Question Answer Summary 2
8th English Coromandel Fishers Poem Notes Question Answer Summary 3

8th English Coromandel Fishers Poem Notes Question Answer Summary

Coromandel Fishers Peem Word in English

  • catamaran = a boat with two parallel hulls like two boats joined together
  • leaping wealth = wealth found in the sea(fish)
  • seagull = abride.
  • hasten = hurry
  • glade = grove
  • kiss of the spray = water that comes out of the waves and sprinkle.
  • low sky mates = the horizon where the sea and the sky appear with the sea.
  • verge = end, here the horizon
  • dawn = day break
  • shore = land bordering the sea
  • comrades = trusted companion who share one’s activities

 8th Standard English Notes

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *