8th English Machine Poem Notes Question Answer Summary

KSEEB 8th English Machine Poem Notes Summary Questions and Answers

Textbook Questions and Answers

l. Answer the following questions and share your responses with your partner.

Question 1.
Look at the first stanza. See how a machine made of a metal goes through a process in the making. Fill in the empty boxes with the appropriate steps.
8th English Machine Poem Notes Question Answer Summary 1
Answer:

Question 2.
What do simple machines need, to start working?
Answer:
Simply machines need some water, coal, oil or power to start.

Question 3.
Name atleast five machines or mechanical devices, and write how they are useful to man.
e. g. an iron box – for ironing clothes.
Answer:

Pump set: to lift the water
Generator: for producing electricity / light
Train: for travel and transport
Crane: for pulling or lifting things or goods etc.
Gun: Shooting
Scooter, bike: for travelling.

Question 4.
What can a machine not do? [stanza 4]
Answer:
Machines can not comprehend the situation and work. They cannot love, show pity or forgiveness.

Question 5.
What is the risk, if the machine is mishandled? [stanza 4]
Answer:
There is a danger and death to humans if they mishandle the machine.

Read and write:

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

Question 1.
How are machines and human beings different? Study the last stanza and write.
Answer:
Man can work on his own. He has the capacity to comprehend. He has feelings. He can love, show pity or mercy. But machines cannot work of their own. They work when they are operated. They work on guided principles. They cannot ’ comprehend the situation. They can neither love nor pity nor forgive. Either machines or man can misunderstand themselves of their strength. It is temporary. Man is controlled by God, the creator. Machines are controlled by man, its creator.

Question 2.
Do you observe any rhyme scheme in each stanza? If you do, write the words that rhyme together.
eg. ask-task, play-day [second stanza]
Answer:
Ask – task, play – day, (Second stanza), mine-design, pit-tit (First stanza), Drive – dive, light – write. (Third stanza), Live – forgive, lie – die (Fourth stanza) again – brain – (fifth stanza).

Question 3.
List all the words that suggest motion,
eg. pull, jump
Answer:
Pull, jump, haul, push, lift, drive, print, plough, weave, run, swim, fly, dive.

Question 4.
Note how the words like ‘and’ are used in the poem. Also, identify other words t and phrases that are repeated. What is the effect of such repetition?
Answer:
We were, we can, to and nor are used repeatedly. The idea of the poem is stressed and heightened by these repetition of words and phrases.

Additional Questions with Answers

I. Choose the correct answer:

Question 1.
Mineral are melted in
a. ore-bed
b. furnace
c. water
d.oil
Answer:
b. furnace

Question 2.
Some water, coal and oil are needed for the machines to:
a. wash them
b. to keep them in good condition
c. to start them working
d. to transport the machines
Answer:
c. to start them working

Question 3.
Machines are not able to:
a. pull
b. plough
c. comprehend
d. read
Answer:
c. comprehend

Question 4.
There may be danger and death of the man, if man:
a. handling the machines carefully.
b. make a slip in handling them.
c. maintain them properly.
d. not supply water, coal, oil.
Answer:
b. make a slip in handling them.

Question 5.
Machines have power, weight, and big size but they are nothing more than the:
a. man’s brain
b. Elephant
c. power of coal
d. force of water.
Answer:
a. man’s brain

Question 6.
The writer of the poem ‘Machines’ is.
a. SarojiniNaidu
b. Rudyard Kipling
c. Rabindranath Tagore
d. James Kirkup
Answer:
b. Rudyard Kipling

Question 7.
The word that does not rhyme with ‘play’ is
a. day
b. say
c. pay
d. high
Answer:
d. high

II. Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow.

Question 1.
“we were melted in the furnace and the pit”.
a. Who does ‘we’ refer?
Answer:
We refers to machines.

b. Where were they melted?
Answer:
The were melted in the furnace and in the pit.

c. Why were they melted?
Answer:
They were melted to make metal and then to make machines.

Question 2.
“Some water, coal and oil all we ask”,
a. Who does “we” refer here?
Answer:
We refers to machines.

b. Who do they ask?
Answer:
They ask the humans.

c. Why do they need water, coal, oil?
Answer:
They needed water, coal, and oil to start work.

Question 3.
But remember, please, the law by which we live. We are not built to comprehend a lie
a. Who does ‘we’ refer?
Answer:
‘we’ refers to machines.

b. What they cannot do?
Answer:
They cannot comprehend a lie.

c. Who is it said to? why?
Answer:
It is a warning to man. Because if he make a slip in handling them, there may be death of the man.

Question 4.
Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from our eyes.
a. Who does ‘our’ refer to?
Answer:
‘our’ refers to machines.

b. What does “heavens” refer here.
Answer:
Heavens refers to sky, but here it could also means supreme power, God.

c. What happens to their smoke?
Answer:
Smoke would vanish.

Question 5.
“we are nothing more than children your brain”.
a. Who does ‘children’ refer?
Answer:
Machines are referred to as children.

b. Who does ‘your’ refer?
Answer:
‘Your’ refers to man (humans).

c. What is not more than man’s mind?
Answer:
Machine’s power, weight and size are not more than the man’s mind.

III. Answer the following:

Question 1.
Why minerals are taken from the ore- bed?
Answer:
Minerals are taken from the ore-bed to melt them in the furnace, to make metal and ultimately to make machines.

Question 2.
Why were the minerals melted, casted and hammered?
Answer:
Mineral were melted, casted and hammered to make machines.

Question 3.
What do machines need to work?
Answer:
Machines need some water, coal, and oil to start work.

Question 4.
What works can machines do?
Answer:
Machines can do the work of pulling, hauling, pushing, lifting, driving, printing, ploughing, weaving, heating, lighting, running jumping, flying, swimming, diving, seeing, hearing, counting, reading and writing.

Question 5.
What is the comparison made in the last stanza?
Answer:
We misunderstand the strength of machines and man. Machines’ smoke may hide the sky. It means that machines may overshadow the strength of man. But it is temporary because man is the creator of machines and he controls them. In the same way, man can not overshadow God. Because god is the creator of man and controls him.

Machine Poem Summary in English

In this poem, machines are imagined to have recited. They draw our attention to their giant strength as well as to their limitations.

Minerals are mined from ore-beds and melted in the furnaces. They were moulded, shaped and hammered into designs. Then, they were filed, cut and shaped, tooled and gauged to fit and made into machines.

Machines require some water, coal and oil to run. If we set them to their work, they serve man for twenty four hours of a day.

Machines can do all kinds of work like pulling, pushing, lifting, driving, printing, ploughing, weaving, heating, lighting. They can run, jump, swim, fly, and dive. They can also see, hear, count, read and write.
Machines run or work on guided principles. They cannot understand like humans. They cannot feel like humans. They cannot feel love, pity, and forgiveness. If we make a mistake or error, that may lead to the death of humans.

Man’s achievements and task are countable and unimaginable. But, the creator, God controls man. In the same way, machines seems to be more powerful than man. They seem to overshadow man just like clouds that hide the sky, but, later they vanish and stars will appear. In the same way, overshadowing of machines is temporary. Because man controls them. For all their power, weight and size become nothing before the man’s intelligence. Machine say that they are the children of man’s mind.

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