Samacheer Kalvi 6th English Solutions Term 3 Poem Chapter 1 Indian Seasons

Poem Chapter 1 –  Indian Seasons

Poem Overview:

Line Nos.	Poem Lines	Explanation
1-2	Summer comes in a blaze of heat	The summer season starts with intense of heat. It is like a bright flame or fire.
3-4	with sunny smiles and dusty pet	It brings cheerfulness to people. Though it brings smiles on their faces, it makes their feet dusty.
5-6	Then seasons change to muddy muds	After a period of time, the seasons change. Monsoons come in bringing muddy roads everywhere.
7-8	monsoons and mangoes leapfrogs and toads	The Monsoons cause rainfall everywhere and ripe mangoes are seen in abundance. The frogs play in the water and jump high. Toads hop happily around.
9-10	Spring is pretty hut short and sweet	Spring is pretty with freshness and blossoms every where. But it is short and sweet.
11-12	when you van smell the grass from your garden seat	The spring is sweet because its freshness can be smelt from your garden.
13-14	Autumn is English in ml Yellow and brown	Autumn is different in the West. The flowers and leaves of the trees become red, yellow and brown.
15-16	Autumn is hid fan whenever leaves fall down	But in India, during Autumn season, leaves fall down.

B. Which season am I? Read the poem, understand and solve the riddle.

1. I make the feet dusty.
2. Frogs and toads will visit when I am there.
3. I am pretty short and sweet.
4. I make your garden smell sweet.
5. Leaves will wither because of me.

Answers:

1. Summer
2. Rainy
3. Spring
4. Spring
5. Autumn

C. Read the tines and answer the questions given below.

1. Summer comes
in a blaze of heat with
sunny smiles
and dusty feet

a. Dots the poet welcome the summer? How do you know?
Answer:
Yes, the poet welcomes the summer because she says that summer comes with sunny smiles, making people cheerful.

b. Which lines tells you that there is no rain in summer?
Answer:
‘Sunny smiles and dusty feet’ tells us that there is no rain in summer.

2. Spring is pretty
but short and sweet
when you can smell the grass
from your garden seat

a. How does the poet describe the spring season?
Answer:
The poet describes the spring season as pretty, short and sweet.

b. Which line tells you that the garden is fresh?
Answer:
The line ‘when you can smell the grass from your garden seat’ tells us that the garden is fresh.

c. Who does ‘you’ refer to?
Answer:
‘You’ refers to ‘the person who owns the garden’. / sometime answer is “viewers”

3. Autumn is English
in red, yellow and brown
Autumn is Indian
Whenever leaves fell down

a. How Is autumn in India?
Answer:
Whenever the leaves fall down, it is autumn in India.

(In India, no one can distinguish the Autumn season.)

b. Compare the English autumn with the Indian autumn.
Answer:
The leaves are beautiful with red, yellow and brown colours and the poet considers this to be English autumn. Whenever the leaves fall down, it is Indian autumn.

D. Pick out the rhyming words from the poem and write them In the table.

Stanza – 1	Stanza – 2	Stanza – 3	Stanza – 4
heat – feet	roads – toads	sweet – seat	brown – down

E. Find examples of alliteration and write them in the blanks.

1. in ablaze of heat –
with sunny smiles
Answer:
sunny, smiles

2. to muddy roads
monsoons and mangoes
Answer:
monsoons – mangoes

3. Spring Is pretty
but short and sweet
Answer:
short – sweet

F. Work In pairs, find answers for the questions and share In the class.

1. Name the seasons mentioned In the poem?
Answer:
The seasons mentioned in the poem are summer, rainy, spring and autumn.

2. What does the summer bring?
Answer:
The summer brings sunny smiles and dusty feet.

3. Which word refers to ‘rain’?
Answer:
The word ‘Monsoon’ refers to ‘rain’.

4. Why does the poet say the ‘Spring Is pretty’?
Answer:
The spring is pretty because we can smell the freshness of grass from our garden.

5. When Is it autumn in India? Why does the poet say this? Is there an autumn season in India?
Answer:
When the leaves fall down, it is autumn in India. The poet says this because in India, leaves rarely change colours. Only when the trees shed their leaves, we know that it is autumn in India. Yes, there is an autumn season in India during the months of September, October and November.

G. How does the poet describe the Indian seasons? Write in your own words in about 50 words.
Answer:
The poet describes the Indian seasons vividly in a simple form. The sumer season starts with intense heat. It is like a bright flame or fire. It brings cheerfulness to people and makes their feet dusty. Then, the seasons change. Monsoons come in bringing muddy roads, ripe mangoes, leaping frogs and toads everywhere. Spring is pretty but short. It is also sweet because we can smell the freshness of green grass from our garden. The poet compares the autumn season in the West to India. Leaves change their colours into red, yellow and brown in the West, whereas the trees shed their leaves in India.

Indian Seasons Additional Questions

I. Poem Comprehension and Poetic Devices.

1. Then seasons change
to muddy roads
monsoons and mangoes
leapfrogs and toads

a. What Is the season mentioned here?
Answer:
Rainy season is mentioned here.

b. Why are roads muddy?
Answer:
The roads become muddy because of heavy rains.

c. What do you mean by the word ‘leap’?
Answer:
‘Leap’ means ‘jump’.

d. Pick out the alliterated words in third line.
Answer:
‘monsoons and mangoes’ are the alliterated words.

Indian Seasons Poem Summary By Nisha Dyrene

The poet Nisha Dyrene in this poem ‘Indian seasons’ describes the four seasons prevalent in India. The poem begins with the summer season starting with intense heat. It comes like a bright flame or fire. It brings cheerfulness to people and makes their feet dusty. Then the seasons change, after a certain period of time. The roads become muddy at the onset of monsoons, which is a rainy season. We can see ripe mangoes everywhere. The frogs play in the water and jump high, where as the toads hop happily.

Next comes the spring season which is pretty, but its duration is short. It is also sweet because you can smell fresh grass from your garden. The poet compares autumn in the West to autumn in India. She says when the leaves are red, yellow and brown, then it signifies autumn in the West. But when the leaves shed, it is autumn in India.