Samacheer Kalvi 7th English Solutions Term 1 Poem 3 Your Space

Samacheer Kalvi 7th English Solutions Term 1 Poem 3 Your Space

Term 1 Poem 3 Your Space

Tamilnadu Samacheer Kalvi7th English Guide Your Space Text Book Back Questions and Answers

Read and Understand

A. Answer the following questions in a sentence or two.

1. Why should we speak gently?
Answer:
We should speak gently because soft and kind words leave a deep and lasting impression. We can win people’s hearts by love and God too likes it and rewards us for eternity.

2. What do you infer about speaking with others from this poem?
Answer:
From this poem, I infer to speak gently with others.

3. What are the disadvantages of speaking harshly?
Answer:
Speaking harshly to people will deprive us of all the good we do here. It is far better to rule by love than fear. Harsh speakers will have more enemies than friends.

4. Why does the poet tell us to speak gently to young children?
Answer:
Speaking gently with the young children, because they have the ability to tolerate anything.

5. How should you speak with old people?
Answer:
We should use kind, gentle, loving, and caring words with the old people because their days are numbered. Harsh words will make them sad but gentle words will keep them happy and they will die in peace.

B. Read the poem and fill in the blanks with the correct option.

1. It is better far To rule by ………………….. than ……………………
Answer:
love, fear

2. Teach it in accents ………………….. and ……………………
Answer:
soft, mild

3. Let no ………………….. tone be ……………………
Answer:
harsh, heard

4. They may have ………………….. in ……………………
Answer:
toiled, vain

5. The ………………….., the ………………….., which it may bring.
Answer:
good, joy

6. The ………………….. of ………………….. are nearly run.
Answer:
sands, life

C. Pick out the words which rhyme with the given words and write similar rhyming words on your own.

Answer:

D. Take a stanza from the poem. Write it in the blanks and find the rhyme scheme.

Answer:

Lines from the poem	Rhyme scheme (a/b/c/d)
Speak gently! It is better far	a
To rule by love, than fear	b
Speak gently – let not harsh words mar	a
The good we might do here!	b

 Additional Appreciation Questions

1) “Speak gently – let not harsh words mar The good we might do here”
a) What does the poet ask the reader generally?
Answer:
He generally asks the reader to speak gently.

b) What can the harsh words do?
Answer:
The harsh words may spoil the good that we do on earth.

2) “Teach it in accents soft and mild:
It may not long remain ”
a) What does the word “it” refer to?
Answer:
The word ‘it’ refers to the way of speaking gently.

b) What may not long remain?
Answer:
The art of speaking gently may not remain for a long time. We need to teach them continuously

3) “Speak gently to the erring – know,
They may have toiled in vain;
Perchance unkindness made them so; 

oh, win them back again!”
a) Who have toiled in vain?
Answer:
The erring have worked hard vainly

b) What made them become sinful?
Answer:
Because of unkindness, they remained fallible.

c) Write- down the rhyming words.
Answer:
“Know, So”, “Vain – again”.

4) “Speak gently! – It’s a little thing Dropped in the heart’s deep well;
The good, the joy, which it may bring Eternity shall tell”.
a) What is a little thing?
Answer:
Speaking gently is a little thing.

b) What does it bring in our life?
Answer:
It brings the good, the joy in our life.

c) Write down the rhyming scheme.
Answer:
abab

5. Speak gently! – ’tis a little thing
Dropped in the hearts deep well;
The good, the joy, which it may bring,
Eternity shall tell.

Question 1.
What is a‘little thing?
Answer:
Speaking gently is a little thing.

Question 2.
Where should we drop the gentle words?
Answer:
we drop the gentle words deep in the hearts.

Question 3.
What do gentle words in our deep hearts bring?
Answer:
The gentle words bring goodness and joy to our hearts.

Question 4.
Till when will the goodness and joy last?
Answer:
Goodness and joy would last forever till eternity.

6. Speak gently! -Love doth whisper low
The vows that true hearts bind;
And gently Friendship’s accents flow
Affection’s voice is kind.

(a) How does love speak?
Answer:
Love speaks in a low whisper.

(b) What do vows of love do?
Answer:
Vows of love bind true hearts.

(c) What flows gently?
Answer:
Friendship.

(d) How is the voice of affection?
Answer:
Kindness.

Your Space Summary in English

The poet David Bates says that we should speak gently as it is easy to control people by love rather than by fear. The good deeds we do are spoilt by the rough words we speak.

When promises of love are expressed in a low voice, it ties the truly loving hearts. Friendship grows deeper through the kind words that flow. The language of affection is kindness. We must speak gently to gain the love of little children. The childhood period does not extend for a long time, hence we must speak caring, soft and mild words that they may remember always.

The youth and adolescents need gentle words as they already have burdens, worry, and anxieties to undergo. We must help the youth pass their springtime in life in the best way happily and successfully by handling them with care, patience, and gently.

Next, the poet asks us to speak gently to seiner citizens. Our words and actions must not make their tired and worn out hearts more sorrowful. They have almost lived their life-time, so we must help them live the little time left, happily and peacefully.

The poor people must not hear rough and unkind words, says the poet. They already undergo hardships due to lack of money, food, health, oppression, etc.

We must use kind words to the criminals, prisoners, and those who have committed mistakes in their lives to win them back and make them good. They could have become worse due to the unkindness shown towards them.

Finally, the poet speaks about God. When God traveled on a fierce stormy sea, he commanded it to be calm and still and controlled the elements of nature. The same God gave his life on the cross to mend man’s sinful stubborn mind. So we should speak to him gently in prayer.

To conclude, the poet compares our hearts to a deep well. To conquer hearts we must put kind and gentle words into them. Those words would bring joy and goodness that lasts till the world ends.

Your Space Summary in Tamil

கடினமான வார்த்தைகளையும், சப்தமான தொனியும் நாம் பயன்படுத்த வேண்டாம். ஏனெனில், அன்பின் குரல் மென்மையானது. மிருதுவானது. குழந்தைகளிடம், இளைஞரிடம், ஏழைகளிடம் தவறு செய்பவரிடம், மனிதகுல மேன்மைக்காக தியாகம் செய்யும் உழைப்பாளர்களிடம் நாம் எப்போதும் மென்மையாக பேசுவோம்.