Samacheer Kalvi 8th English Solutions Poem 6-Lessons in Life

Samacheer Kalvi 8th English Solutions Poem 6 Lessons in Life

Poem 6 Lessons in Life

Tamilnadu Samacheer Kalvi 8th English Guide Lessons in Life Textual Questions and Answers

A. Comprehension Questions:

1. What is planting a flower is compared to?
Answer:
Planting a flower is compared to the blossoming of a friendship.

2. What does the tiniest creature need?
Answer:
The tiniest creature needs room.

3. What do the smallest gifts deserve?
Answer:
Even the smallest gifts deserve a warm thank you.

4. What will happen if you fail to give importance to others?
Answer:
Everything is really important on earth. If we fail to give importance to others, they will forget us. It will make us feel bad in the future.

5. What do you learn from your lessons in life?
Answer:
I express my friendship with others by respecting them.

6. Pick and write the rhyming words from the third stanza.
Answer:
Sad – bad.

7. “Having a friend is like planting a flower.” Explain.
What is the figure of speech used in the line?
Answer:
The figure of speech used in this line is “simile”.

Answer the following:

Figures of speech.

1. Write a sentence using ‘as fast as the wind’.
Answer:
He always runs “as fast as the wind”

2. Write a simile using the word ‘like’.
Answer:
He fought ‘like’ a lion in the battle.

3. Create a simile using the word ‘as’.
Answer:
Her hair is ‘as black as coal’.

4. What does ‘smart as a fox’ mean?
Answer:
It means that ‘looking as foolish outwardly but really very clever’.

b. Metaphor:

1. Which of the given options is a Metaphor?
a) Life is like a chocolate box.
b) Raj is like his twin brother
c) His words are pearls of wisdom.
d) The bus is slow as a snail
Answer:
c) His words are pearls of wisdom

2. What does “The world is a stage” mean?
Answer:
The world is a stage is a Metaphor.

3. Identify the metaphor in the sentence:
Answer:
Her hair is always a rat’s nest in the morning, rat’s nest – is the metaphor.

4. Write a sentence on your own that includes a Metaphor:
Answer:
My mother is the queen of my family.

He was a lion in the battle.

Additional Appreciation Questions  and Answers

Read the passage and answer the following questions:

1. Let’s be aware as we walk on this planet Even the tiniest creature needs room.
a) What does ‘this planet’ refer to?
Answer:
‘This planet’ refers to our earth.

b) Who is the speaker?
Answer:
The poet is the speaker.

2. Nothing you’re given will ever come free Even the smallest of gifs deserves “thankyou ”
a) Is anything given free to you?
Answer:
No, nothing is given free to me.

b) Which one deserves ‘thank you’?
Answer:
Even the smallest gifts deserve thank you.

3. Let’s be aware as we walk on this planet
Even the tiniest creature needs room.
(a) What should we aware of?
Answer:
We should be aware that even the tiniest creature needs room.

(b) What do you mean by the term ‘as we walk on this planet’?
Answer:
It means that as long ‘as we live in this world’.

4. Lessons in life aren’t always so simple Nothing you’re given will ever come free
(a) Are ‘lessons in life’ simple?
Answer:
No, lessons in life are not so simple.

(b) What does the second line mean?
Answer:
It means that you are not going to get anything free of cost.

5. Even the smallest of gifts deserves “thank you”.
What should you say, even when receiving a small gift?
Answer:
We should say ‘thank you’.

6. Know that you matter and you make a difference
(a) What does the above line tell us?
Answer:
The above line tells us that every human being is unique and important

II. Poetic Devices.

Question 1.
Having a friend is like planting a flower
(a) What is the poetic device used here?
Answer:
Simile is used here.

Question 2.
Lessons in life aren’t always so simple
(a) Pick out the alliterated words.
Answer:
Lessons – life; so – simple are the alliterated words.

Question 3.
Having a friend is like planting a flower
Show love and kindness it one day will bloom
Let’s be aware as we walk on this planet
Even the tiniest creature needs room.
(a) Mention the rhyme scheme in this stanza.
Answer:
‘abcb’ is the rhyme scheme in this stanza.

Lessons in Life Summary in English

In the poem Lessons in life the poet Daniel Ho and Bridgette Bryant bring out the importance of friendship in life and they add value to it by comparing it to the episode of planting flowers.

Just like making a flower bloom, friendship also blossoms only when there is constant care, love, and kindness showered on them for a long period of time. Lessons that are taught by life come out of facing great difficulty. Similarly, every small gift has a great deal of effort behind it. One should respect it and never forget to say ‘thank you’. We feel sad when we are forgotten by others and similarly, others feel sad when they are forgotten. Everyone is unique and no one must be put to shame.

The poets repeat the values of gratitude, love, and respect in the final stanza to make everyone understand that without these, no one can live happily. Hence happy friendship blossoms and planting flowers bloom only with love and kindness reciprocated.

Lessons in Life Summary in Tamil

இந்த கவிதை நாம் நட்புடன் பிறருடன் பழக வேண்டும் என்பது பற்றியது ஆகும். நாம் பிறரிடம் அன்பு, கருணை, மரியாதை அவர்களது அடையாளத்தை நினைவில் வைத்து பழகுதல் போன்ற பண்புகளோடு பழகினால், நாமும் அன்பையும் மதிப்பையும் பெறுவோம். மற்றவரை மதிக்க வேண்டும். அடுத்தவர் பற்றி நினைக்க வேண்டும். வாழ்வில் எதுவும் இலவசம் இல்லை. சிறிய காரியங்களுக்கு கூட நன்றி கூற வேண்டும். வாழ்வில் நாம் கற்றுக்கொள்ளும் பாடங்கள் எளியவை அல்ல. சிறிய உயிருக்கும் அதேபோல் சிறிய அன்பான காரியங்களுக்கும் முக்கியமானவை ஆகும்.

About the Author in English Lessons in Life

Bridgette Bryant had been in the VP developing and Alumni Relations, Arcadia University U.S. She had her bachelor’s degree in Derklee college of Music.
Daniel Ho is an American musical composer and producer. Some of his albums have been nominated for the Grammy award. He has specialised in innovative approaches to music.

About the Author in Tamil Lessons in Life 

பிரிட்ஜெட் ப்ரையண்ட் என்பவர் அமெரிக்காவில் உள்ள ஆர்கேடியா பல்கலைகழகத்தின் பழைய மாணவர் கழகத்தின் விரிவாக்கப் பொறுப்பில் இருந்தவர். மேலும் அவர் பெர்க்லீ இசைக் கல்லூரியில் இளநிலை பட்டதாரி பட்டம் பெற்றவர் ஆவார்.
டேனியல் ஹோ இவர் ஒரு அமெரிக்க இசை இயலாளர் ஆவார். புதிய முறை இசை உருவாக்க வல்லவர். கிராமி அவார்டுக்கு பரிந்துரைக்கப்பட்ட பல இசை ஆல்பங்களை இவர் வெளியிட்டுள்ளார்.