Have you earned your tomorrow?

 

Q.1    Read the extract and complete the activities given below. 

Is anybody happier because you passed his way?
Does anyone remember that you spoke to him today?
This day is almost over, and its toiling time is through;
Is there anyone to utter now a kindly word of you?

Did you give a cheerful greeting to the friend who came along?
Or a churlish sort of “Howdy” and then vanish in the throng?
Were you selfish pure and simple as you rushed along the way,
Or is someone mighty grateful for a deed you did today?

Can you say tonight, in parting with the day that’s slipping fast,
That you helped a single brother of the many that you passed?
Is a single heart rejoicing over what you did or said;
Does a man whose hopes were fading now with courage look ahead?

Did you waste the day, or lose it, was it well or sorely spent?
Did you leave a trail of kindness or a scar of discontent?
As you close your eyes in slumber do you think that God would say,
You have earned one more tomorrow by the work you did today?

A1]     Complete the table.
Complete the table giving the essential good things one has to do every time given in the extract.

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A2]    Explain            
            Explain the contrast given the extract in 50 words.   

A3]    Personal response.
           Give your idea with dealing with strange persons.
A4]    Poetic device
1]      Write the rhyming words from the extract 
2]      Write rhyme scheme of the first stanza

A5]    Poetic creativity
Recompose the following poetic lines as assertive lines without changing the theme.
Is anybody happier  because your passed his way
Dose anyone remember that you spoke to him today?
This day is almost over, and its toiling time is through;
Is there anyone to utter now a kindly word of you ?    

  A1]    Match

1]      Match the words given column ‘A’ with their meaning in column ‘B’
                  A                                B
1]      Cheerful               a]       with the feeling of disappointment
2]      Selfish                  b]      lack of satisfaction
3]      Sorely                   c]       happy
4]      Discontent          d]      concerned with one’s own pleasure

A2]    Explain

Explain the line- ‘You have earned one more tomorrow by the work you did today?’

A3]    Personal response         
Give your ways to develop good social relationships with others.
A4]    Poetic device
Questions are used here as a poetic device. Explain its use.
A5]    Poetic creativity
Add your two poetic lines to rhyme with the given line.
As you close your eyes in slumber do you think that God would say.