Poem No: 11
LEISURE
BY
WILLIAM HENRY DAVIS
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: -
Q/1: How is our life
worthless/useless?
OR
What sort of
life is a poor life according to W.H.Davis?
OR
What is the
poet trying to say in the last two lines of the poem ‘Leisure`?
Ans: The
poet says that life becomes poor if we do not have enough time to look at the
beauty of nature. We are busy either in earning or spending. Our life is full
of worries and fears.
Q /2: How are streams full of stars in daylight according to
the poet?
Ans: The
streams full of stars look like the skies at night.
Q /3: Explain personification in the poem?
Ans: In
the poem Leisure’, ‘beauty` has been personified. Here this word stands for a
beautiful woman.
Q /4: When does life become useless/worthless?
OR
What is this
life if full of cares/worries according to the poet?
Ans: Life
becomes useless when it is full of worries and we do not have time to enjoy the
beauty of nature. Such a life is a poor life.
Q/5: What is the main/ central idea/theme of the poem’
Leisure``?
Ans: The
main idea of the poem is that modern civilization has deprived man of two
things.
First, it has
deprived him of freedom and secondly it has made him greedy. He has no time to
enjoy the beauty of nature.