2.6 Money : Activity Sheet.

2.6 Money : Activity Sheet

Q. 1 A Read the extract and do all the activities given below.

A1 Match the pairs.

Column A	Column B
1. When he had money	a. his friends were real.
2. He felt like a child	b. hum like bees .
3.Poor men's wives	c. that holds a trumpet but can't blow.
4. When he had no money	d. his friends were false.

 

A2. The poet found real happiness when he had no money. Elaborate.

A3. Give your opinion about ' Happiness can't be bought with money.'

A4. ' Much have I thought of life.' Name the figures of speech and find another similar example.

A5. Convert the following sentences into poetic lines.

1. I was a poor man.

2. Because I had no work.

Answers

Column A	Column B
1. When he had money	d. his friends were false.
2. He felt like a child	c. that holds a trumpet but can't blow.
3.Poor men's wives	b. hum like bees.
4. When he had no money	a. his friends were real.

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A2. When the poet had money many false friends gathered around him. He could not enjoy the real happiness and joy. The importance of money was realised when he lost the money. But that was real happiness for him because he had true friends around him.

A3. It is rightly said that happiness can't be bought with money. Happiness is a state of mind. It is achieved with contentment. With money one can buy mattress but not rest.

A4. Inversion: The line is not in a prose order. The correct order is - I have thought much of life.

Another example of inversion - Then felt I like a child that holds.

A5. A poor man was I

Because no work had I.

Poetic Appreciation: 2.6 Money

The poem ‘Money’ is written by William H. Davies, a Welsh poet. After several years of a wandering life, he published his volume of poems.

The poem ‘Money’ tells us about the rich man who wants to be a poor man to find real happiness. It is when we do not have money or have lost our money, we realize how important the money is.

There are five stanzas of four lines each. The poet has maintained the particular rhyming pattern in the first four stanzas. The second line rhymes with the fourth line. He has made use of repetition skilfully. Poetic devices like inversion, simile, onomatopoeia and antithesis made the effective.

The poem is closely associated with the modern world. The underlying message in the poem is money cannot give you eternal happiness.