Now that you have seen some techniques for creating vivid images with language, try to compose a poem or write a short descriptive paragraph using similes and colourful expressions. Work in pairs if you prefer. Then read it out to the class.

Choose one of these themes: waves, stars and moon, rocks, sunset or sunrise.

Consider the following for your chosen theme:

What does it look like?

What does it feel like?

What does it sound like?

How does it move?

Where do we see it?

When do we see it?

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Solution

A sample answer has been provided for students' reference.

It is strongly recommended that students prepare the answer on their own.

They all have come tonight again

Their charm is not to wither away

The studs from the crown of princes so proud

The twinkle of her eyes in merry or pain

They stretch so far above the heaven

They come like a hope in the darkness so deep

And move with the light that descends to fade

Them in the gloomy night emblazoned

These creatures who do not talk but little

Do they know the silence we hear?

The distance they mourn, oh! how they wish

To adorn this world, they do jostle

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1. Sit in groups.

2. Look at your friend's face and describe what you see.
Use words like long, round, oval, slanted, sharp, flat to help you.
You can use other words also.
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3. What is your favourite fruit?Describe it in five sentences.

(a) How does it smell?

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(b) How does it look?

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(d) When you bite it what sound does it make?

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(e) How does it taste?

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1. What are the things the wind does in the first stanza?

2. Have you seen anybody winnow grain at home or in a paddy field? What is the word in your language for winnowing? What do people use for winnowing? (Give words in your language if you know them.)

3. What does the poet say the wind god winnows?

4. What should we do to make friends with the wind?

5. What do the last four lines of the poem mean to you?

6. How does the poet speak to the wind—in anger or with humour? You must also have seen or heard of the wind “crumbling lives”. What is your response to this? Is it like the poet’s?

Have you ever visited or seen an elementary school in a slum? What does it look like?

Q. • Do you like sky watching? If yes, then this one should interest you:

(a) At what time does the sun rise at your place? —

(b) When does the sun set? —

• Does the sun rise and set at the same times every day?

• Look at a newspaper and see the time of sunrise and sunset in different months.

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