Maharashtra Board Solutions for Class 9- English (My English): Chapter 3.3- To a Butterfly

Class 9: English Chapter 3.3 solutions. Complete Class 9 English Chapter 3.3 Notes.

Maharashtra Board Solutions for Class 9- English (My English): Chapter 3.3- To a Butterfly

Maharashtra Board 9th English Chapter 3.3, Class 9 English Chapter 3.3 solutions

Questions and Answers

Warming up:
Chit-chat:

1. What games did you play when you were a small child – in pre-primary or primary school?
2. Who were your playmates?
3. What do you remember best from that time?

Short Poems

Question 1.
Use the following formats to write your own poems.
noun
noun + verb
noun + verb + adverb
determiner/adjective + noun + verb + adverb
exclamation
noun + verb

If necessary, the teacher should revise the parts of speech mentioned the activity and write plenty of examples of each on the blackboard.
adjective 1
adjective 2
adjective 3
adjective 4
adjective 5
noun

verb
verb + adverb
verb + adverb + adverb
noun + verb + adverb + adverb
determiner/adjective + noun + verb + adverb + adverb
question (simple/rhetorical)

English Workshop:

Question 1.
Pick out from the first stanza, four expressions where the poet pleads with the butterfly not to go away:
Answer:

1. STAY near me
2. do not take thy flight!
3. A little longer stay in sight!
4. Float near me do not yet depart!

Question 2.
Match the words/lines and their meaning:

Answer:

3. Say WHO.

Question 1.
Say WHO.
Answer:
(a) Reminds the poet of his – butterfly childhood
(b) Is afraid to touch the butterfly – Poet’s sister
(c) Is like a hunter – the poet
(d) Is the poet’s sister – Emmeline

4. Sometimes, the normal word order is changed in the lines of a poem, to emphasise something or to make the lines sound better. This change in word order is called ‘inversion’.

Question 1.
Sometimes, the normal word order is changed in the lines of a poem, to emphasise something or to make the lines sound better. This change in word order is called ‘inversion’. Can you find examples of inversion in this poem? Write them down. Then rewrite the lines using regular word order and compare the effect.
Example: A little longer stay in sight!
Stay in sight a liitle longer.
Answer:
1. Much converse do I find in thee.
Regular word order: I do find much converse ! in thee.
2. You bring’st, gay creature as thou art!
A Solemn image to my heart, My father’s family!
Regular word order: As thou art gay creature you bringst a solemn image (of) my father’s family to my heart!

5. The rhyme scheme of the first stanza is a a b b c b c c b. Now write the rhyming words in the second stanza.

Question 1.
The rhyme scheme of the first stanza is a a b b c b c c b. Now write the rhyming words in the second stanza. Note the words ‘rush’, ‘bush’, ‘brush’. Their spellings look similar, but the pronunciation of the words is different. It is known as eye rhyme. Find examples of ‘eye rhymes’ and true rhymes from other sources.
Answer:

1. flight – sight,
2. depart – art – heart,
3. days – plays,
4. I – butterfly,
5. rush – brush,
6. springs – wings

Additional Important Questions and Answers

Simple Factual Activities:

Question 1.
Is the poet a grown-up person or a child?
Answer:
The poet is a grown-up person.

Poetic device Activities:

Question 1.
Write old English words used in the poem:
Answer:
Thy, thee, bring’st, thou, art.

Appreciation of Poem:

1. Title: ‘To a Butterfly’.
2. Poet: William Wordsworth.

3. Theme/Central Idea: The speaker of the poem (here, the poet himself) is a grown-up person who looks back to his childhood days. The sight of a butterfly reminds him of the pleasant childhood days he spent together with his sister chasing butterflies on the countryside. This is the theme of the poem.

4. Rhyme Scheme: The rhyme scheme of the first stanza is: aabbcbccb. The rhyme scheme of the second stanza is: aabbcacca

5. Figure of Speech: Inversion, Tautology.

6. Special Features: This poem is a lyric. A lyric poem expresses the mood or emotion of a single speaker. Here the poet himself, looks back to his childhood days with great fondness. The sight of a butterfly reminds him of the pleasant childhood days he spent with his sister chasing butterflies on the countryside.

7. Favourite Lines:

1. Stay near me-do not take they flight.
   A Little longer stay in sight.
2. Dead times review in thee.

8. Why I like the poem: I like this poem for its simplicity. The happy days of childhood are portrayed here with great effect in a few lines.

Short Poems

Question 1.
Use your own ideas, words to write your own poems:
Examples:
1. Rolling, roaring deep blue sea
We always long to visit and see.
2. Playing and laughing,
Heedless of everything,
We pass our childhood days,
Like colourful morning rays.

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Chapterwise Maharashtra Board Solutions Class 9 English :

English Kumarbharati

Unit 1

• Chapter 1.1- Life
• Chapter 1.2- A Synopsis – The Swiss Family Robinson
• Chapter 1.3- Have you ever seen…?
• Chapter 1.4- Have you thought of the verb ‘have’ …
• Chapter 1.5- The Necklace

Unit 2

• Chapter 2.1-  Invictus
• Chapter 2.2- A True Story of Sea Turtles
• Chapter 2.3- Somebody’s Mother
• Chapter 2.4- The Fall of Troy
• Chapter 2.5- Autumn
• Chapter 2.6- The Past in the Present

Unit 3

• Chapter 3.1- Silver
• Chapter 3.2- Reading Works of Art
• Chapter 3.3- The Road Not Taken
• Chapter 3.4- How the First Letter was Written

Unit 4

• Chapter 4.1- Please Listen
• Chapter 4.2- The Storyteller
• Chapter 4.3- Intellectual Rubbish
• Chapter 4.4- My Financial Career
• Chapter 4.5- Tansen

My English

Unit 1

• Chapter 1.1- Walk a Little Slower
• Chapter 1.2- The Fun they Had
• Chapter 1.3- ‘Hope’ is the Thing with Feathers
• Chapter 1.4- The Story of Tea
• Chapter 1.5- The Necklace

Unit 2

• Chapter 2.1- Comparisons
• Chapter 2.2- Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan
• Chapter 2.3- Mark Twain
• Chapter 2.4- Please Listen!
• Chapter 2.5- A Play

Unit 3

• Chapter 3.1- Coromandel Fishers
• Chapter 3.2- The Fall of Troy
• Chapter 3.3- To a Butterfly
• Chapter 3.4- Think Before You Speak!
• Chapter 3.5- Great Scientists

Unit 4

• Chapter 4.1- What is Success?
• Chapter 4.2- Reading Works of Art
• Chapter 4.3- Silver
• Chapter 4.4- The Tempest
• Chapter 4.5- The Last Lesson

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