Unit 2.2 The Indian Weavers Textual Activity.

 2.2 Indian Weavers

BRAINSTORMING

(A1) Discuss with your partner about the following vocations:


(a) Weaving - Weaving is a method of textile production in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth.  

(b) Tailoring - A tailoring is a profession in which a person makes, repairs, or alters clothing professionally, especially suits and men's clothing.

(c) Knitting – Knitting is a method by which yarn is manipulated to create a textile or fabric; it is used in many types of garments

 (d) Embroidering – Embroidering is to decorate cloth or clothing with patterns or pictures consisting of stitches that are sewn directly onto the material

(A2) (i) Discuss the various products made by the weavers in the poem.

Ans: In the poem the weavers made different garments for different people. The weavers wove the robes of a new-born baby, a marriage-veils of a queen and a dead man’s shroud.

(ii) The words in the three stanzas of the poem mention different times of a day. Complete the table.

    Time of the day                            Words/phrases                             Weaver’s work

    Early morning                                Break of day        Weavers weave robes for the new-born child

    Late in the evening                        Fall of night            They weave the marriage-veil of a queen.


(iii) The poem reveals three phases of life. Fill in the blanks with feelings and colours appropriate to the phases of life. One is done for you.


        New-born/ Childhood                    Youth/Adulthood                                        Old age/ Death

Colour        Blue                                    Purple and green                                            White

Feeling        Hopes and expectations        Joy and delight                                        Sad / grief


(iv) Complete:  The weavers weave in the chill moonlight ………..(a dead man’s funeral shroud. )

 

(v) Pick out two words used to describe the weavers in the last stanza. Also state their importance.

The poet describes the weavers as solemn and still in the last stanza. They are solemn and still because they are weaving a shroud for the dead man.


(vi) Express your views about the present condition of weavers.

(vii) Describe in your own words the steps or measures that can be taken to

solve the problems of the weavers.

(viii) Express your own views and opinions from the weavers’ point of view

and complete the following table.

    Stanza                        Activity (done byweavers)                        Views/Opinion

First stanza                Robes for a new-born child        The weavers feel gay because their work indicates                                                                                         the beginning full of hope.

Second stanza            Marriage-veil for a bride            They feel excited because their work indicates a                                                                                             new journey of life.

Third stanza                Shroud for a dead body                They are gloomy because their work indicates                                                                                                 the end of life.

(A3) (i) Pick out the rhyming words from the poem.

Day-gay ; wild-child ; night-bright; green-queen ; still-chill; cloud-shroud.

(ii) Give antonyms and synonyms of the following and make sentences of your

own.

        Word                                        Antonym                                            Synonym

         new                                            old                                                        latest

        bright                                            dark                                                    shining

        dead                                            alive                                                    expired

         still                                             active                                                    calm

         wild                                            tame                                                        fierce

        fall                                                rise                                                        drop down

        child                                            adult                                                        Infant


(iii) Make a word register for clothes/attire/ dress

Ans: garments, robes, veil, shroud

A4. (i)Complete the following table.

    Figure of Speech                                       Line                                Explanation

1. Simile                        Blue as the wing of a halcyon wild        the blue colour robe is directly                                                                                                                         compared to the haicyon bird

                                        Like the plumes of a peacock            the colour of the marriage clothes are                                                                                                     compared directly to the feathers of the                                                                                                         peacock

                                      White as a feather---a cloud            the  funeral shroud is directly compared to                                                                                                     the colour of the feather  and cloud

2. Imagery                Purple & green, halycon wild, feather

                                cloud, blue, peacock, moonlight, day, night    Images used to heighten the effect

3. Metaphor            all the 3 stanza                                        stages of life

4. Alliteration        weavers weaving                                  continious reptition of consonant sound 'w'

(ii)    Rhyme scheme of the poem is 'aabb'

A5.(i) The effect of the questions asked in the poem makes the readers think and participate in the mood of the poem.

(iii) Poetic Creativity on 'Importance of clothes'

Clothes add to our beauty

Let not beauty make you haughty

Garments cover the body

but qualities cover the soul. 


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