Treasure Trove The Patriot Stanza-6 Poem by Robert Browning Workbook ICSE English Solutions

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Treasure Trove The Patriot Stanza-6 Poem by Robert Browning Workbook ICSE English Solutions

Board ICSE
Class 9th / 10th
Subject English
Book Name Treasure Trove
Chapter-8 The Patriot
Lines 26-30 Stanza-6
Topic Workbook Question and Answer
Session 2022-23

Treasure Trove The Patriot Stanza-6 Poem by Robert Browning Workbook ICSE English Solutions

Question :– Read the following extract from the poem ‘ The Patriot Poem by Robert Browning and answer the questions that follow:

Thus I entered, and thus I go!
In triumphs, people have dropped down dead,
“Paid by the world, what dost thou owe
Me? “….God might question; now instead,
‘Tis God shall repay: I am safer so.

Question 1 Explain with reference to the context.

Reference : The stanza has been taken from the poem Patriot written by Robert Browning.

Context: This poem is a analysis of politics and people’s opinion. Whenever a leader comes into power, people call him as a patriot. and When he is dethroned, the same leader is considered a traitor. This is the true of modern politics. The leader in this poem fell a victim to the same state of affairs. When he came into power, people showered flowers at him as a patriot. But after a year, they declared him a traitor,, when he was no more in power.

Explanation:

In last 6th stanza They took him to the gallows. But Browning has ended his poem not on a tragic, rather on a next world optimistic note. In the given lines the poet, through the mouth of the deposed leader says that he was brought honorably to the chair and with great pomp and show but now he is being taken very insultingly to the gallows.

He says sometimes great heroes fall from their climax and die. Such has not happened to him. Had he died in the peak of his power, he would have been happy. Further the leader ridiculously says that heroes can not expect reward from God in the next world because they get their reward in this world. In his case people have not done him justice. They have killed him. He says after death he will go to his Lord Creator where God Might question him about his deeds he had done for the people.

He would reply that he had done his best for them but they rewarded him with shame. Now he will ask God for a reward because God is just and He would give him the best reward – in the other world for his service to his people. He would be safe with God in the work  here after.

Question 2 : Give an example of Antithesis from the poem The Patriot.

Answer : Thus I entered, and thus ” I go ! ” is an example of antithesis.

Question 3: How did the leader come and go?

Answer : The leader came like a patriot and went like a traitor.

Question 5: What type of poetic piece ‘The Patriot’ is ?

Answer : The Patriot is a dramatic monologue.

Question 6. How did the leader come and go?

Answer: The leader came like a patriot and went like a traitor.

Question 5. Can one see the faith of humans in God in the poem?

Answer: The poem is about human predicament . Good deeds are not often rewarded or appreciated in this world. People with religious belief find solace in the hope that they will be rewarded with paradise. The poet has effectively used the metaphor of calcification Jesus Christ and the poem reminds the life of Gandhiji etc.

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