Home and Love
Let's understand the poem:
i. Which words are important in the first line of the poem?
Ans: Home and love are the two important words in the first line of the poem.
ii. Which two words are the sweetest, according to the poet?
Ans: According to the poet, home and love are the sweetest words.
iii. Do you think that meanings of ‘Home’ and ‘Love’ are very wide and gracious? Discuss.
Ans: Yes, home and love have very wide and gracious meanings. Home is where the heart is and when everyone in the family loves each other with deep love, it becomes heaven for the people living in it.
iv. How many times does the poet repeat ‘Home and Love’?
Ans: Seven times the poet repeats ‘Home and Love.’
v. How does the sweetness of home link up with love?
Ans: Where there is love in the home, there is sweetness in the home. There is tenderness in the home. When there is love in the home, there is peace and there is a heavenly feeling.
vi. Love without home is _______.
a. agony
b. suffering
c. pain.
Ans: c. pain
vii. Can we separate Home and Love?
Ans: No, we cannot separate home and love. Because home without Love is bitterness and love without Home is often pain.
viii. When do you sing the whole day long?
Ans: If you got love in the home, you are happy. When you are happy, you tend to sing the whole day long with satisfaction of love.
ix. When angels talk in Heaven above…. What do they lack?
Ans: The angels lack in words sweeter than home and love.
Let’s appreciate the Poem
i. The poet compares home with love. Does he find one better than the other? Why / not?
Ans: The poet does not find any better option for the replacement for either words. The poet feels that both words home and love are like hand and gloves. They complement each other.
ii. What does the line ‘The wide and gracious range of speech’ convey?
Ans: The wide and gracious range of speech refers to the depth of love. There is a wide range of tenderness in love. And there is graciousness in the speech where there is love.
iii. Which ideas do the angels discuss in Heaven?
Ans: The angels discuss home and love. They talk about there are no words sweeter than love and home.
iv. Why does bitterness arise?
Ans: When there is lack of love in home, then bitterness arises. There is lack of tenderness and peace in home which creates bitterness in home.
v. When does one have a winning position?
Ans: When there is both home and love, there is a winning position.
vi. What are the three important words in the last two lines which convey the poet’s ideas?
Ans: Sweet, home and love are the three important words in the last lines that convey poet’s ideas of love and tenderness. It other words where there is sweetness and love in home, there is peace and ultimate happiness.
vii. What message does the poet have for those who have both home and love?
Ans: If one has both home and love one is happy in their life. One leads a content life.It does not really matter whether one is poor or rich what matters is that if one has home and love there is happiness and this happiness makes one sing all day long.
Let’s do some activities
Home without love is bitterness.
Love without Home is often pain.
Some how they travel hand and glove.
Activity – 2
Fill in the blanks with suitable words or phrases given below.
a. Home is a place where angels talk?
b. Love can seldom exist without home.
c. Home and Love are sweet because they contain the wide and gracious range of speech.