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CHAPTERWISE ( प्रश्न – उत्तर )
Poetry Section
CHAPTER – 1 Sweetest Love I Do Not Goe John Donne Page 1 - 12
CHAPTER – 2 Song Of Myself Walt Whitman

CHAPTER – 3 Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast W.H. Auden

CHAPTER – 4 To Autumn John Keats

CHAPTER – 5 An Epitaph Walter De La

Mare
CHAPTER – 6 The Soldier Rupert Brooke
CHAPTER – 7 Macavity : The Mystery Cat T.S Eliot

CHAPTER – 8 Fire- Hymn Keki N.

Daruwala
CHAPTER – 9 Snake D.H Lawrence
CHAPTER – 10 My Grandmother’s House Kamla Das
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 Chapter- 1 // Sweetest Love I Do not Goe 

 Personal Details 
 Born  1572
 Death  1631

 He was the pioneer of a new kind of lyrical and satirical verse called
‘Metaphysical’ was born in London into a prosperous Roman Catholic
family of traders at a time when England was staunchly anti-Catholic.
 Donne was forced to leave Oxford University without a degree because
of his religion.
 He studied law, and read theology. He also participated in two Naval
expeditions and became secretary to a powerful noble, a job he last
when he was briefly sent to prison for secretly marrying his patron’s
niece.
 In 1615, at the age of 42, Donne accepted ordination in the Anglican
Church and soon became one of the greatest preachers of his time.
 In love-lyricism, Donne broke completely with the Petrarchan tradition,
introducing an intellectual and colloquial tone.
 His love poems use the latest discoveries of science and geography to
hammer home a point and combine passion with verbal and intellectual
‘teasing’.

 Donne is well known for his Songs and Sonnets, Satires and the Elegies
and Sermons. Genuine poetic feeling, harsh metres, strained and
whimsical images characterise all his poetic creations.
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 Poem

Sweetest love, I do not goe,

For wearinesse of thee,
Nor in the hope the world can show
A fitter Love for mee;
But since that I
Must dye at last, ‘tis best,
To use my selfe in jest
Thus by fain’d deaths to dye.

Yesternight the Sunne went hence,

And yet is here to day
He hath no desire nor sense,
Nor half so short a way:

Then fear not mee,

But believe that I shall make Speedier
journeys, since I take more wings
and spurred then hee.

O how feeble is mans power,

That if good fortune fall,
Cannot adde another houre
Nor a lost houre recall!
But come bad chance,
And we joyne to it our strength,
And wee teach it art and length
It selfe o’r us to advance,
When thou sigh’st thou sigh’st not winde,
But sigh’st my soule away.
When thou weep’st, unkindly kinde,
My lifes blood doth decay.
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It cannot bee
That thou lov’st mee, as thou say’st
If in thine my life thou waste,
Thou art the best of mee
Let not thy divining heart
Forthinke me any ill,
Destiny may take thy part,
And may thy feares fulfil;
But thinke that wee
Are but turn’d aside to sleepe;
They who one another keepe
Alive, ne’r parted bee.

 Summary 
 ‘Sweetest Love I do not Goe’ is an outstanding love poem has been
taken from the prescribed text book Rainbow-II, composed by the
Metaphysical poet John Donne. In this poem, the poet is comforting
his wife saying that true lovers never part away.
 The poet further says that he is not tired of the relationship but is
travelling only because he wants to. He asks his beloved not to be upset
on his departure but let him go happily. He explains to her that one day
we have to part, so why not give it a trail and be ready for the final
departure (death)?
 He comforts her beloved also saying that she is very dear to him and is
the source of his existence, so this temporarily separation should not
affect her.
 He also assures her that he will return from his journey like the sun
which returns every day to spread brightness and light in this world. He
forbids his beloved to cry or sigh because her cries and sighs decay his
blood and takes away his soul from his body respectively.
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 Ultimately the poet gives her encouragement saying that though they
are two bodies but one soul and always be together in spirit, if not in
physical form.
 Finally, it’s praise worthy presentation by the poet where he beautifully
expressed his ideas regarding true love. The words are very simple and
attractive either. The motive of the poet is very clear here so that
readers may comprehend it thoroughly.

 Summarize In Hindi 

 'स्वीरे स्ट िव आई डू नच गच' एक उत्कृ ष्ट प्रेम कट्वता है जच मेराट्िलजकि कट्व जॉन डचने द्वारा
रलचत ट्नधाारितरत पाय प प्तक क रेनिच- II से िी गई है। इस कट्वता में कट्व अपनी पत्नी कच सांत्वना
दे ते हुए कह रहा है ट्क सच्े प्यार करने वािे कभी अिग नहीं हचते।
 कट्व आगे कहता है ट्क वह इस रितरश्ते से थका हुआ नहीं है िल्कि लसिा इसलिए यात्रा कर रहा है
क्चंट्क वह ऐसा करना चाहता है। वह अपनी प्रेट्मका से कहता है ट्क वह उसके जाने पर उदास न
हच िल्कि उसे ख्शी-ख्शी जाने दे। वह उसे समझाता है ट्क एक ट्दन हमें अिग हचना ही है , तच
क्चं न इसे एक राह मानकर अंट्तम प्रस्थान (मृत्य)् के लिए तैयार रहें?
 वह अपनी प्रेट्मका कच सांत्वना देते हुए यह भी कहता है ट्क वह उसे िहुत ट्प्रय है और उसके
अल्कतक त्व का स्रचत है, इसलिए इस अस्थायी अिगाव का उस पर कचई प्रभाव नहीं पड़ना चाट्हए।
 वह उसे यह भी आश्वासन देता है ट्क वह अपनी यात्रा से सूरज की तरह वापस आएगा जच इस
द्ट्नया में चमक और प्रकाश िैिाने के लिए हर ट्दन िौरता है। वह अपनी प्रेट्मका कच रचने या
आहें भरने से मना करता है क्चंट्क उसकी चीखें और आहें क्रमशः उसके खून कच नष्ट कर दे ती हैं
और उसकी आत्मा कच उसके शरीर से छीन िेती हैं।
 अंततः कट्व उसे यह कहते हुए प्रचत्साहन दे ता है ट्क यद्यट्प वे दच शरीर हैं िेट्कन एक आत्मा हैं और
भौट्तक रूप में नहीं तच आत्मा में हमेशा एक साथ रहेंगे।
 अंत में, यह कट्व की सराहनीय प्रतक ्ट्त है जहााँ उन्चंने सच्े प्यार के िारे में अपने ट्वचार खूिसूरती
से व्यक्त ट्कए हैं। शब्द भी िहुत सरि और आकषाक हैं. यहााँ कट्व का उद्दे श्य ट्िि् ि स्पष्ट है
ताट्क पाठक इसे अच्छी तरह समझ सकें ।
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 Answer the following questions briefly: 
Q1. What does the poet want to go away from his beloved?
Ans:- The poet wants to go away from his beloved because he wants to
experience final parting which comes with death.

Q2. What are the things that the sun doesn’t have?
Ans:- The sun has neither sense nor desire. He doesn’t have even a short
route to come.

Q3. What will make the speaker’s journey speedier?

Ans:- The speaker’s journey would only be speedier if his beloved- his
wife, is ready to part with him happily, let him go to the journey with a
smile. This would make his journey speedier.

Q4. What makes a man’s power feeble?

Ans:- When good time comes man neither can add or recall even a
second of his life. This time he feels very weak himself because he can
do nothing to control the time even if he wants.

Q5. How do sighing and weeping affect the speaker?

Ans:- Sighing and weeping takes the speaker's soul away and his
lifeblood decays respectively.
Q6. How does the beloved waste the speaker’s life?
Ans:- Actually the speaker wants to complete his journey and experience
final parting which comes with death but his beloved doesn’t want him
to go away from her and she cries and sighs a lot. she stops him by
taking the best hour of his life. Thus the beloved waste the speaker’s life.

Q7. In what way will the lovers remain united?

Ans:- True lovers live in each other’s consciousness. No power of this
universe can separate them. Though death comes to both and may affect
them physically, no one can destroy their divine bond. So by this way
the lovers remain united.
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 Explain the following lines: 

1. O how feeble is man’s power.

Ans:- This line has been taken from the chapter, ‘Sweetest Love I do not
Goe’, composed by the Metaphysical poet ‘John Donne’.
Through this beautiful line the poet wants to express that there is no
way for mankind to control how time passes. However man is lucky, he
can’t neither add nor recall a second of his life.

2. They who one another keepe

Alive, ne’r parted bee
Ans:- This line has been taken from the chapter, ‘Sweetest Love I do not
Goe’, composed by the Metaphysical poet ‘John Donne’.
Through this beautiful line the poet wants to advise her wife not to
overthink as it leads to depression. He wants to make her understand
that their love is everlasting. No power can separate them.

 Objective Type Questions 

1. Who is called the pioneer of 3. ‚That thoust love mee as thou

metaphysical poetry? say'st is from......‛
(A) Samuel Johnson (A) Sweetest love I do not goe
(B) Andrew Marsell (B) fire hymn
(C) John Donne (C) the soldier
(D) John Dryden (D) Walter De La mare

2. Who has written the poem 4. John Donne is a .....................

sweetest love I do not Goe? poet.
(A) John Donne (A) Nature
(B) W.H. Auden. (B) metaphysical
(C) D.H Lawrence (C) romantic
(D) Walt Whitman (D) pessimistic
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5. Which type of lover never part 11. John Donne is well known
away? for.....
(A) Romantic lover (A) Songs and sonnets
(B) noble lover (B) free versa
(C) true lover (C) narrative
(D) cute lover (D) epic

12. …………… has been described

6. What are the things that the
as a metaphysical poet.
sun does not have?
(A) Kamala Das
(A) Ability and wish
(B) John Donne
(B) sense and love.
(C) D.H. Lawrence
(C) sense and desire
(D) T. S. Eliot
(D) credit and wit
13. Donne studied law and
7. Who cannot add another hour read.……………
when good fortune fall? (A) theology (B) drama
(A) Beloved (B) lover (C) philosophy (D) novels
(C) poet (D) man
14. The poet (John Donne) is
8. The sun has no half but better than the …………..
the.....has. (A) Sun (B) Stars
(A) Poet (B) man (C) Jupiter (D) Galaxy
(C) bride (D) sky
15. Sweetest Love I Do Not Goe
is written by ………….
9. The speaker's blood decay
(A) John Donne
when the beloved.......
(B) L.H. Lawrence
(A) Sob (B) weep
(C) Rupert Brooke
(C) sigh (D) lament
(D) W.H. Auden
10. The speaker's soul goes away
16. The poet in Sweetest Love I
when the beloved........
Do Not Goe is…………. his
(A) Sigh (B) repent
beloved.
(C) cheat (D) weep
(A) fed of (B) sad of
(C) happy with (D) pleased with
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17. His beloved says that she has 23. What makes man power
a great love for …………….. feeble?
(A) T.S. Eliot (A) bad time
(B) John Donne (B) good time
(C) Rupert Brooke (C) bad chance
(D) D.H. Lawrence (D) good fortune

18. John Donne feels that a 24. Who will make speedier
……………. is very hopeless. journeys than the sun?
(A) man (B) horse (A) the beloved (B) the lady
(C) donkey (D) pig (C) the poet (D) man

19. John Donne had seen the sun 25. Who one another keep alive,
setting …………… night. never………bee.
(A) next (B) yester (A) together (B) parted
(C) before (D) forth coming (C) joined (D) separated

20. …………… wants to gladly

26.What is the synonym of
accept death.
‘Feeble’?
(A) Rupert Brooke
(A) life (B) death
(B) W.H. Auden
(C) strong (D) weak
(C) John Donne
(D) T.S. Eliot
27. What is the synonym of
21. John Donne is going to ‘Weariness’?
……………. leaving his wife (A) put (B) tiredness
behind. (C) joy (D) weak
(A) Germany (B) Denmark
(C) Poland (D) Austria 28. The pioneer of a new kind of
lyrical and satirical verse
22. John Donne thinks that called…………….
………..is inevitable (A) Romantic (B) Nature
(A) death (b) life (C) Metaphysical (D) Veteran
(c) work (d) walking
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29. When John Donne was born, 35. In love lyricism, John Donne
England was staunchly………… broke completely ……tradition.
(A) Nepotism (A) Shakespeare (B) Petrarchan
(B) Racial discrimination (C) Langland (D) Wordsworth
(C) Anti-Catholic
(D) Catholic 36. John Donne is well Known
for his songs and…………
30. Which university was John
(A) Poems (B) Sonnets
Donne forced to leave without a
(C) Shayri (D) Speech
degree?
(A) Cambridge (B) Oxford
37. Except songs and sonnets
(C) Harvard (D) None
what was John Donne famous
31. John Donne also participated for?
in two……..expeditions. (A) Speech, Shayri and Dialogue
(A) Water (B) Air (B) Satires, Elegies and Sermons
(C) Naval (D) Road (C) Songs, speech, and sermons
(D) None of these
32. John Donne lost his job when
he was briefly sent to jail for
38. Why was John Donne forced
secretly marrying his……………?
to leave Oxford University?
(A) Owner’s daughter
(A) because of poverty
(B) Owner’s niece
(B) because of attitude
(C) Patron’s niece
(C) because of religion
(D) Patron’s daughter
(D) because of less wisdom
33. At what stage of age John
Donne accepted ordination in 39. John Donne asks his beloved
the Anglican Church? not to fore think him any……….
(A) 37 (B) 42 (A) bad (B) ill
(C) 40 (D) 43 (C) good (D) worse

34. John Donne became secretary 40. John Donne became one of
to a powerful…………. the greatest…………..of his time.
(A) Novel (B) Nobel (A) teachers (B) preachers
(C) Noble (D) None (C) doctors (D) motivator
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