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NCERT Solutions for Class 4th English Chapter 10 A. Answer the following. — Let us Think

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Q1.
1. What does the poet see when the swing goes over the wall?
Answer

When the swing goes over the wall, the poet sees rivers, trees and cattle, spread out over the countryside.

The poem says:

Up in the air and over the wall,
   Till I can see so wide,
Rivers and trees and cattle and all,
   Over the countryside.
Why he can see so much: A wall stops our eyes when we stand on the ground. The swing lifts the child above the wall. From up there nothing blocks the view, so he can see far and wide.
Tip: In the next stanza he sees two more things, but those are things he looks down on — “the garden green” and “the roof so brown”. The rivers, trees and cattle are the far-away things he sees over the wall.
Q2.
2. Does the poet enjoy swings? Which lines tell us that?
Answer

Yes, the poet enjoys swings very much.

These lines tell us that:

Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing,
   Ever a child can do!

He calls swinging the pleasantest thing — that means the most enjoyable thing of all. He does not say it about one child. He says ever a child can do, so he means all children.

The last two lines show his joy again:

Up in the air I go flying again,
   Up in the air and down!
Why these lines prove it: Three small things give the joy away. The word “Oh” at the start, like a happy shout. The word “flying”, because flying is a thing we all long to do. And the exclamation mark at the end of both stanzas.
Q3.
3. “Up in the air so blue”
Why do you think the poet says the air is blue?
Answer

The poet says the air is blue because the sky above him looks blue.

When the swing goes up, the child is not looking at the ground. He is looking straight into the wide open sky. The whole sky around him is blue, so the air itself seems blue to him.

Why he says it this way: Air has no colour at all. We cannot even see it. But a poet writes what a thing feels like, not only what it is. Flying up into all that blue feels like moving through blue air. So he calls it “the air so blue”.
Did you know? Sunlight is made of many colours mixed together. The tiny bits of air spread the blue light all around the sky. That is why the sky looks blue to us on a clear day.
Try this: Lie down on your back in an open field and look straight up. You will see nothing but blue. Now you know what the poet felt on the swing.
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