TextBook Solutions for Punjab School Education Board Class 12 English Flamingo Chapter 12 A Thing Of Beauty

(i) What is being said by John Keats to be “a joy forever”?

(ii) What is peculiar about a beautiful thing?

(iii) What can, a beautiful thing do for the human beings?

(iv) In what way does does beauty keep a bower quiet for us?

According to John Keats, ‘a thing of beauty’ is:

• ‘a joy forever’

   

• ‘a pleasure forever’

   

•  ‘a bliss forever’

   

• ‘a boon forever’

The main peculiarity of a beautiful things is:

•  it is ever green

   

• it is always charming

   

• it is never detested

   

• its loveliness goes on increasing

The charms of a thing of beauty are:

•  it reserves a quiet place in our heart

   

• it helps us in achieving peace of mind

   

• it heals our sorrows

   

• All of the above

A thing of beauty remains a joy forever because:

• it leaves its lasting effect/impression on it

   

• it leaves its lasting effect/impression on it

   

• it never moves into nothingness

   

• All of the above

   

(i) What are the flowery bands bind us to the earth?

(ii) What message do the above lines convey?

This stanza has been taken from the poem:

• My Mother at Sixty-Six

   

• A Thing of Beauty

   

• Keeping Quiet

   

• Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers

The stanza has been written by:

• John Keats

   

• Stephen Spender

   

• Pablo Nerada

   

• Robert Frost

Wreathing of flowery bands _______.

• attaches us to the earth

   

• breed countless sufferings

• display lack of our noble qualities

   

• All of the above

(i) Explain ‘in spite of all’.

(ii) What removes away the pall from our evil spirits?

(iii) Who do germinate a shady boon and for whom?

(iv) What is the common thing that the poet points out?