English Literature Made Easy for Students

  The Landscape of the Soul by Nathalie Trouveroy Questions and Answers: Short Answer-type Qs (30-35 Words each) Q1. What is the Chinese view of art? Ans. A classical Chinese landscape is not meant to r eproduce (present/copy) an actual view. He does not choose a single viewpoint. The artist creates a path for your eyes to travel up and down, then back again, in an easy manner. Q2. What is the European view on art? Ans. . The European painter wants you to borrow his eyes and look at a particular landscape exactly as he saw it, from a specific angle. Q3. Who was Wu Daoji? Why did he make the landscape? Ans. Wu Daozi was a famous Chinese painter. He lived in the 8 th century. the Tang Emperor Xuanzong ordered him to make a painting to decorate a wall of his palace. Q4. What happened when the painter clapped? Ans. The painter clapped his hands, and the entrance to the cave opened. The painter entered the cave, but the entrance closed behind him. The painting had van...

  Father to a Son (A)                        Short Answer-type Questions (About 30-40 words each) Q1.   Explain the lines: “Yet have I killed  The seed I spent or sown it where The land is his and none of mine?” Ans. the father means to say that he has sowed the seeds of his ideas into his son’s mind, but his ideas did not cause any fruitful effect there. The son did not shape his own personality in the frame that his father had desired. Q2. Explain the lines: “This child is built to my design Yet what he loves I cannot share.  Silence surrounds us…..” Ans. The meaning in the above lines is very much clear. The father says that the son has a full physical resemblance to him.  Q4. What is the reason for this kind of relationship between the son and the father in the poem? Ans. It is communication gap that is responsible for such a bad...

  Childhood by Markus Natten Short Answer-type Questions (About 30-40 words each) Q1. What answer /answers did the poet provide to the question put in the first stanza:  “When did his childhood go?” Ans.  The poet tries to answer himself that it was the day when he completed the eleventh year of his age. It was the time when he had started realising the difference between ‘Hell and Heaven’. He came to know that ‘Hell and Heaven’ did not exist (present) anywhere. Those were only the states of mind. Q2. What answer /answers did the poet provide to the question put in the second stanza: “When did my childhood go?” Ans. The poet realised that adults were not what they all seemed to be. They appeared what they were not from inside. They talked and preached about love. But they did not follow what they preached. They were hypocrites. Q3. What answer /answers did the poet provide to the question put in the third stanza:  “When did his childhood go?” Ans. ...