Chapter 1
Beauty
Beauty
C1. Answer the following questions. Share your response with others:
1. List out the things where beauty can be seen during the day.
Answer: The poet has a simple idea of beauty. She says that beauty can be seen in the sunlight, trees, and birds as well as in corn growing, people working or people dancing for the harvest. This is an original idea of beauty.
2. The poet says ‘beauty is heard in the night’. Pick out any two things of beauty from the poem that are seen at night.
Answer: In the second stanza, the poet talks about how beauty can be heard. Beauty can be heard at night when the wind sighs and when the rain falls and when a singer sings in earnest from the depth of his heart.
3. Read the first and second stanzas of the poem again. Note the following phrases. Corn growing, peopleworking or dancing, wind sighing, rain falling, a singer chanting.. These could be written as
1. Corn that is growing
2. People who are working or dancing.
Can you rewrite the other phrases like this? Why do you think the poet uses the shorter phrases? Answer: The other phrases in the poem are wind sighing — Wind that is sighing, rain falling — the rain that is falling singer chanting — the singer who is chanting The poetess uses shorter phrases to give stress or emotional feeling.
4. The Poet says ‘Beauty is seen’ and ‘Beauty is heard’. List out the beautiful things you have seen or heard.
Answer: There are beautiful things to be seen all around us. From a blade of grass to a banyan tree, from an ant to a mammoth, from the laughing, innocent face of a child to the chuckling, wrinkled visage of an old man, there is beauty in the world of nature and in the world of men. There is also beauty in the monuments built by men, machines produced by men, and artifacts made by men.
4. The Poet says ‘Beauty is seen’ and ‘Beauty is heard’. List out the beautiful things you have seen or heard.
Answer: There are beautiful things to be seen all around us. From a blade of grass to a banyan tree, from an ant to a mammoth, from the laughing, innocent face of a child to the chuckling, wrinkled visage of an old man, there is beauty in the world of nature and in the world of men. There is also beauty in the monuments built by men, machines produced by men, and artifacts made by men.
5. The poet says ‘Beauty is in yourself.’ What things does she mention here? When does she want us to follow them?
Answer: Beauty is in ourselves. That is in our good deeds, happy thoughts. These all repeat themselves in our dreams, in our work, and in our rest.
6. Write a paragraph about beauty. You can use your own ideas along with the ideas in the poem.(You may discuss with your partner)
Answer: The saying ‘Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder’ shows that the perception of beauty is subjective. The Keatsian sentiment ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’ argues that beauty transcends time. There is also the saying that beauty is skin deep. Here, the idea is that physical beauty is transitory and fades- away as time passes and age catches. It is clear that there are different ideas of beauty. My idea of beauty is to have a beautiful mind that does not allow anything of beauty, whether natural or manmade, to be destroyed.
7. The phrase wind sighing’ is personification. Give two more examples of personification. You may take the help of your teacher.
Answer: Rain falling, Happy thoughts are examples of Personification.
1. List out the things where beauty can be seen during the day.
Answer: The poet has a simple idea of beauty. She says that beauty can be seen in the sunlight, trees, and birds as well as in corn growing, people working or people dancing for the harvest. This is an original idea of beauty.
2. The poet says ‘beauty is heard in the night’. Pick out any two things of beauty from the poem that are seen at night.
Answer: In the second stanza, the poet talks about how beauty can be heard. Beauty can be heard at night when the wind sighs and when the rain falls and when a singer sings in earnest from the depth of his heart.
3. Read the first and second stanzas of the poem again. Note the following phrases. Corn growing, peopleworking or dancing, wind sighing, rain falling, a singer chanting.. These could be written as
1. Corn that is growing
2. People who are working or dancing.
Can you rewrite the other phrases like this? Why do you think the poet uses the shorter phrases? Answer: The other phrases in the poem are wind sighing — Wind that is sighing, rain falling — the rain that is falling singer chanting — the singer who is chanting The poetess uses shorter phrases to give stress or emotional feeling.
4. The Poet says ‘Beauty is seen’ and ‘Beauty is heard’. List out the beautiful things you have seen or heard.
Answer: There are beautiful things to be seen all around us. From a blade of grass to a banyan tree, from an ant to a mammoth, from the laughing, innocent face of a child to the chuckling, wrinkled visage of an old man, there is beauty in the world of nature and in the world of men. There is also beauty in the monuments built by men, machines produced by men, and artifacts made by men.
4. The Poet says ‘Beauty is seen’ and ‘Beauty is heard’. List out the beautiful things you have seen or heard.
Answer: There are beautiful things to be seen all around us. From a blade of grass to a banyan tree, from an ant to a mammoth, from the laughing, innocent face of a child to the chuckling, wrinkled visage of an old man, there is beauty in the world of nature and in the world of men. There is also beauty in the monuments built by men, machines produced by men, and artifacts made by men.
5. The poet says ‘Beauty is in yourself.’ What things does she mention here? When does she want us to follow them?
Answer: Beauty is in ourselves. That is in our good deeds, happy thoughts. These all repeat themselves in our dreams, in our work, and in our rest.
6. Write a paragraph about beauty. You can use your own ideas along with the ideas in the poem.(You may discuss with your partner)
Answer: The saying ‘Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder’ shows that the perception of beauty is subjective. The Keatsian sentiment ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’ argues that beauty transcends time. There is also the saying that beauty is skin deep. Here, the idea is that physical beauty is transitory and fades- away as time passes and age catches. It is clear that there are different ideas of beauty. My idea of beauty is to have a beautiful mind that does not allow anything of beauty, whether natural or manmade, to be destroyed.
7. The phrase wind sighing’ is personification. Give two more examples of personification. You may take the help of your teacher.
Answer: Rain falling, Happy thoughts are examples of Personification.
Beauty Poem Summary in English
The poetess describes beauty’ in this poem. She is trying to tell us that beauty is everything in life. Beauty can be seen in the sunlight, the trees, the birds, corn growing, people working, dancing and singing in their harvest, wherever we see, the beauty is there.
We can hear the beauty in the night that is sighing wind, falling raindrops, chanting melodious hymns and anything serious and sincere.
We can see the beauty in ourselves. That is good deeds, happy memorable thoughts childhood, repeated thoughts in our dreams, in our work and even in our rest. Beauty is God and God is beauty.
Beauty Poem Summary in Kannada
ಎ. ಇ. ಶೂರ್ ಎಂಬುದು ಲೂಯಿಸ್ ಅಬೀಟಾರವರ ಕಾವ್ಯನಾಮ. ಇವರು ಅಮೆರಿಕಾದ ನ್ಯೂ ಮೆಕ್ಸಿಕೋದವರು, ಇವರು ಲೇಖಕರು ಕವಿಯಿತ್ರಿ ಹಾಗೂ ಶಿಕ್ಷಣದ ತರಭೇತುದಾರರು, ಈ ಪದ್ಯಹೆಸರೇ ಸೂಚಿಸುವಂತೆ ಸುಂದರವಾದ ಸರಳ ಪದ್ಯ ಚಿಕ್ಕದಾದರೂ ಚೊಕ್ಕವಾಗಿದೆ. ಸುಂದರವಾದ ಸರಳ ಪದ್ಯ , ಕವಿಯಿತ್ರಿಯವರ ಪ್ರಕಾರ ಸೌಂದರ್ಯ ಎನ್ನುವುದು ಎಲ್ಲೆಲ್ಲಿಯೂ ಇದೆ. ಇದನ್ನು ನೋಡಬಹುದು ಮತ್ತು ಕೇಳಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಬಹುದು ನಮ್ಮ ಸುತ್ತಮುತ್ತ ಇರುವ ಗಿಡಮರಗಳು ಪಕ್ಷಿಗಳು, ದವಸಧಾನ್ಯಗಳ ಬೆಳವಣಿಗೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡುವ ಜನರಲಿ ಸುಗ್ಗಿಯ ಕಾಲದ ಜನರ ನರ್ತನದಲ್ಲಿ ಸೌಂದರ್ಯವು ಸೂರ್ಯನ ಪ್ರಕಾಶದಲ್ಲಿ ಎದ್ದು ಕಾಣುತ್ತದೆ,
ಸೌಂದರ್ಯವನ್ನು ರಾತ್ರಿಯ ಹೊತ್ತಿನ ತಂಗಾಳಿಯ ಶಬ್ದದಲ್ಲಿ ಎದ್ದು ಕಾಣುತ್ತದೆ. ಸೌಂದರ್ಯವನ್ನು ರಾತ್ರಿಯ ಹೊತ್ತಿನ ತಂಗಾಳಿಯು ಶಬ್ದದಲ್ಲಿ ಬೀಳುವ ಮಳೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಅಥವಾ ಸಂಗೀತಗಾರರ ಇಂಪಾದ ಮಂತ್ರ ಪಠನದಲ್ಲಿ ಅಥವಾ ಸಂಗೀತಗಾರರ ಇಂಪಾದ ಮಂತ್ರ ಪಠನದಲ್ಲಿ ಅಥವಾ ನಂಬಿಕೆ ಮತ್ತು ಗಂಭೀರವಾದ ಯಾವುದೇ ಕೆಲಸಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಕೇಳಬಹುದು.
ಸೌಂದರ್ಯವು ನಮ್ಮಲ್ಲಿಯೇ ಇರುತ್ತದೆ. ಎಂದರೆ ನಮ್ಮ ಸುತ್ತಮುತ್ತ ಇರುವ ಗಿಡಮರಗಳು ಪಕ್ಷಿಗಳು ದವಸಧಾನ್ಯಗಳ ಬೆಳವಣಿಗೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡುವ ಜನರಲ್ಲಿ ಸುಗ್ಗಿಯ ಕಾಲದ ಜನರ ನರ್ತನದಲ್ಲಿ ಸೌಂದರ್ಯವು ಸೂರ್ಯನ ಪ್ರಕಾಶದಲ್ಲಿ ಎದ್ದು ಕಾಣುತ್ತದೆ. ಸೌಂದರ್ಯವನ್ನು ರಾತ್ರಿಯ ಹೊತ್ತಿನ ತಂಗಾಳಿಯ ಶಬ್ದದಲ್ಲಿ ಬೀಳುವ ಮಳೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಅಥವಾ ರಾತ್ರಿಯ ಹೊತ್ತಿನ ತಂಗಾಳಿಯ ಶಬ್ದದಲ್ಲಿ ಬೀಳುವ ಮಳೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಅಥವಾ ಸಂಗೀತಗಾರರ ಇಂಪಾದ ಮಂತ್ರ ಪಠನದಲ್ಲಿ ಅಥವಾ ನಂಬಿಕೆ ಮತ್ತು ಗಂಭೀರವಾದ ಯಾವುದೇ ಕೆಲಸಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಕೇಳಬಹುದು. ಸೌಂದರ್ಯವು ನಮ್ಮಲ್ಲಿಯೇ ಇರುತ್ತದೆ. ಎಂದರೆ ನಮ್ಮ ಒಳ್ಳೆಯ ಕೆಲಸಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಸಂತೋಷಕರವಾದ ಯೋಚನೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಅವು ತಮ್ಮಿಂದ ತಾವೇ ಮರುಕಳಿಸುತ್ತಿರುತ್ತದೆ. ಅವು ನಮ್ಮ ಕೆಲಸಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಕನಸುಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಮತ್ತು ನಮ್ಮ ವಿಶ್ರಾಂತಿಯಲ್ಲಿಯೂ ಸಹ ಇರುತ್ತದೆ. ಸೌಂದರ್ಯ ಎನ್ನುವುದು ಬರಿಯ ಬಾಹ್ಯರೂಪದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾತ್ರವಲ್ಲ. ಅದು ನಮ್ಮ ಅಂತರಾತ್ಮದಲ್ಲಿಯೂ ಇರುತ್ತದೆ. ಸೌಂದರ್ಯವು ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಅಥವಾ ವಸ್ತುವಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಇರುವುದಿಲ್ಲ ನೋಡುವವರ ದೃಷ್ಟಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಇರುತ್ತದೆ. ಸೌಂದರ್ಯವೇ ದೇವರು ದೇವರೇ ಸೌಂದರ್ಯ.
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