Match the lines with the titles of the poems :
I. The boa-constrictor’s coil/ Is a fossil A. "Thrushes"
II. My manners are tearing off heads / The allotment of death B. "The Jaguar"
III. More coiled steel than living C. "Relic"
IV. Time in the sea eats its tail D. "Hawk Roosting"
| I | II | III | IV |
| B | D | A | C |
Poem Lines and Titles Matching
This question requires matching lines from poems with their corresponding titles. The correct matches, as indicated by the provided correct answer, are established as follows:
- I. "The boa-constrictor’s coil / Is a fossil" is matched with B. "The Jaguar". This interpretation links the 'coil' imagery to the jaguar's potent form and 'fossil' to its primal, enduring nature.
- II. "My manners are tearing off heads / The allotment of death" is matched with D. "Hawk Roosting". This strongly aligns with the poem's perspective, which justifies the hawk's violent predatory actions.
- III. "More coiled steel than living" is matched with A. "Thrushes". This connection suggests the poem might portray nature's cycles or creatures with intense, almost mechanical-like energy or tension.
- IV. "Time in the sea eats its tail" is matched with C. "Relic". This implies a thematic link between the poem's line about time and cycles, and the concept of ancientness represented by a relic.
The final confirmed matching is:
| I | II | III | IV |
| B | D | A | C |
This corresponds to Option B.
Important Questions from Literature
Match List-I with List-II:
List-I List-II (A) Meghe Dhaka Tara (I) Govind Nihalani (B) Garam Hawa (II) Habib Tanvir (C) Tamas (III) Ritvik Ghatak (D) Jis Lahore Nahin Vekhya O Jamya-e-nai (IV) M.S. Sathyu Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Which of the following statements are correct?
(A) Mahabharata has over 1,00,000 verses.
(B) Mahabharata was written by Valmiki.
(C) V.S. Sukthankar is associated with the critical edition of Mahabharata.
(D) The critical edition of Mahabharata took 47 years to complete.
(E) The critical edition of Mahabharata ran into over 13,000 pages.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
Who wrote the essay "Naipaul's India and Mine" (1984) as a reply to V.S. Naipaul's An Area of Darkness ?
Identify the one that has not been paired correctly.
Which of the following Articles of the Indian Constitution made the provision for use of English, alongside Hindi, for official purposes, for fifteen years?
