NCERT Solutions for Class 12 English Kaleidoscope Poetry Chapter 6 The Wild Swan of Coole

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NCERT Solutions for Class 12 Kaleidoscope Poetry Chapter 6 The Wild Swan of Coole are provided in this article with the download link. This poem is written by the Nobel laureate poet W.B.Yeats. In this poem he describes the swans he had seen while visiting Coole Park in Ireland with an undertone of melancholy and regret. W.B. Yeats is considered as the greatest playwright and poet of the early 20th century.

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The Wild Swan of Coole Summary

This poem includes five stanzas with thirty lines in total. In this poem W.B. Yeats used imagery in a unique way. 

  • The poet begins with the description of an October evening when he visited Coole Lake in Ireland. 
  • In the next segment, Yeats remembers how he had seen swans nineteen years ago and how he was young and fit in those days.
  • In the next stanza the poet goes on discussing how he envies the young hearts of those swans.
  • The poem ends with a note of melancholy as the poet wonders about where the swans will build their nest in the future when one day he wakes up to discover the swans have flown away.

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CBSE CLASS XII Related Questions

  • 1.
    Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
    What needs my Shakespear for his honour’d Bones,
    The labour of an age in piled Stones,
    Or that his hallow’d reliques should be hid
    Under a Star-ypointing Pyramid?
    Dear son of memory, great heir of Fame,
    What need’st thou such weak witness of thy name?
    Thou in our wonder and astonishment
    Hast built thy self a live-long Monument.
    (On Shakespear. 1630)


      • 2.
        In the poem 'A Lecture Upon the Shadow', what does the metaphor 'shadow' represent?


          • 3.
            Read the following poem ‘The Rain’ by Kamala Das :
            We left that old ungainly house
            When my dog died there, after
            The burial, after the rose
            Flowered twice, pulling it by its
            Roots and carting it with our books,
            Clothes and chairs in a hurry.
            We live in a new house now,
            And, the roofs do not leak, but, when
            It rains here, I see the rain drench
            That empty house, I hear it fall
            Where my puppy now lies.
            Alone..
            Based on your understanding of the poem, answer the questions given below:


              • 4.
                Why did the long-tailed, black-faced langur advise the tiger to take great care to avoid going near a porcupine?


                  • 5.
                    What was the jungle superstition about how the tiger came to have the stripes and whom did he blame for it? Why did the tiger feel helpless in tackling the situation?


                      • 6.
                        Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:
                        Pity would be no more
                        If we did not make somebody Poor;
                        And Mercy no more could be
                        If all were as happy as we.
                        And mutual fear brings peace,
                        Till the selfish loves increase:
                        Then Cruelty knits a snare,
                        And spreads his baits with care.
                        He sits down with holy fears,
                        And waters the ground with tears;
                        Then Humility takes its root
                        Underneath his foot.
                        (The Human Abstract)

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