NCERT Solutions Class 6 English (Honeysuckle)
The NCERT Solutions in English Language for Class 6 English (Poetry) (Honeysuckle) Chapter – 2 The Kite has been provided here to help the students in solving the questions from this exercise.
Poem – 2
(The Kite)
How bright on the blue
Is a kite when it’s new!
With a dive and a dip
It snaps its tail
Then soars like a ship
With only a sail
As over tides
Of wind it rides,
Climbs to the crest
Of a gust and pulls,
Then seems to rest
As wind falls.
When string goes slack
You wind it back
And run until
A new breeze blows
And its wings fill
And up it goes!
How bright on the blue
Is a kite when it’s new!
But a raggeder thing
You never will see
When it flaps on a string
In the top of a tree.
– HARRY BEHN
Working with the Poem
1. List out the action words in the poem.
dive, dip, snaps, ______, ______, ______, ______, ______
Find out the meanings of these words.
Answer –
Dive – to enter into water intentionally, especially with the headfirst
Dip – to enter into water momentarily
Snaps – to make a sharp or crackling sound
Soars – to fly aloft
Rides – to sit and travel on the back of an animal
Flaps – to toss sharply
Pulls – to exert force upon to cause or tend to cause motion toward the force
2. Read these lines from the poem:
Then soars like a ship
With only a sail
The movement of the tailless kite is compared to a ship with a sail. This is called a simile. Can you suggest what or who the following actions may be compared to?
He runs like __________________
He eats like __________________
She sings like __________________
It shines like __________________
It flies like __________________
Answer –
He runs like a deer.
He eats like a horse.
She sings like a nightingale.
It shines like a glowworm.
It flies like a kite.
3. Try to make a kite with your friends. Collect the things required such as color paper/newspaper, thread, glue, a thin stick that can be bent. After making the kite see if you can fly it.
Answer – This question requires the students to use their creative imagination in creating hand-made kites.
A specific paper i.e. the kite paper along with the basic adhesive glue, a thin but strong stick in order to provide stability to the kite can be used to make bright and colourful kites.
NOTE – This is a fun activity. Students can freely make their choice of kites using various materials.
Poem
- Poem 1 : A House, A Home
- Poem 3 : The Quarrel
- Poem 4 : Beauty
- Poem 5 : Where Do All the Teachers Go?
- Poem 6 : The Wonderful Words
- Poem 7 : Vocation
- Poem 8 : What if
