Kerala Syllabus Class 6 English: Unit 04 For Half The Sky: Lesson 02 - The Heart of a Woman - Questions and Answers | Activities | Teaching Manual | Teachers Handbook 

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Std 6 English Unit IV For Half The Sky - Lesson 02 The Heart of a Woman - Textual Questions and Answers & Activities
The Heart of a Woman
♦ Answer the following questions.
1. How does ‘the heart of a woman’ fly at the beginning of the poem?
At the start of the poem, the heart of a woman is compared to a lone bird flying softly at dawn. It moves restlessly across life’s towers and valleys, searching for echoes of home. 

2. What is ‘the heart of a woman’ compared to ?
“The Heart of a Woman” is compared to a lone bird.

3. Where does the heart roam? When does it fall back?
The heart roams afar over life’s turrets and vales, searching restlessly for echoes of home. It falls back with the night, returning to an alien cage where dreams of freedom fade.

4. Where does the heart enter in its plight?
In its plight, the heart of a woman enters an alien cage. This image shows how, after dreaming freely like a bird at dawn, the heart is forced back into confinement at night, symbolizing restriction and sorrow.

5. What does the heart try to forget when it is in a cage?
The heart tries to forget that it has dreamed of the stars. This means it tries to push away its hopes and dreams of freedom while trapped in the cage.

6. In the last line, the poet uses the word ‘break’ three times. Why?
The poet repeats the word “break” three times in the last line to show the deep pain and struggle of the heart.

7. What do the ‘sheltering bars’ in the poem mean?
The “sheltering bars” in the poem mean the limits or restrictions that keep the heart trapped, like the bars of a cage. They symbolize the rules, duties, or situations that stop the heart from being free, even though they seem to offer protection.
♦ Activity 1
1. Look at the lines taken from the poem.
 The heart of a woman goes forth with the dawn,
 As a lone bird, soft winging, so restlessly on,
 Afar o’er life’s turrets and vales does it roam
 In the wake of those echoes the heart calls home.
The last words of each line are dawn, on, roam and home.
Here dawn rhymes with on and roam rhymes with home.
• dawn - on 
• roam - home
Now, revisit the second stanza and find out the rhyming pairs.
• .................................
• .................................
Answer:
• night - plight
• stars -  bars

♦ Activity 2
2. Read the following lines from the poem.
The heart of a woman goes forth with the dawn,
As a lone bird, soft winging, so restlessly on,
Here, the heart of a woman is compared to a lone bird. 
Such a comparison is called simile.
A simile is a figure of speech that compares two different things using ‘like’ or ‘as’.
a. Now, read the following lines and find the pairs of words which are compared to each other.
The moon shines bright as clear as glass
Like a silver lantern, lighting up the pass
The stars twinkle last, as diamonds in the sea
As busy as bees fluttering wild and free
Here,
• the moon is compared to glass
• …………………………………………………………..
Answer:
• the moon is compared to glass
• The moon is compared to a silver lantern
• The stars are compared to diamonds
• The stars are compared to busy bees

b. Complete the following sentences using appropriate words.
1. I am as brave as…………………………………
2. I run like ……………………………………………
3. He crawls like ……………………………………
4. She is as strong as ………………………………
Answer:
1. I am as brave as a lion.
2. I run like a deer.
3. He crawls like a baby.
4. She is as strong as an ox.

♦ Activity 3
3. The two stanzas in the poem have two different moods. The first stanza is  hopeful and dreamy and the other stanza is dejected and sorrowful. Let us pick out the words suitable for each from the brackets and write them in the appropriate columns.
(dawn, dreamed of the stars, goes forth, soft winging, alien cage, calls home, falls back, restlessly on, plight, roam, breaks, sheltering bars)

1. Hopeful and Dreamy (Stanza 1) 
• dawn
• goes forth
• soft winging
• restlessly on
• calls home
• roam

2. Dejected and Sorrowful (Stanza 2)
• alien age
• falls back
• dreamed of the stars
• plight
• breaks
• sheltering bars
♦ Activity 4
4. Let us revisit the poem and complete The Poetry Treasure Map (Textbook Page 116). 
1. Title of the poem: The Heart of a Woman
2. Name of the poet: Georgia Douglas Johnson
3. Write some words and phrases you liked:
•  “soft winging”
•  “dreamed of the stars”
•  “alien cage”
•  “breaks, breaks, breaks”

4. Write your favourite line:
“While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.”

5. What picture comes to your mind when you read the first stanza of the poem?
A lonely bird flying across hills and towers at sunrise, searching for a place to belong.

6. What do you think the poem is trying to tell us?
The poem shows how a woman’s heart dreams of freedom and hope but often feels trapped by life’s limits.


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