Explanation Of lines from Poetry for English Class -12 | Bihar Board Exam

Explain the following lines from Poetry : Class 12 BSEB || By Amar Sir

1. Oh! How feeble is man’s power

That if good fortune fall

Cannot add another hour,

Nor a lost hour recall

Present lines have been taken from “sweetest love I do not goe”. It has been written by John Donne. He is known as a metaphysical poet. He was a great poet of 16th century.

In these lines the poet is talking to his wife when he leaves the house for the journey. He says that man’s power is very weak. He cannot repair his bad luck. He can neither add nor racall his spent time with his wife.

2. And when you think he is half

asleep, He is wide awake

Present lines have been taken from the poem “Macavity-The mystery cat”. This peom has been written by a great poet T.S. Eliot of 20th century. In these lines the poet is talking about his cat named Macavity. He is a devil in the shape of cat. He says that when someone thinks he is sleeping but he is not sleeping he is wide awaken.

3. Macavity, Macavity, there is no like

Macavity For he is fiend in feline

shape, A monster of depravity.

Present lines have been taken from the poem “Macavity-The mystery cat”. This peom has been written by a great poet T.S. Eliot of 20th century. In these lines the poet is talking about his cat named Macavity. He is a cat. He says that there is no any cat like Macavity. He is a devil in the shape of a cat. He has long and thin body shape. He looks like a devil. lasses for

4. Now the leaves are falling fast,

Nurse’s flower will not last

Nurses to the graves are gone,

And prams go rolling on

Present lines have been taken from the poem “Now the leaves are falling fast” It has been written by a modern poet W.H.Auden. He was a great poet of 20th century. In these lines the poet says that man’s life is going very fast to death. His protector will not present. His well-wisher has gone to the grave. And the time of man’s life is running very fast to his death.

5. Season of mist and mellow

fruitfulness, close blossom of the maturing sun

Present lines have been taken from the poem “Ode to autumn”. This poem has been composed by John Keats. It is a nature poem and the poet is the great friend of nature. In the present lines he says that season of mist and ripens fruits is the close friend of the sun. It helps to the fruits to grow and the juice in them.

6. And think this heart. All evil shed

away, A pulse in eternal min, no less

gives somewhere back the thoughts

of England given

Present lines have been taken from the poem “The Soldier”. This poem is written by Rupert Brooke. It is a patriotic poem. In these lines the poet describes the evils of the heart which becomes the cause of war. He wants to remove all the evils from his heart. He wants to give gratitude to his country for everything he gets from his country.

7. That thou lov’st mee, as thou say’st,

If in thine my life then waste Then art

the best of me

The present lines have been taken from the poem “The sweetest love that I do not goe”. This poem has been written by a great metaphysical poet John Donne of 16th century. In these lines the poet describes his feeling of separation from his beloved. He says to his beloved that he loves her very much. If his beloved cries and gets worries for him, he could not live in happy mood. In this way his beloved waste his life. So he wants to live in joy mood.

8. I think she was the most beautiful lady,

That ever was in west country