Bihar Board Class 9Th English chapter 5 Sound Solutions | Bseb class 9Th Chapter 5 Sound Notes

Ans.— “Yes, the touching account of a tree which has been cut down, how it is hacked, how its branches are broken away and more importantly how the halves. felt in the heart of their hearts. The use of expressions such as ‘moan’, ‘groan’, reminisce’ and ‘remember’ give human touch to the poem and bring out the pathos of the felled trees. I also think that this is a sad poem.

Ans.— The tree has touched the sensitivity of the poet and he goes on thinking of their emotional state. He wonders what the halves whisper to each other. He wonders if they reminisce. In fact, it is the poet who reminisces and feels sorry for the felled tree. Once I had to go away from my family for over a month. I missed my grandmother very much. There was hardly a day when I did not reminisce about her.

Ans.— The wind knows how it tossed the tree which has Ans been hacked into halves. It also knows how the halves of the tree got drenched in the rain, how they blossomed in the spring and experienced fall in the autumn. However, the songs of the wind do not have any script; they are merely sounds and so incomprehensible to majority of men.

Ans.— Plants have life. They can feel and so they can suffer as well. The hacked trees suffer a lot. But man’s blunted sensitivity does not allow him to perceive their agonies, Even the wind’s song that catches upon the suffering of the felled trees do not make much impact on man. They fall flat on him as mere sounds. Hence, the title ‘sound’ very subtly but aptly conveys the feeling of the poem.

Ans.— The great Indian scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose has already proved that plants are living things. They too can feel. Hence, we can say that trees have souls. The facts that a plant grows, blossoms and withers away in due course and feel the effect of the change in seasons very clearly suggest that plants are very similar to human beings.