Hi Everyone!! This article will share Keep a Poem in Your Pocket Questions & Answers.
This poem is written by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers. In my previous posts, I have shared the questions & answers of Fire in the Stables, The Land of Nod and Owls in the Family so, you can check these posts as well.
Keep a Poem in Your Pocket Questions & Answers
Question 1: Choose the correct option:
1. You’ll never feel lonely if you keep in your pocket______
(a) a book.
(b) a poem.
(c) a story.
2. The little poem will ______
(a) read to you.
(b) play with you.
(c) sing to you.
Question 2: What does the speaker ask you to keep in your head in the first stanza?
Answer: The speaker asks us to keep a picture in our head in the first stanza.
Question 3: When do we feel lonely?
Answer: We feel lonely at night.
Question 4: Who will bring dreams to you?
Answer: The little picture will bring dreams to us.
Question 5: Read the lines and answer the questions:
“And you’ll never feel lonely
At night when you’re in bed.”
(a) Who said these lines?
Answer: The poet said these lines.
(b) How will you never feel lonely at night?
Answer: We will never feel lonely at night if we read poems and remember the beautiful things around us.
Question 6: Read the lines and answer the questions:
“And the little picture bring to you
A dozen dreams to dance to you.”
(a) When do we dream?
Answer: We dream when we are asleep.
(b) How can a picture bring dreams to us?
Answer: A picture brings dream to us because often we dream of the things that we see during the day.
Question 7: How could we keep a poem in our pocket or head?
Answer: We can write a poem and keep it in our pocket to read until we are able to memorise and keep it in our head.
Question 8: What is the difference in the first two lines of the first stanza and the last stanza?
Answer: The first two lines of the first stanza tell us to keep a poem in our pocket and a picture in our head so that we can keep reading the poem and picturize it till we can memorise it. Once we have memorized the poem, the poem is in our head. We can keep a picture related to it in our pocket to remind us of the poem.
So, these were the Questions & Answers.