Meeting Poets Poem 8 Summary and Question Answers

The Poem “Meeting Poets” is Poem 8 taken from Tulip Series English for students of Class 8 of JKBOSE Board for students of Jammu and Kashmir. The poem Meeting Poets has been written by an Indian poetess Eunice de Souza.

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Meeting Poets Poem 8 Summary and Question Answers

Introduction

In the poem “Meeting Poets” the poet encourages the readers to pass judgment on the poets by their poetry rather than by their appearances. Judging one thing regarding another is not right. The physical appearance of poets can mislead us about them. They make look shabby or behave in an unfamiliar manner but their poems can be great works of art. The poem presents confusion created in the minds of readers by reading the works of the poets regarding their profiles or personalities.

Poem 8 Meeting Poets (By Eunice de Souza)

Meeting poets, I am disconcerted sometimes:
By the colour of their socks,
The suspicion of a wig,
The wasp in the voice,
And an air, sometimes of dankness.

Best to meet in poems:
Cool speckled shells
In which one hears
A sad but distant sea.

Poem 8 Meeting Poets Words Meanings

Summary of Poem Meeting Poets in English

The poem ‘Meeting Poets’ has been written by an Indian poetess Eunice de Souza. In this poem, she tells us not to judge one thing regarding another. She particularly talks about poets. She says that we should not judge poets by their appearances but by their poetry.

According to the poetess (poets) are very complex people. They look shabby and behave strangely. They hardly care about their dress and personality. The colour of their socks and the way they wear a wig are quite awkward. They use bitter and harsh voices in their speech. The manner and appearance of poets are unpleasant but their poems are beautiful pieces of art.

In the last lines of the poem, the poet advises that we must judge the writers by their works of art because their poetry always appears beautiful. Poetry is different from the appearance of the poets and distant from them like the sea shells from the sea but one could hear the sea in the same shells.

Summary of Poem Meeting Poets in Hindi

कविता ‘मीटिंग पोएट्स’ एक भारतीय कवयित्री यूनिस डी सूजा द्वारा लिखी गई है। इस कविता में वह हमें बताती है कि एक चीज को दूसरे के संदर्भ में मत आंकिए। वह विशेष रूप से कवियों के बारे में बात करती है। वह कहती हैं कि हमें कवियों को उनके रूप-रंग से नहीं बल्कि उनकी कविता से आंकना चाहिए कवयित्री के अनुसार (कवि) बहुत जटिल लोग हैं। वे जर्जर दिखते हैं और अजीब व्यवहार करते हैं।

वे शायद ही अपनी पोशाक और व्यक्तित्व की परवाह करते हैं। उनके मोजे का रंग और विग पहनने का तरीका काफी अजीब है। वे अपने भाषण में कड़वी और कठोर आवाज का प्रयोग करते हैं। कवियों का ढंग और रूप अप्रिय है, लेकिन उनकी कविताएँ कला की सुंदर कृतियाँ हैं।

कविता की अंतिम पंक्तियों में कवि सलाह देता है कि हमें लेखकों को उनकी कला के कार्यों से आंकना चाहिए क्योंकि उनकी कविता हमेशा सुंदर दिखाई देती है। काव्य कवियों के रूप से भिन्न है और समुद्र से समुद्र के धब्बेदार खोल की तरह उनसे दूर है, लेकिन उसी धब्बेदार खोल में समुद्र को सुना जा सकता है।

Theme or Central Idea of Poem Meeting Poets

The poetess Eunice de Souza emphasizes the idea that we should not judge one thing with reference to another. In this poem poet talks particularly about poets, they may look shabby and behave strangely but their poems are great works of art.

Rhyme Scheme of Poem Meeting Poets

The Poem Meeting Poets is written in freestyle verse. It has 2 stanzas having 9 lines in total. There is no fixed rhyme scheme in the poem.

Thinking About the Poem

Language Work

When a word is used in a denotative sense its literal meaning is intended. When a word is used in the connotative sense, it suggests a feeling or idea that is not necessarily a part of the word’s meaning. In the poem, the word wasp has been used in the connotative sense, to suggest bitterness in the voice while its denotative meaning is a stinging insect.

Now write the connotative as well as the denotative meaning of the following words from the poem (one is done for you)

Words	Denotative Meaning	Connotative Meaning
Colour
Suspicion
Dankness
Cool
Speckled
Distant

Ans.

Words	Denotative Meaning	Connotative Meaning
Colour	Appearance	Disorderliness, shabbiness
Suspicion	Doubt	Hint
Dankness	Dampness	Unpleasantness
Cool	Cold	Calm
Speckled	Marked with spots	Stained
Distant	Far away	Unexpected or Unknown

Let’s Write

1. You must have read about the life and poetry of various poets. Choose your favourite poet and write about his life and poetry in about 150 – 200 words.

English literature has many great writers and poets. They have greatly contributed to the richness of literature. There are many great poets like Robert Frost, William Shakespeare, Rabindranath Tagore, P.B. Shelly, and John Milton, but my favourite poet is William Wordsworth because he is an admirer of mother nature. He glorifies nature as the first mother of the child through his poem ‘Lucy’. His poems Daffodils and Solitary Reaper have left an indelible impression in my mind.

He was born on 7th April 1770 in England. He always emphasised writing about nature, children, and common people. He always used expressive and simple language so that his poetry could reach the common masses. He was an emotional poet who expressed emotions lying deep in the core of his heart through his beautiful poetry. He died on 23rd April 1850.

2. Write a personality profile of any local poet or writer you know.

Lal Ded was a famous 14th-century Kashmiri saint and mystic poet. Lal Ded (Mother Lalla), was also known as Lalla or Lalleshwari, Lal Arifa. She was married at the age of 12 into a family where she was regularly abused. Due to this he left the family and became a disciple of Sidh Srikanth, she renounced her material life and marriage to become a devotee of the god Shiva. She was famous for her poetry named Vaakhs or Lal Vaakhs.

 Her poetry has been translated widely, including English translations by Jane Hirshfield in Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women (1994), Coleman Barks in Naked Song: Lalla (1992), and K.C.I.E. Sir George Grierson in Lalla-Vakyani or The Wise Sayings of Lal-Ded, A Mystic Poetess of Ancient Kashmir (1920).

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