Beautiful Hands - Question Answers - English 10th

Question Answers from Chapter No 10 “Beautiful Hands” for class 10th, X, Matric Class  (Beautiful Hands - Question Answers - English 10th)

Beautiful Hands - Question Answers - English 10th

Q.1: What do you know about Ellen M.H. Gates? 

Ans: Ellen M. H. Gates was born n Torrington, Connecticut (USA) in 1835  and riled In 1920. She wrote religious poems (hymns) like “The Home of the Soul” and “Eternity”. The collections of her poems were published in 1897 and 1910.(Beautiful Hands - Question Answers - English 10th)

Q.2: What words or phrases tell us that the hands are not pretty ¡n the physical sense?

Ans: The poet uses the words or phrases like ‘neither white nor smaller, ‘fair at all’ and ‘these aged and wrinkled hands’. These words and phrases teft us that the hands arc not pretty in the physical scene.

Beautiful Hands - Question Answers - English 10th

Q.3: Why does the poet praise the hands?

Ans: The poet praises the hands of mothers because they keep working for their children. Although mothers might be tired or sad, they go on working to make their children glad. Their patient hands never take rest.

Q.4: Who does the poet praise in the poem Beautiful Hands? Why does she do so?

Ans: The poet praises  mother in particular and all mothers in general. She appreciates the services rendered by mothers to bring up their children. Mothers bear a lot of hardships for their children. Therefore, they are worthy of our praise, love and respect.

Q.5: What is the message of the poem Beautiful Hands?

Ans; The message of the poem “Beautiful Hands” is that mothers do a lot of work for their children. They take no rest and go on looking after their children patiently. Children should also appreciate mother’s services to them.

Q.6: What does ‘these hands must folded be’ mean?

Ans: The poet is sad to think of mother leaving her. Her mother is now very old. She is soon to die. She will lie in the grave beneath the daisies with her hands folded.

Q.): What rewards for her mother does the poet think of?

Ans: The poet Is fully confident that her mother will go to paradise after death. She will be young again there. The poet says that she will clasp her mother’s hands In the paradise. Mothers will be rewarded for their sacrifice in giving birth and bringing up their children.

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