Class 10 First Flight Poems: Exam Notes
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✅ Poems (First Flight):
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Dust of Snow
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Fire and Ice
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A Tiger in the Zoo
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How to Tell Wild Animals
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The Ball Poem
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Amanda!
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Animals
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The Trees
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Fog
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The Tale of Custard the Dragon
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For Anne Gregory
1️⃣ ❄️ Dust of Snow – Top 20 Points (English) ✅
1️⃣ ✍️ Poet: Robert Frost
2️⃣ ❄️ A small event changes mood
3️⃣ 🐦 Crow shakes snow
4️⃣ 🌲 Snow falls from hemlock tree
5️⃣ 😔 Poet was in sad mood
6️⃣ 🙂 Snow makes him feel better
7️⃣ 🌈 Small moments matter
8️⃣ 🌿 Nature heals
9️⃣ 🐦 Crow symbolizes negativity but helps
🔟 🌲 Hemlock symbolizes poison/sorrow
1️⃣1️⃣ ❄️ Snow symbolizes purity/hope
1️⃣2️⃣ ✨ Mood shift happens instantly
1️⃣3️⃣ 🎯 Central idea: power of nature
1️⃣4️⃣ 🧠 Simple incident = deep meaning
1️⃣5️⃣ 💡 Life lesson: don’t lose hope
1️⃣6️⃣ 🖼️ Strong imagery
1️⃣7️⃣ 📌 Theme: healing & positivity
1️⃣8️⃣ ✅ Short poem, big message
1️⃣9️⃣ 🧡 Bad day becomes good day
2️⃣0️⃣ ⭐ Message: small joys change life
2️⃣ 🔥 Fire and Ice – Top 20 Points (English) ✅
1️⃣ ✍️ Poet: Robert Frost
2️⃣ 🔥 Fire = desire/greed
3️⃣ 🧊 Ice = hatred/coldness
4️⃣ 🌍 World may end by fire or ice
5️⃣ 😠 Desire destroys
6️⃣ 🧊 Hatred also destroys
7️⃣ 🎯 Both are dangerous
8️⃣ 💭 Poem philosophical
9️⃣ 📌 Short but powerful
🔟 🔥 Fire symbolizes passion
1️⃣1️⃣ 🧊 Ice symbolizes indifference
1️⃣2️⃣ ⚖️ Human emotions cause destruction
1️⃣3️⃣ 🌎 Message universal
1️⃣4️⃣ 🧠 Moral: control emotions
1️⃣5️⃣ ✅ Rhyme scheme: abaabc bcb
1️⃣6️⃣ 📌 Theme: end of world
1️⃣7️⃣ 🔥 Desire spreads fast
1️⃣8️⃣ 🧊 Hate freezes relationships
1️⃣9️⃣ ⭐ Poet agrees fire is enough
2️⃣0️⃣ ✅ Lesson: avoid extremes
3️⃣ 🐅 A Tiger in the Zoo – Top 20 Points (English) ✅
1️⃣ ✍️ Poet: Leslie Norris
2️⃣ 🐅 Tiger locked in cage
3️⃣ 😠 Tiger is angry & restless
4️⃣ 🌿 Tiger should be in jungle
5️⃣ 🏙️ Zoo life unnatural
6️⃣ 🧱 Concrete cell = imprisonment
7️⃣ 🔥 Tiger’s strength is trapped
8️⃣ 🌙 Tiger hears jungle sounds in dreams
9️⃣ 👀 Visitors watch him
🔟 😐 Tiger ignores them
1️⃣1️⃣ 🌃 Tiger stares at stars
1️⃣2️⃣ 🎯 Theme: freedom vs captivity
1️⃣3️⃣ 💔 Human cruelty
1️⃣4️⃣ 🐾 Tiger paces in cage
1️⃣5️⃣ 🌲 Jungle = natural home
1️⃣6️⃣ 📌 Message: don’t imprison animals
1️⃣7️⃣ 🧠 Contrast technique used
1️⃣8️⃣ ✨ Strong imagery
1️⃣9️⃣ ✅ Tone: pity & protest
2️⃣0️⃣ ⭐ Moral: respect wildlife
4️⃣ 🐆 How to Tell Wild Animals – Top 20 Points ✅
1️⃣ ✍️ Poet: Carolyn Wells
2️⃣ 😂 Humorous poem
3️⃣ 🦁 Identifying wild animals
4️⃣ 🐆 Leopard: will eat you
5️⃣ 🐅 Tiger: roars and eats you
6️⃣ 🐻 Bear: hugs and kills
7️⃣ 🐍 Hyena laughs
8️⃣ 🐊 Crocodile sheds tears
9️⃣ 🎯 Message: witty warning
🔟 🧠 Uses irony & humour
1️⃣1️⃣ ✅ Rhyme scheme: regular
1️⃣2️⃣ 🐾 Practical but funny
1️⃣3️⃣ 😂 Makes learning enjoyable
1️⃣4️⃣ 🐊 Crocodile = false tears
1️⃣5️⃣ 🐍 Chameleon blends
1️⃣6️⃣ 🌿 Nature features
1️⃣7️⃣ ✨ Light tone
1️⃣8️⃣ 📌 Theme: animals & traits
1️⃣9️⃣ ⭐ Moral: be careful
2️⃣0️⃣ ✅ Fun poem for exams
5️⃣ ⚽ The Ball Poem – Top 20 Points ✅
1️⃣ ✍️ Poet: John Berryman
2️⃣ ⚽ Boy loses his ball
3️⃣ 😢 He feels deep loss
4️⃣ 🧠 Learns about responsibility
5️⃣ 💔 First lesson of loss
6️⃣ 💰 Money can’t replace feelings
7️⃣ 🎯 Theme: growing up
8️⃣ ✨ Loss teaches maturity
9️⃣ 😔 Boy is shaken
🔟 🏖️ Ball goes into water
1️⃣1️⃣ 🌊 Water symbolizes loss
1️⃣2️⃣ 🧍 Boy learns to stand alone
1️⃣3️⃣ 📌 Life gives losses
1️⃣4️⃣ 🧠 Inner understanding develops
1️⃣5️⃣ ✅ Poem emotional
1️⃣6️⃣ ⭐ Message: accept loss
1️⃣7️⃣ 🙏 Learns coping skill
1️⃣8️⃣ 💡 “Epistemology of loss”
1️⃣9️⃣ 🌱 Personal growth
2️⃣0️⃣ ✅ Real learning moment
6️⃣ 👧 Amanda! – Top 20 Points ✅
1️⃣ ✍️ Poet: Robin Klein
2️⃣ 👧 Amanda is a child
3️⃣ 👩 Parent nags continuously
4️⃣ 😣 Amanda feels trapped
5️⃣ 🧠 Escapes into imagination
6️⃣ 🧜 Mermaid dream = freedom
7️⃣ 🏝️ Orphan dream = peace
8️⃣ 👸 Rapunzel dream = escape
9️⃣ 📌 Theme: freedom vs control
🔟 😔 Child feels suffocated
1️⃣1️⃣ 🍫 Chocolate denied
1️⃣2️⃣ 📚 Homework pressure
1️⃣3️⃣ 🧹 Room cleaning pressure
1️⃣4️⃣ 😶 Amanda becomes silent
1️⃣5️⃣ 🎯 Message: give children space
1️⃣6️⃣ ✅ Irony: mother denies nagging
1️⃣7️⃣ 🧠 Poem psychological
1️⃣8️⃣ ✨ Symbolism: dreams
1️⃣9️⃣ ⭐ Need balance in parenting
2️⃣0️⃣ ✅ Love + freedom needed
7️⃣ 🐾 Animals – Top 20 Points ✅
1️⃣ ✍️ Poet: Walt Whitman
2️⃣ 🐾 Animals are calm
3️⃣ 😌 They don’t complain
4️⃣ 💰 No greed in animals
5️⃣ 🙏 No hypocrisy
6️⃣ 🧠 Humans are restless
7️⃣ 😠 Humans guilty
8️⃣ 🤝 Animals live naturally
9️⃣ 🎯 Theme: simplicity of animals
🔟 🧍 Poet admires animals
1️⃣1️⃣ 🧿 Animals don’t show off
1️⃣2️⃣ 🧠 Humans lost values
1️⃣3️⃣ 📌 Message: be simple
1️⃣4️⃣ ✅ Contrast human vs animal
1️⃣5️⃣ 🐾 Nature teaches balance
1️⃣6️⃣ ⭐ No religion/pride
1️⃣7️⃣ 💡 Animals = innocence
1️⃣8️⃣ ✅ Calmness is strength
1️⃣9️⃣ 🌿 Live in harmony
2️⃣0️⃣ ✅ Learn from animals
8️⃣ 🌳 The Trees – Top 20 Points ✅
1️⃣ ✍️ Poet: Adrienne Rich
2️⃣ 🌳 Trees seek freedom
3️⃣ 🏠 Inside trees trapped
4️⃣ 🌲 Move to forest
5️⃣ 🔓 Freedom vs captivity
6️⃣ 🌙 Silent revolution
7️⃣ 🌱 Roots free from cracks
8️⃣ 💪 Branches strain
9️⃣ 🪟 Glass breaks
🔟 🧱 Barriers break
1️⃣1️⃣ 👃 Smell fills room
1️⃣2️⃣ 🤫 Whispers = protest
1️⃣3️⃣ 🌕 Moonlight imagery
1️⃣4️⃣ 🚪 Threshold crossed
1️⃣5️⃣ 🎯 Message: nature cannot be caged
1️⃣6️⃣ ✅ Personification strong
1️⃣7️⃣ ✨ Symbolism: freedom
1️⃣8️⃣ 📌 Theme: human interference
1️⃣9️⃣ ⭐ Nature wins
2️⃣0️⃣ ✅ Powerful message
9️⃣ 🌫️ Fog – Top 20 Points ✅
1️⃣ ✍️ Poet: Carl Sandburg
2️⃣ 🌫️ Fog comes silently
3️⃣ 🐱 Fog = cat (metaphor)
4️⃣ 👣 Little cat feet
5️⃣ 🤫 Quiet movement
6️⃣ 🌁 Covers harbour/city
7️⃣ 🐾 Sits looking
8️⃣ 🐈 Silent haunches
9️⃣ ⏳ Stays briefly
🔟 ➡️ Moves on quietly
1️⃣1️⃣ 🎯 Central idea: silent nature
1️⃣2️⃣ ✨ Strong imagery
1️⃣3️⃣ ✅ Personification
1️⃣4️⃣ 🌙 Calm mood
1️⃣5️⃣ 🧠 Nature’s power
1️⃣6️⃣ 📌 Simple poem
1️⃣7️⃣ ⭐ Change is silent
1️⃣8️⃣ 🌫️ Mystery element
1️⃣9️⃣ ✅ Scoring poem
2️⃣0️⃣ ✅ Life lesson: patience
🔟 🐉 Custard the Dragon – Top 20 Points ✅
1️⃣ ✍️ Poet: Ogden Nash
2️⃣ 🏠 Belinda & pets
3️⃣ 🐶 Mustard claims bravery
4️⃣ 🐱 Ink kitten
5️⃣ 🐭 Blink mouse
6️⃣ 🐉 Custard dragon
7️⃣ 😨 Called coward
8️⃣ 🔒 Wants safe cage
9️⃣ 🏴☠️ Pirate attacks
🔟 😱 Others hide/run
1️⃣1️⃣ 🔥 Custard fights
1️⃣2️⃣ 🍽️ Eats pirate
1️⃣3️⃣ ✅ Real hero
1️⃣4️⃣ 😂 Irony: cowards boast
1️⃣5️⃣ 🎯 Theme: true bravery
1️⃣6️⃣ 📌 Moral: actions not words
1️⃣7️⃣ ✅ Humour + message
1️⃣8️⃣ 🎵 Rhyming poem
1️⃣9️⃣ ⭐ Don’t judge by appearance
2️⃣0️⃣ ✅ Bravery tested in danger
1️⃣1️⃣ 🌼 For Anne Gregory – Top 20 Points ✅
1️⃣ ✍️ Poet: W.B. Yeats
2️⃣ 👧 Anne addressed
3️⃣ 💛 Yellow hair attraction
4️⃣ 🍯 Honey-coloured = golden
5️⃣ 🏰 Ramparts = walls
6️⃣ 😔 Despair of young men
7️⃣ 💇 Love based on looks
8️⃣ 🧠 Not “self alone”
9️⃣ 🎨 Hair dye solution
🔟 ⚫🟤🟠 Brown/black/carrot colour
1️⃣1️⃣ 🗣️ Dialogue poem
1️⃣2️⃣ 🙏 Old religious man
1️⃣3️⃣ 📖 Text proves point
1️⃣4️⃣ 😇 Only God loves truly
1️⃣5️⃣ 💞 Divine love pure
1️⃣6️⃣ 🔥 Human love selfish
1️⃣7️⃣ 🎯 Theme: inner beauty
1️⃣8️⃣ ✅ Repetition: yellow hair
1️⃣9️⃣ ⭐ True love rare
2️⃣0️⃣ ✅ Message: love beyond appearance
