Understand the poem
1.) Whose voice is it in the poem?
Answer: A blind boy’s voice is n the poem.
2.) ‘The blessings of the sight’ – line 3. Can you list out a few of them?
Answer: There are uncountable blessings of the sight. Those who have sight can see the sun shining brightly, the beautiful nature, the loved ones. In short, those who have sight are blessed to see the beautiful world around them.
3.) How does a blind person understand whether it is day or night?
Answer: When the blind person is awake, it is day and whenever he is asleep it is night for him.
4.) Read lines 13 and 14. Who is sympathizing with whom?
Answer: The readers are sympathizing with the blind boy. They feel bad for him and give high sighs and express their sorrow by saying that he is unlucky.
5.) How does the blind boy pacify himself ? Quote the lines that suggest this.
Answer: Then let not what I cannot have
My cheer of mind destroy :
Whilst thus I sing, I am a king,