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Karnataka State Board Class 5 English Poem Chapter 6 The Patriot
The Patriot Questions and Answers, Summary, Notes
Comprehension:
Question 1.
What are the characteristic features of a patriot?
Answer:
A patriot is a man who loves his native land. His heart bums for his motherland, even if has been wandering all over the world.
Question 2.
What characterizes a person who is not patriotic?
Answer:
The poet compares a person who is not patriotic to a man whose soul is dead. An unpatriotic person has never said to himself that “This is my own; my native land”. His heart has never burned within him while he is returning back to his homeland after wandering all over the world.
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Question 3.
“For him no minstrel raptures swell”
a) Who does the word ‘him’ refer to?
Answer:
The word ‘him’ refers to the person who is not patriot.
b) Why is the poet unhappy with such a person?
Answer:
The poet is unhappy with person who is not patriot because, despite his titles, power and wealth, an unpatriotic person is selfish and never thinks about his motherland. Such a person will never become famous despite his wealth. He will lead a worthless life and die, unwept, unhonour’d and unsung.
c) Explain “no minstrel raptures swell”
Answer:
A poet can’t sing or praise a person who is not concerned towards his country or motherland.
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Question 4.
______ shall go down
_____________________”
_____________unsung”.
Why does the poet say, he shall go down?
Answer:
The person may have high rank of his title and he may have plenty of wealth but all will go to the vile dust.
Question 5.
Make a list of rhyming words in the poem
Answer:
a) bum’d – turn’d
b) well – swell
dead – said
pelf – self
renown – down
sprung – unsung
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Question 6.
Which line is the poem, do you like most? Why?
Answer:
The first line of the poem ‘Breathes there the man with soul so dead who never to himself hath said, ‘ This is my own, my native land’ In this fine, a person who has not told himself “ tills is my own, my native land” He is like a dead person.
Question 7.
Who, according to you, is a patriot?
Answer:
A patriot is the one who does something for the nation and is ready to die for the nation.
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The Patriot Summary In English

The poem ‘patriotism’ is written by Sir Walter Scott. The poet describes the plight of a person who does not possess any love or patriotic feelings towards his motherland. The person who does not have patriotism is like a dead man. Though he has got high titles and proud of his name, boundless his wealth but everything is in vain, if he has no patriotism.
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The Patriot Summary In Kannada


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