An Ode
A poem whose whole business is praise.
A lyrical poem expressing deep admiration, praise or reverence, in an elevated and formal style.
↳ An ode selects what can be admired; it does not weigh good against bad.
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Bharat Our Land · Class 9 English · Kaveri
English 3 topics 135 leveled MCQs 60 flashcards 4 games Free
Shared by a Veda teacher · Generated with Veda AI · Oct 2026
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Stanza One
Four possessions, one move repeated.
↳ Mountain, river, scripture, soil — physical to spiritual, then gathered up.
Stanza Two
From places to the people on them.
↳ Bravery and wisdom set side by side, and treated as equals.
Personification
One choice licenses the whole poem.
Giving human qualities or a human identity to what is not a person. The country is she and her throughout.
↳ Once the land is a woman, the poem can pay compliments instead of taking measurements.
Metaphor
It says is, not like.
The sunny golden land is not compared to gold — it is identified with it: warmth, richness, glory.
↳ The difference is not decoration; it is the strength of the claim.
Hyperbole
Nobody weighs the bag.
Extreme exaggeration used to make a point or create a dramatic effect — never meant literally.
↳ Not an error of fact — the poem raising its voice.
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What you'll study, topic by topic
1
The Poem, Stanza by Stanza
Three short stanzas in which a poet claims a mountain, a river, a body of scripture and a whole country, and then claims the people, the music and the philosophy that belong to it. This topic goes through what each stanz…
- The poem is by Subramania Bharati, the Tamil poet, and reaches the reader in translation, which is why the extract carries no regular rhyme…
- Stanza one claims four things in the same shape: the Himavant, the Ganga, the Upanishads and the land itself, each followed by an assertion…
- Two of those four assertions are put as questions, and neither expects an answer.
~26 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
2
How the Poem Works
The same three stanzas, looked at as a piece of making rather than a piece of saying. Personification, metaphor, hyperbole, imagery and allusion; what each named thing stands for; why the lines break where they do; and h…
- Personification runs through the whole poem: the land is addressed as she and her, and the river is given a human virtue.
- The land is called a sunny golden land — a metaphor, saying the country is warmth, richness and glory rather than merely comparing it to the…
- Hyperbole is extreme exaggeration for effect, not meant literally, and the claim that nothing on earth equals the Himavant is exactly that.
~28 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
3
The Language and Skills Work of This Poem
The unit asks you to notice how four of the poem's own words are built, to build four more of your own, to listen to four travellers and work out which landscape each really prefers, to praise your own town in the poem's…
- A suffix is attached to the end of a word and changes its meaning, its part of speech, or both.
- The poem supplies four: -ous meaning full of or having the qualities of, -ity meaning the state of being, -est marking the superlative, and…
- In peerless the -less is praise rather than a lack, because a peer is an equal and having none is the poem's highest compliment.
~28 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
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135 questions laddered from warm-up to topper-level, each with an explanation. A taste:
A student says the poem offers a balanced account of the country, weighing its strengths against its problems. Why is that a misreading of the form?
Intermediate
A An ode must always be written in the first person singular
B An ode exists to praise, and selects only what can be admired
C An ode is required to end with a question rather than a statement
D An ode cannot take a country as its subject at all
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An ode exists to praise, and selects only what can be admired
Nothing in the extract is offered as a weakness; that is deliberate, not an oversight.
Why does the printed extract carry no regular rhyme scheme?
Intermediate
A The poet deliberately avoided rhyme in all of his writing
B What the lesson prints is an English translation of a Tamil original
C Odes by convention are never written in rhyme
D The extract has been shortened, and the rhyming lines were cut
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What the lesson prints is an English translation of a Tamil original
Rhyme rarely survives being carried from one language into another.
The four claims of the opening stanza follow an identical pattern. What is that pattern?
Intermediate
A Something is named as ours, and then nothing anywhere is said to match it
B A question is asked, and then answered in the following line
C A place is described, and then its history is given
D A doubt is raised, and then set aside by the poet
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Something is named as ours, and then nothing anywhere is said to match it
The repetition is what gives the stanza its chant-like rhythm.
Consider these statements about the opening stanza. 1. It names a mountain range, a river, a body of scripture and the land itself. 2. Two of its four assertions are framed as questions. 3. It ends with the line that later returns as a refrain. Which of the statements are correct?
Advanced
A 1, 2 and 3
B 1 and 2 only
C 2 and 3 only
D 1 and 3 only
Show answer & explanation
1, 2 and 3
All three describe the stanza accurately.
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