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Sundays
Rabindranath Tagore
About Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore who was born in 1861 in Calcutta, started writing poems at the age of eight and had his first book published at sixteen! He excelled as a writer, painter and also a singer apart from many other things like starting an open-air school at Shantiniketan which today is a well-known university, Visva Bharti. Tagore wrote the Geetanjali for which he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. The national anthem that we sing with such patriotic feelings was written by him.
The weekdays come so fast and thick
How do they travel to reach so quick?
But why does Sunday take so long
Behind the others trudging on?
The weekdays are an unkind lot:
To go back home they have no thought.
But why is Sunday so pursued
That she stays half the time she should?
The weekdays come with such dull, long faces,
No child can stand such airs and graces.
But when at weekends I get up,
There's Sunday with her face lit up.
Available Answers
- 1.
Read the poem and note down the rhyming pair words.
- 2.
Read the poem carefully and note down the two lines which tell us that the poet does not like weekdays.
- 3.
Read the poem carefully and note down the line which tells us that the poets likes Sundays.
- 4.
Replace quick, unkind, stand and weekend with other words having the same meaning.
- 5.
'How do they travel to reach so quick'?
- Who is 'they'? How many of them are 'they'?
- Explain the above line your own words.
- Does the like 'them'?
- 6.
'But why does Sunday take so long ......'
- Why does Sunday not travel like the weekdays?
- What kind of week would the poet like to have?
- Which two adjectives does the poet use to describe the weekdays?
4 more answer(s) available.