For Anne Gregory
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NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English Chapter wise Solutions
Footprints
- 1 A Triumph of Surgery
- 2 The Thiefs Story
- 3 The Midnight Visitor
- 4 A Question of Trust
- 5 Footprints without Feet
- 6 The Making of a Scientist
- 7 The Necklace
- 8 The Hack Driver
- 9 Bholi
- 10 The Book That Saved the Earth
First Flight
- 1 A Letter to God
- 2 Long Walk to Freedom
- 3 Two Stories about Flying
- 4 From the Diary of Anne Frank
- 5 The Hundred Dresses I
- 6 The Hundred Dresses II
- 7 Glimpses of India
- 8 Mijbil the Otter
- 9 Madam Rides the Bus
- 10 The Sermon at Benares
- 11 The Proposal
First Flight (Poem)
- 1 Dust of snow
- 2 Fire and Ice
- 3 A Tiger in the Zoo
- 4 How to Tell Wild Animals
- 5 The Ball Poem
- 6 Amanda
- 7 Animals
- 8 The Trees
- 9 Fog
- 10 The Tale of Custard the Dragon
- 11 For Anne Gregory
NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English For Anne Gregory
1. What does the young man mean by “great honey-coloured/Ramparts at your ear?” Why does he say that young men are “thrown into despair” by them?
Ans: The “great honey-coloured/Ramparts at your ear” refers to the beautiful yellow coloured hair that falls at the woman’s ear and cover it like a wall around a fort. He says that the young men are “thrown into despair” by them because they look so beautiful on the woman that her beauty gets thoroughly enhanced. The young men fall in love with her and feel despair. He says that it is not possible that someone would love her alone and not her yellow hair.
NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English For Anne Gregory
2. What colour is the young woman’s hair? What does she say she can change it to? Why would she want to do so?
Ans: The young woman’s hair is of yellow colour. She says that she could get her hair dyed to brown, black or carrot colour. She would change the colour of her hair so that the young men in despair would love her only and not her yellow hair. She wanted them to love her for what she was and not for her appearance such as her hair colour.