A Thing of Beauty

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NCERT Class 12 English Core Chapter wise Solutions

Flamingo – Prose

• 1: The Last Lesson (Alphonse Daudet)
• 2: Lost Spring (Anees Jung)
• 3: Deep Water (William Douglas)
• 4: The Rattrap (Selma Lagerlof)
• 5: Indigo (Louis Fischer)
• 6: Going Places (A. R. Barton)

Flamingo – Poetry

• 1: My Mother at Sixty – Six (Kamala Das)
• 2: An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum (Stephen Spender)
• 3: Keeping Quiet (Pablo Neruda)
• 4: A Thing of Beauty (John Keats)
• 5: Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers (Adrienne Rich)

Vistas – Supplementary Reader

• 1: The Third Level (Jack Finney)
• 2. The Tiger King (Kalki)
• 3. Journey to the end of the Earth (Tishani Doshi)
• 4. The Enemy Pearl (S. Buck)
• 5. Should Wizard hit Mommy (John Updike)
• 6. On the face of It (Susan Hill)
• 7. Evans Tries an O-level (Colin Dexter)

NCERT Solutions for class 12 English Core Flamingo A Thing of Beauty

1. What pleasure does a beautiful thing give us? Are beautiful things worth treasuring.

Think it Out

1.List the things of beauty mentioned in the poem.

2. List the things that cause suffering and pain.

3. What does the line, ‘Therefore are we wreathing a flowery band to bind us to earth’ suggest to you?

4. What makes human beings love life in spite of troubles and sufferings?

5. Why is ‘grandeur’ associated with the ‘mighty dead’?

6. Do we experience things of beauty only for short moments or do they make a lasting impression on us?

7. What image does the poet use to describe the beautiful bounty of the earth?