PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT AND CHARACTER BUILDING BOOK for third year Author By Dr. Neha Mathur
Chapter - 1- POEM: THE EXPRESS BY Stephen Spender
COMPLETE POEM : THE EXPRESS by STEPHEN SPENDER
Stenza 1: Lines 1-7
After the first powerful plain manifesto
The black statement of pistons, without more fuss
But gliding like a queen, she leaves the station.
Without bowing and with restrained unconcern
She passes the houses which humbly crowd outside,
The gasworks and at last the heavy page
Of death, printed by gravestones in the cemetery.
Stenza 2: Lines 8-14
Beyond the town there lies the open country
Where, gathering speed, she acquires mystery,
The luminous self-possession of ships on ocean.
It is now she begins to sing at first quite low
Then loud, and at last with a jazzy madness
The song of her whistle screaming at curves,
Of deafening tunnels, brakes, innumerable bolts.
Stenza 3: Lines 15-20
And always light, aerial, underneath
Goes the elate metre of her wheels.
Steaming through metal landscape on her lines
She plunges new eras of wild happiness
Where speed throws up strange shapes, broad curves
And parallels clean like the steel of guns.
Stenza 4: Lines 21-27
At last, further than Edinburgh or Rome,
Beyond the crest of the world, she reaches night
Where only a low streamline brightness
Of phosphorus on the tossing hills is white.
Ah, like a comet through flame, she moves entranced
Wrapt in her music no bird song, no, nor bough
Breaking with honey buds, shall ever equal
HINDI MEANING
MCQs on this Poem
QUE- Who is the author this poem "THE EXPRESS"?
Answer :Stephen Spender
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QUE- When was Stephen Spender born?
Answer :28 February, 1909
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QUE- When was Stephen Spender die?
Answer : 16 July 1995
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QUE- Stephen Spender belongs to which country?
Answer :England
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QUE- What is "Plain Manifesto" in this poem?
Answer :Sound of the whistle.
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QUE- What is the black statement of pistons?
Answer :Smooth movement of the pistons without noise.
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QUE- The glide of the train is compared with:
Answer :walk of the queen.
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QUE- In which year, this poem is published?
Answer :1966
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QUE- The expression " " indicates:
Answer :D
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QUE- According to the poet, "Plain Manifesto" is:
Answer : Sound of the whistle.
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QUE- According to the poet, the black statement of pistons is:
Answer : movement of the pistons without noise
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QUE- The glide of the train is compared to:
Answer : walk of a queen
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QUE- When the train passes through houses, they appear:
Answer : modest
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QUE- The heavy page of death is:
Answer : cemetery
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QUE- The train gain speed at:
Answer : open countryside
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QUE- When the train gains speed, She looks like a:
Answer : ship on the ocean
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QUE- The train whistles at:
Answer : each curve
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QUE- At night, the train reaches upto:
Answer : a very high place on the mountain
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QUE- When the train reaches a tunnel, She creates a:
Answer : deafening noise due to brakes, bolts and machinery
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QUE- when the train reaches a mountainous place with burning phosphorus, She apears like a:
Answer : comet moving through flames
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QUE- when the train reaches the open countryside, She sings:
Answer : first slowly, then loudly and then madly like jazz music
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QUE- What is the elate metre of her wheels?
Answer : It is a music created by rhythmic movements of wheels.
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QUE- The strange shapes are created by:
Answer : steam and smoke
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QUE- The broad curves and parallels are:
Answer : shapes at railway track
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QUE- The expression "powerful plain manifesto " refers to:
Answer : The political statement for preceding new program
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QUE- The expressiobornhumbled crowed" refers to:
Answer : Awe and most wonder
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QUE- At which place the poet stephen was born?
Answer : Kingston town
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QUE- What was the name of spender's mother?
Answer : Violet hilda Schuster
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QUE- Who was stephen spender?
Answer : Traveller,Author and Poet
Explanation :All kind of writing quality he have. -
QUE- The voice of the poem appears to be a
Answer : Sweet
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QUE- The poem begins by describing the moment the express train
Answer : Leaves the station
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QUE- The Express poem depicts the movement of ....
Answer : Express Train
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QUE- Stephen uses the simile to described the train
Answer : Like a Queen
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QUE- The Express explores the effect of ...... on rural environment.
Answer : Technology
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QUE- What is the name of Spender's father?
Answer :Harold Spender
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QUE-Stephen Spender belong to which country?
Answer : England
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QUE- What is the primary subject of the poem?
Answer : A Train
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QUE-How does the train leaves the station?
Answer : quietly and smoothly
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QUE-How does the train make sound of whistle?
Answer : Loud and Jazzy
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QUE-What does the poem excel?
Answer : Depicting the beauty of machines
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QUE- How does the poet glorify "The Express" in the poem:
Answer : By comparing it with the beauty of nature
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QUE-What is the main theme of the "The Express" poem?
Answer : the glory of the train movement
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QUE-
Answer : A
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QUE-Stephen Spender views about the modern invention ?
Answer : A mean of change and reform
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QUE- What feminine attributes to the express suggest?
Answer : Train's elegance and Grace
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QUE-The rhythmic and graceful motion of the express train is portrayed in which manner?
Answer : Feminine and Romantic manner
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QUE-The train in the poem moves away from which location?
Answer : Humble dwelling and Churchyard
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QUE-According to the poet, How does the train maintain its control?
Answer : Like Woman
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QUE-Which figure of speech are employed by the poet?
Answer :Simile and Personification
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QUE-the poet describes the train movement as marvelous that resembling .....
Answer :Sailing like a ship at sea
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QUE-The train makes familier objects appear unfamilier and strange as it:
Answer :Gliding on winding march
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QUE- The poet compares the musical sound of train and alluring song like.....
Answer :Singing of Birds
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QUE-The train in the poem is describe on mountaion as.....
Answer :majestic and Elegant like a comet
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QUE- The train is made up of which materials?
Answer :Pure metals
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QUE- the parallel lines of rails are described as glistening and shining like....
Answer : Polished metal used in gun production
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