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Time to think and answer
1. Do you really think that home and love are the primary requisites of a good life? Give
reasons for your answers. life skill critical thinking
2. The poet lays emphasis on home and love together. Can’t both of them have significance
alone? Give reasons for your answer.
3. In the poem, the poet has capitalised ‘Home’ and ‘Love’. Why do you think the poet has
done so?
Time to enjoy
1. The mood of a poem is the emotion evoked by the writer for the reader. For example,
some poems are dark, because they convey the emotions of fear, gloom and despair. Some
poems convey the feelings of cheerfulness, happiness, and some convey the mood of rage,
resentment or protest.
What kind of feelings are evoked when you read the poem ‘Home and Love’? Write in about
75 words.
2. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
3. Identify the lines depicting the poet’s belief that home and love are meant to be together.
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