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Literature Nature Poem Exercises
Literature Nature Poem Exercises
Literature Nature Poem Exercises
NATURE
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40. Do you agree with the poet that there are no seasons in Jamaica? Give a reason for your
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41. What are the seasons mentioned in the poem?
42. What kind of crop grows in canefields?
43. What are the raindrops compared to
44. What does swish of water in the gullies refer to?
45. What word can replace bare and fallow?
46. What does the word blossom refer to?
47. Why are the bees in the bushes?
48. Why do the tall grass sway?
49. What are the yellow stars?
50. How does the poet describe the sun?
51. Which line uses the imagery of sound and smell?
52. What are buttercups? Describe them.
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celebrate nature
the scent of honey
is idle and unproductive
The good days are the short periods where the bright golden sun shines brilliantly on the
healthy green canefields
5. The bad days are the periods of heavy rain which beats nosily like bullets on the rooftops
and when the strong Jamaican winds threated to uproot the trees.
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Jamaica is a country that has no regular four seasons but experiences short periods of golden
sunshine which alternates with days of heavy rain followed by strong winds.
7. The land is fertile
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on the eroded trenches
10. after the harvesting of the canes
11. covered everywhere
12. The gold sun shines on the lush, green canefields.
13. The rain beats like bullets on the roofs.
14. He was studying and working there for some time
15. It usually flows into the gullies.
16. The winds blow so strongly that the trees are swayed from side to side that they have to
struggle to prevent themselves from being blown away.
17. smell the scent of honey and hear the sound of bees.
18. They are a type of flowers grown there.
19. No, because it lacks details and a lot depends on the imagination perception of the reader.
20. Spring, summer, autumn and winter
21. The colour of the sun at sunrise and sunset is yellow and looks like gold.
22. The winds are strong and so they have to struggle to save themselves from being uprooted.
23. beats like bullets
24. Because when the rain falls on the roofs it sounds like bullets being released from a gun.
25. Winter and summer
26. lush and green
27. He feels Jamaica does not need the four seasons because it has its own two differing seasons
and they are good enough for Jamaica
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Autumn
They are left to fallow for the soil to recover its fertility.
They sway and shiver because they are not stable.
yellow stars and beauty
Yes, because the buttercups are yellow and look like shining stars and they are beautiful to
look at.
33. Spring or the flowering and fruiting season
34. bare and fallow
35. He feels that nature at this time of the year is beautiful and rich in colour and fragrance
because he says that the trees are fruiting and there is the smell of honey and the earth is
paved with beautiful stars.
36. He says that Jamaica may not have the four seasons but it has its own wet and dry seasons.
37. mango, cane
38. I think it is sugar cane because the persona mentions the canefields as being lush and green
so they must be planted in big plantations and after harvesting the fields are left to fallow
meaning they will be replanted with cane.
39. The poet and his countrymen
40. Yes, Jamaica has no seasons associated with cool temperate countries such as spring,
summer, autumn and winter. What it has are days associated with changes in the weather at
specific times of the year.
No, although there are no seasons associated with cool temperate countries, there are the hot
seasons as well as the rainy season that coincides with growth, ripening, rest and regrowth in
a cycle.
41. Spring, summer, autumn and winter
42. Sugarcane
43. water on the roof
44. the sound of water in the gullies
45. empty
46. flowers
47. to look for nectar
48. gentle breeze
49. Buttercups
50. As golden and magnificent
51. When the bushes are full of the sound of bees and the scent of honey
52. Buttercups are small, beautiful yellow flowers. They grow wild in the fields of Jamaica and
they look like yellow stars.