Follow the set of instructions before starting to write the notes.

1.Write the heading as you did for prose and the date in the
margin.
2.Write the title as shown in the document.
3.Write Answer the following questions. Leave a line and write
in between the sentences.
4. Underline your work.
29.06.2020 BOOKS
BY ELEANOR FARJEON

I. Answer the following questions

1. Why does the room ‘melt away’?
Ans. It feels as though the room is melting away because when
we read a book, we forget everything around us.
2. What is the feeling conveyed when the speaker uses the word
‘sail’?
Ans. The word ‘sail’ is a feeling of ease and smoothness. It is a
soft and gentle movement. When we read a book we get
transported into the age and land of the story as easily as
sailing on water.

3. Why does the speaker refer to a book as a ‘magic box’?

Ans. The speaker says a book as a magic box as a book takes
the reader into the wondrous world of surprises and exciting
 events, just like a magic box that brings out a whole load of
exciting things, taking us by surprise.

4. Why do you think the speaker uses the words ‘we’ and ‘our’
and not ‘me’ and ‘my’?
Ans. The speaker knows that like her, there are many other
people who love books. She is speaking not only for herself but
for all book-lovers across the world. Therefore, she uses words
like ‘us’ and ‘we’ in the poem.

II. Extract
1. Here’s our body in the chair,
But our mind is over there.
a) Where did the speaker say about the ‘mind’?
Ans. The speaker says that our body might be in the chair but
our mind would in the fantasy world created by the book.
b) Why is there a distance between the mind and the body?
Ans. There a distance between the mind and the body because
the body is in the room but the mind is far away in another age
and another land.
c) What kind of feeling is this? Does it make you feel
uncomfortable or happy?
Ans. This is a dreamy feeling and all book – lovers enjoy this
feeling. It makes us happy.