2.1 Invictus [Latest edition] Balbharati solutions for English Kumarbharati 9th Standard Maharashtra State Board

Chapter 2: Invictus

Think and respond with ‘YES’ or ‘NO’.

When you are faced with a very serious problem or some grave danger, what do you experience?

Your feelings	panic
	wishing you were never born
	hopelessness
	helplessness
	no emotion
	calmness and composure
	willingness to tackle it
Your reactions	break down and cry
	run away and hide
	pray to God
	ask for help
	build up courage
	take it as a challenge

SOLUTION

Your feelings	panic	No
	wishing you were never born	No
	hopelessness	No
	helplessness	No
	no emotion	No
	calmness and composure	Yes
	willingness to tackle it	Yes
Your reactions	break down and cry	No
	run away and hide	No
	pray to God	Yes
	ask for help	Yes
	build up courage	Yes
	take it as a challenge	Yes

Write about your feelings and reactions in 4-5 lines.

You may describe your feelings and reactions using other words than those given here

SOLUTION

When I find myself in trouble, facing a serious problem, I experience a lot of stress. A part of me just wants to run away from the problem and simply avoid dealing with it. I feel worried, angry, and edgy. But then I try to calm myself down by taking deep breaths. I prepare myself mentally to boldly overcome the obstacle and move forward again.

Form groups of four. Discuss what you actually feel and do in difficult situations and some of the things you could do and would like to do in those situations.

SOLUTION

Do it Yourself.

Guess what the following symbolise and match the pairs.

(1) a tall mountain	(a) beauty
(2) a dark night	(b) freedom
(3) a rose	(c) deep distress
(4) sunrise	(d) anger
(5) a flying bird	(e) strength/firmness
(6) thunder	(f) hope

SOLUTION

(1) a tall mountain	(1) a tall mountain
(e) strength/firmness	(e) strength/firmness
(2) a dark night	(2) a dark night
(c) deep distress	(c) deep distress
(3) a rose	(3) a rose
(a) beauty	(a) beauty

Choose the correct option :

Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from the pole of pole ___________.

OPTIONS

• There is a pit between two poles which you cannot see at night

• I am in a pit that is covered with a black sheet.

• The circumstances are as bad as they can be with nothing to hope for from any corner.

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud _______________.

OPTIONS

• I fell down and cried aloud.

• I have not expressed my grief even when I had to suffer great pains.

• I freed myself from a difficult situation and cried.

Under the bludgeonings of chance, My head is bloody _______________.

OPTIONS

• I have suffered many setbacks and losses, for which there was no reason.

• I got hurt due to my own faults.

• My enemies hit me till I started bleeding

And yet the menace of the years, Finds, and shall find, me unafraid ___________________.

OPTIONS

• My enemies threaten me but cannot find me.

• A great bully found me once, but shall not find me in the future.

• Even though I am growing old, I am not, and shall not be, afraid.

How charged with punishments the scroll, ______________.

OPTIONS

• The scroll is very expensive.

• I may have to pay for many of my mistakes.

• I have to pay money as punishment.

I am the master of my fate : ________________.

OPTIONS

• I take responsibility for everything that happens in my life.

• My fate is my master's.

• I am the master of this world.

I am the captain of my soul.

OPTIONS

• I am the captain of a team.

• My soul is the captain of my team.

• My actions are the result of my own feelings.

Write the rhyme scheme of the poem.

SOLUTION

The Rhyme Scheme of the poem is abab, cdcd, efef, ghgh.

Read the poem : ‘Where lies the land...’ by A. C. Clough.

SOLUTION

Do it Yourself.

Balbharati Solutions for English Kumarbharati 9th Standard Maharashtra State Board

 • Chapter 1.1: Life

 • Chapter 1.2: A Synopsis-The Swiss Family Robinson

 • Chapter 1.3: Have you ever seen...?

 • Chapter 1.4: Have you thought of the verb ‘have’

 • Chapter 1.5: The Necklace

 • Chapter 2.1: Invictus

 • Chapter 2.2: A True Story of Sea Turtles

 • Chapter 2.3: Somebody’s Mother

 • Chapter 2.4: The Fall of Troy

 • Chapter 2.5: Autumn

 • Chapter 2.6: The Past in the Present

 • Chapter 3.1: Silver

 • Chapter 3.2: Reading Works of Art

 • Chapter 3.3: The Road Not Taken

 • Chapter 3.4: How the First Letter was Written

 • Chapter 4.1: Please Listen!

 • Chapter 4.2: The Storyteller

 • Chapter 4.3: Intellectual Rubbish

 • Chapter 4.4: My Financial Career

 • Chapter 4.5: Tansen

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