- Action, Linking, and Auxiliary Verb: Definitions, Functions, and Examples
- Correct Use of Verbs
- Correct Use of Preposition
- Present Perfect vs. Present Perfect Continuous Tense
- Uses of Articles (A, An, The)
- Active and Passive Voice
- Indefinite and Definite Articles: Definition and Examples
- Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives
- Comparison of Adjectives & Adverbs: Examples, Sentences & Exercises
- Adjectives
- Irregular Verbs with Examples
- Modal Auxiliary Verb
- Use of Modal Verbs
- Compound Antecedents: Definition & Examples
- What is an Antecedent? Definition, Meaning & Examples
- What Are Collective Nouns?
- What Are Possessive Nouns? Examples, Definition & Types
Comprehensive English: Sentence Structure: Understanding Grammar
- Parts of Speech
- Degree of Comparison
- Difference Between Direct & Indirect Objects in Sentence Structure
- Gerunds: Are They Verbs? Are They Nouns?
- Conjunction vs. Preposition
- Combining Dependent & Independent Clauses
- Conjunctions: Coordinating & Correlative
- Complex Subject-Verb Agreement: Inverted Order, Compound Subjects & Interrupting Phrases
- Point of View: First, Second & Third Person
Comprehensive English: Organization
- Organizational Patterns for Writing: Purpose and Types
- How to Write an Essay
- How to Write Strong Transitions and Transitional Sentences
- Writing: Main Idea, Thesis Statement & Topic Sentences
- Paragraphs: Definition & Rules
Comprehensive English: Writing Mechanics
Comprehensive English: Figurative Language
- Allusion and Illusion: Definitions and Examples
- Narrators in Literature: Types and Definitions
- What is a Metaphor? Examples, Definition & Types
Comprehensive English: Writing Assessment Tools & Strategies
- Qualities of Good Assessments: Standardization, Practicality, Reliability & Validity
- Forms of Assessment
- Self-Assessment in Writing: Definition & Examples
- How to Set a Grading Rubric for Literary Essays
- Standard Score: Definition & Examples
- Raw Score: Definition & Explanation
- How to Create a Writing Portfolio
Comprehensive English: Effective Listening & Speaking
Comprehensive English: Developing Word Identification Skills
English: Class 6 : Honey Suckle
- The Banyan Tree
- Desert Animals
- A Game of Chance
- Fair Play
- Who I Am
- A Different Kind of School
- An Indian-American Woman in Space: Kalpana Chawla
- How the Dog Found Himself a New Master
- Who Did Patrick’s Homework
English: Class 6 : Poem
English: Class 6 : A Pact with the sun
- A Strange Wrestling Match
- What Happened to the Reptiles
- A Pact with the Sun
- The Wonder Called Sleep
- The Monkey and the Crocodile
- Tansen
- The Old Clock Shop
- The Shepherd’s Treasure
- The Friendly Mongoose
- A Tale of Two Birds
English: Class 7 : Honeycomb
English: Class 7: Alien Hand
- An Alien Hand
- A Tiger in the House
- The Bear Story
- Chandni
- I Want Something in a Cage
- Golu Grows a Nose
- The Cop and the Anthem
- The Desert
- Bringing Up Kari
- The Tiny Teacher
English: Class 7: Poem
- Garden Snake
- Meadow Surprises
- Dad and the Cat and the Tree
- Mystery of the Talking Fan
- Trees
- Chivvy
- The Shed
- The Rebel
- The Squirrel
English: Class 8: Honey Dew
- The Great Stone Face II
- The Great Stone Face I
- A Short Monsoon Diary
- A Visit to Cambridge
- This is Jody’s Fawn
- The Summit Within
- Bepin Choudhury’s Lapse of Memory
- Glimpses of the Past
- The Best Christmas Present in the World
English: Class 8: Poem
English: Class 8: It so happened
- Ancient Education System of India
- The Comet — II
- The Comet — I
- Jalebis
- The Open Window
- The Fight
- The Treasure Within
- The Selfish Giant
- Children At Work
English: Class 9: Beehive
- Kathmandu
- If I were You
- The Bond of Love
- Reach for the Top
- Packing
- My Childhood
- The Snake and the Mirror
- A Truly Beautiful Mind
- The Sound of Music
- The Fun They Had
English: Class 9: Poem
English: Class 9: Moments
- A House Is Not a Home
- The Last Leaf
- Weathering the Storm in Ersama
- The Happy Prince
- In the Kingdom of Fools
English: Class 10: First Flight
- The Proposal
- The Sermon at Banaras
- Madam Rides the Bus
- Mijbil the Otter
- Glimpses of India
- The Hundred Dresses - II
- The Hundred Dresses - I
- From the Diary of Anne Frank
- Two Stories about Flying
- Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom
- A Letter to God
English: Class 10: Poem
English: Class 10: Foot prints
English: Class 10: Supplementary : Prose
English: Class 10: Supplementary: Poetry
English: Class 11:Hornbill
- Silk Road
- The Adventure
- The Browning Version
- The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role
- Landscape of the Soul
- Discovering Tut: the Saga Continues
- We’re Not Afraid to Die..if We Can All Be Together
- The Portrait of a Lady
English: Class 11: Supplementary
- The Tale of Melon City
- Birth
- The Ghat of the Only World
- Albert Einstein at School
- Ranga’s Marriage
- The Address
- The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse
English: Class 11: Poem
- 2Ajamil and the Tigers
- Ode to a Nightingale
- Felling of the Banyan Tree
- Refugee Blues
- For Elkana
- Hawk Roosting
- Mother Tongue
- The World is too Much With Us
- Telephone Conversation
- Coming
- Let me Not to the Marriage of True Minds
- The Peacock
English: Class 12: Prose
- Going Places
- The Interview
- Poets and Pancakes
- Indigo
- The Rattrap
- Deep Water
- Lost Spring
- The Last Lesson
English: Class 12: Supplementary
Chapter Summary
The poet Zulfikar Ghose, in the poem “Geography Lesson” portrays the actual state of India when it was under the dominance of British rule. In this poetic masterpiece, the poet mainly focuses on three factors such as what is the process of looking at everything beautiful, how the civipzation of this planet was set up and what is the main reason for hating people each other.
The poet reapzes this thought when he saw the city form a jet and he finds that the city is not at all properly planned. He thinks that the most essential thing about this planet is water should be used for multiple activities pke agricultural purposes, transportation as well as business performances. The poet reflects on the various habitats of the people when he moves higher in the sky. The poet reapzes from here that the people have created boundaries and hate one another.
The poem shows his great concern about the spanision along with the continuous friction among the country s people. From the jet, the poet sees that the city is not planned accurately and is much disorganized. The city is located by a river so the poet also finds that water, the most essential natural resource is not playfully used in the city.
Finally, the poet finds from the jet that people build walls, boundaries as well as fences and pve in them. Here the poet says that the people should be aware of the shape of the earth along with the emergence of different civipzations, sets up of cities as well as nations. He does not find any reason why the people on this planet hate one another. The poet also feels that people become more selfish, jealous as well as narrow-minded. According to the poet, if people forget the differences and pve peacefully together then the earth will be a wonderful, exciting and lovable place.
Find three or four phrases in stanzas one and two which are pkely to occur in a geography lesson.
The three or four phrases that are found in the poem Geography Lesson are the city had developed the way it had and it scaled six inches to the mile. Besides this, the poet has also used some phrases pke the country had cities where the rivers ran and land and water attracted man in this poem.
Mention two things that are
Clear from the height
Not clear from the height.
In this poem, the poet Zulfikar Ghose looks from the height that it is clear that the cities along with the values of multiple countries are very much populated especially the portion beside rivers. Besides this, it is also impped to the poet that the earth is mostly round and it consumed more sea compared to land.
In the poem Geography Lesson, the poet looks at the surface of the city in a poetic sight and that is what he saw several things, which are not to have happened on this planet. According to the poet, it is very harmful to the people along with the city. The poet looks from the height of several things and it is very difficult for the poet for making out the reason why the people in this city hate one another. The people of the city create boundaries, fences as well as walls and pve into them.
They have forgotten that nature does not imply any boundaries or restrictions. The human being in this city increases their wealth but become more insecure. Gradually they become jealous, selfish as well as self-centred as they pve within a small boundary with their small thoughts. Nature is fair to everyone and it is equal to all but the human being does not understand it. The people are always trying hard and soul to spanide the countries and cities by making some boundaries and walls.
FAQs
Q1. What type of geographic lessons did the poet learn from the jet journey when it is just taking off?
Ans. In this poem, the poet learned many geographic lessons from the jet journey when it is just taking off. At first, the poet puts forward some of the common assumptions about the geographic lessons such as that human beings have developed a lot but they become more selfish, jealous and self-centred. Besides this, the poet also finds that the city is not at all well planned and the natural resources are not used properly. It is also felt by the poet that the lands of the city are used as per necessity.
Q2. What did the poet try to apprehend from the height of ten thousand feet?
Ans. The poet tried to apprehend from the height of ten thousand feet that the city mainly grew as per the necessity of water. Water successfully fulfils all the necessities such as agricultural purposes along with transportation and several business perspectives. Besides this, the poet also finds that the valleys of the city are very much populated and they pve by the river as per the requirements of water for different purposes. Moreover, the poet has reapsed that water and land, which are the most important natural sources, are not used with proper planning.
Q3. What is the principal geographic logic provided by the poet in this poem?
Ans. The poet after reaching the highest feet the poet mainly apprehends the simple fact that the city mainly grows because of the necessity of water resources. Water mainly fulfilled all the necessities of human beings from different perspectives. The poet finds the main differences between men because of each other and it is seen by the poet that it is the reason for the spanision of the earth. The people are detached from one another because of some shallow reasons.