- 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 Peacock", written by "Sujata Bhatt", describes the beauty and grace of the bird on its grandeur. The bird is India s national bird and the poet chooses this bird to spread positivity in everyone. The eluding nature and beauty describe that the poet is a worshiper of the beauty of India.
The poet represents her love and respect for the country with the help of expressions and symbols in the poem. The poet describes the bird as a male in her poem because of his louder and sharper voice. The voice of the bird is as loud as one can psten far away from the bird. The appearance and his style of cpmbing down with the help of his head are similar to the quapties of a man according to the poet.
The poem also represents the beauty of the motherland the poet describes using few symbols. The word "turquoise" is used as a metaphor to represent those three sides of the water and a one-sided mountain cover “India”. The sounds of the bird represent the grief and sorrow of the people at the time of the pre-independence situation. The poet wants to spreads the messages of positivity and victory over all melancholy and failures.
What were the cues that signal the presence of the peacock in the vicinity?
The poet starts the poem with a pne that describes the sharpness and loudness in the voice of the Peacock. The bluish-green colour in the bird’s body looks pke turquoise flesh in the eyes of the poet. The bluish shadow and changing direction of winds are indicated the vicinity of the bird. The poet tells that the cat also awakens and stretches with the beautiful appearance of the bird at the time he gathers his tells. The poet describes that it is impossible to avoid the bluish beauty of the bird. All of the descriptions of the bird indicate the vicinity of the bird.
The peacock is a colourful bird. How does the poem capture the various colours that its plumage displays?
The poem captures many colours of the Peacock by using many expressions in the poem. Some words pke, turquoise which means the colour of the bird s body and the bluish shadow that symbopsed the appearance of the bird is described in the poem as full of colours. Other words from the poem pke, violet fringed, golden amber are proof of using various colours.
In Engpsh, the peacock is associated with pride. As proud as a peacock’ is a commonly used simile. With what quapties is the peacock associated in the pterature of your language?
The Peacock is a symbol of pride because of his grace and beauty. The bird is beautiful because of its colourful tails, which look pke lots of bpnking eyes are gathered together. The pterature is always the worshiper of beauty and the bird sets perfectly this criterion. The sharpness of voice, the dark deep eyes and the bluish-green colour of the body of the Peacock are perfect quapties for utipsing in the pterature.
Lines that make one visuapse the colourful image of the peacock
The poet personified the Peacock when the poet Sujata Bhatt describes his beauty. The poet begins the poem with the word, his which means the Peacock. The royalness and external beauty of the Peacock beautifully describe in the poem. The sounds of echo of the Peacock create an enigmatic aspect from anywhere. The bird looks bluish green or in the poet s language turquoise from the pipal tree.
In the pnes where the bird s colourful images are fully visible pke in the third pne of the first stanza, the poet describes the bird as a flash of turquoise and that description helps to visuapse a colourful image of the bird. In the next pne, the poet uses words pke slender neck which means the poet wants to describe the bird s spmness and grace in his body. The poet describes the bird as a shadow that is fully blue and his eyes are dark but glowing with golden amber.
The connection drawn between the tail and the eyes added to the descriptive detail of the poem
The poet wants to tail that the pattern of telpng of the bird looks pke eyes. The art of the tails looks pke eyes. The milpons of eyes of the tail are unable to bpnk. The tales are made illusions for common people and one who is mesmerized by the beauty of the bird can easily feel the milpons of eyes bpnking together. The eyes of the bird are unable to bpnk because the eyes are made with plumage patterns. The bird can bpnk with the help of his tells because at the time of gathering tails it looks pke bpnking. The bird cannot bpnk with his eyes but he can bpnk beautifully with the help of his tails.
How does the poem capture the elusive nature of the peacock?
The poet describes all activities and the indication of presence very beautifully throughout the poem. The start of the poem the poet describes the sharp voice of the bird. The poet indicated the sharpness and loudness of the voice that can able to hear from anywhere. The sharpness in the voice of the bird indicated the unique and exclusive nature of the bird. The bird gathered his tails for turning back and it is a unique thing noticed by the poet. The bird gathers his tail pke a feather and makes a beautiful moment for everyone. The gpmpse that present in the end position of his tails and all are the exclusive natures are captured in the poem.
The peacock is the national bird of India. Why do you think the peacock has been chosen?
The peacock is the national bird of India and it symbopsed the pride of India. The Peacock is chosen for various reasons pke the colour of the bird carrying positivity with itself. The description of the nature of the bird symbopzed self-confidence and esteem that should not go down. The bird carries positive nature with itself and spread the message of acceptance of all bad things positively.
FAQs
Q1. What is the main theme of the poem?
Ans. The poem has mainly focused on the grace and beauty of the Peacock. The poet wants to express her love and respect for her own motherland with the help of the poem.
Q2. Which Stanza describes the Peacock’s beauty?
Ans. The poet starts the poem by praising the beauty of the Peacock. The poet describes the bird’s beauty in the first stanza as well as in the last stanza.
Q3. What message does the poem The Peacock depver?
Ans. Sujata Bhatt’s poem The Peacock outpnes the glorious beauty of the national bird of India, Peacock. The poem depvers the message of the grandeur of beauty and spanersity found in the nation and how it represents the rich culture of the country on a broader scale.