Hi Everyone!! This article will share Day By Day I Float My Paper Boats Questions & Answers.
This poem is written by Rabindranath Tagore. In my previous posts, I have shared the questions and answers of I Must Feed My Mother, The Wizard of Oz – 1 and The Throne Of Justice so, you can check these posts as well.
Day By Day I Float My Paper Boats Questions & Answers
Word Galaxy
- Strange – unknown
- Float – to move slowly through water
- Shiuli – name of a flower
- Stream – a small river
- Dawn – day-break
Question 1: Choose the correct option:
(a) How does the poet float his paper boats………
i. two by two
ii. three by three
iii. one by one
(b) How does the poet write his name on the paper boats?
i. in big block letters
ii. in small letters
iii. in red letters
(c) Where does the poet flow the paper boats?
i. in the pond
ii. down the running stream
iii. in the sea
(d) When do you think shiuli flowers bloom?
i. night
ii. morning
iii. dawn
Question 2: Where does the poet float his paper boats?
Answer: The poet floats his paper boats down the running stream.
Question 3: What does the poet write on the paper boats?
Answer: The poet wrote his name and the name of his village on the paper boats.
Question 4: Why does the poet write his name and the name of his village on the paper boats?
Answer: The poet writes his name and the name of his village on the paper boats so that the one who sees it would come to know about him.
Question 5: Explain the line:
‘I hope that someone in some strange land will find.’
Answer: In this line, the poet is saying that he loves the world of playfulness and fun. He floats paper boats down the running stream day by day. He sends these boats with the intention that they would reach some distant lands. He fondly hopes that he has an unknown friend somewhere and he would receive his paper boats there.
Question 6: Why does the poet fill the boat with shiuli flowers?
Answer: The poet filled the paper boats with shiuli flowers as a gift for the one who finds his boat on the distant land.
Question 7: What does the poet mean by ‘blooms of the dawn’?
Answer: By ‘blooms of the dawn’ the poet means the flowers that blooms early in the morning.
Question 8: Read the lines and answer the questions:
I hope that someone in some strange
Land will find them and know who I am
(a) What will someone in some strange land find?
Answer: Someone in the strange land would find the floating paper boats.
(b) How will they know ‘who I am’?
Answer: As the poet wrote his name and the name of his village on the boats so, he hoped that they would know who he was.
So, these were Day By Day I Float My Paper Boats Questions & Answers.