For Anne Gregory Poem Important Questions Class 10 First Flight English
Very Short Answer Type Questions
Question 1. Why is the youth in despair in the poem “For Anne Gregory”?
Answer
The young man loves Anne. He is attracted towards her external beauty. He feels that young men are in despair because of her exquisite beauty.
Question 2. What makes a young man not to love the woman referred to in the first stanza?
Answer
The woman has beautiful yellow hair. But the outer part of her ears is not attractive. The poet says that men shall never love her only for herself.
Question 3. What did the religious man tell the poet?
Answer
The religious man told the poet that he found a book to prove that only god could love her for her spiritual beauty and not for her physical beauty.
Question 4. What does the woman say she can do to make herself more desirable to young men? What does this show?
Answer
The woman says that she would dye her hair brown, black or carrot colour. This shows that young men give more importance to physical appearance than inner beauty.
Short Answer Type Questions
Question 1. What does the religious man tell the poet about God’s love for man?
Answer
The religious man has told the poet that he has found a religious text. According to that, God loves a person, not for his or her physical qualities, but for their inner qualities.
Question 2. The young woman’s hair is yellow coloured. She is ready to change her hair colour to another colour. Why would she want to do so?
Answer
The young woman is ready to do so because she wants someone to love her. Moreover, she wants that someone should love her for her inner beauty and not for the colour of her hair.
Question 3. What colour is the young woman’s hair? What does she say she can change it to? Why would she want to do so?
Answer
The young woman’s hair is of yellow colour. She says that she could get her hair dyed to brown, black or carrot colour. She would change the colour of her hair so that the young men in despair would love her only and not her yellow hair. She wanted them to love her for what she was and not for her appearance such as her hair colour.
Question 4. What is the central idea of the poem, ‘For Anne Gregory’?
Answer
The poem conveys the idea that physical beauty may be important for young men or human beings, but God does not love human beings for their physical beauty. In this poem, the poet gives an example of a lover who loves the yellow hair of a young lady but does not like her ramparts. The lady disapproves his love.
Question 5. What was not liked by the young men?
Answer
The young men do not love the real person but love appearances. Everyone wants one should be loved for his actual personality and not by what he looks like. The young man does not like grey or yellow hair, and they do not care for inner beauty but love.
Question 6. What does the old religious man say?
Answer
The old religious man says that he has found a text which proves that only God could love us for ourselves alone and not for physical beauty. He is the one who truly loves us.
Long Answer Type Questions
Question 1. Why do you think, the other speaker mentioned the old religious man and the text that proves that only God can love Anne for herself alone?
Answer
It is so because the speaker wanted to tell Anne that her desire that men should not see her outer beauty is not going to be fulfilled. The speaker tells Anne that only God can be so great as to avoid external beauty and look beyond it. Man, on the other hand, falls for all things that appear pretty from outside and never bothers about what lies inside.
Question 2. The poet in the poem ‘For Anne Gregory’ conveys that we should give importance to the inner beauty and not to the physical appearance. Explain with reference to the poem.
Answer
It is an accepted fact that external beauty is short lived but inner beauty remains forever. Inner beauty gives satisfaction and joy. We should thus learn not to accept things at their face value. We should try to discover the inner beauty and strength of a person, though it is not easy to do so. We should accept the person with positive and negative values.
As the time passes relations are strengthened. In the poem ‘For Anne Gregory’ the beloved wants that her lover should love her for herself not the colour of the hair. She wants to strengthen this fact that inner beauty is more important than external beauty.
Question 3. The poet in the poem, ‘For Anne Gregory’ conveys that we should give importance to the inner beauty and not the physical appearance. Elaborate with reference to the poem.
Answer
In the conversation that takes place between Anne Gregory and another speaker, the poet has tried to show that inner beauty is real beauty, whereas physical appearance is changeable and hence, unimportant. The first speaker says to Anne that young men love her for her beautiful yellow hair and may never love her for what she really is. To this, Anne replies that her hair-colour can be changed into black, brown or carrot, meaning that external beauty is all superficial and men should not love her for that. Through Anne’s reply, the poet has made clear his preference for internal beauty over physical appearance.
Question 4. What does the young man mean by “great honey-coloured / Ramparts at your ear?” Why does he say that young men are “thrown into despair” by them? ”
Answer
The “great honey-colored / Ramparts at your ear” refers to the beautiful yellow coloured hair that falls at the woman’s ear and cover it like a wall around a fort. He says that the young men are “thrown into despair” by them because they look so beautiful on the women that her beauty gets thoroughly enhanced. The young men fall in love with her and feel despair. He says that it is not possible that someone would love her alone and not her yellow hair.
Question 5. How right or wrong is it to judge someone on the basis of his/her physical appearance?
Answer
Physical appearances never give the true account of a person as it can be changed with the help of clothing, make-up and other such things. Something which is not true and real should not be used to judge the person carrying it. A person must be judged on the basis of his behaviour that shows the true characteristics of his personality. This is explained by Anne in her reply to the first speaker that her beautiful hair-colour which attracts men is changeable, hence, men should not fall in love with her based on her hair colour.