The Rainbow

B) Answer these questions:

1. Where do the ships sail?
Ans: Ships sail on the seas.

2. What is much prettier than the bridges on the rivers?
Ans: The rainbow that bridges heaven is much prettier than the bridges on the rivers.

3. What are the things that the rainbow does?
Ans: The rainbow bridges heaven, overtops the trees, and builds a road from earth to sky.

4. Why does the poet compare the rainbow to a bridge?
Ans: The poet compared the rainbow to a curved bridge in the sky that joins the earth to the heavens.

5. What is the bow that connects heaven? Why is it called a bow here?
Ans: The rainbow is the bow that connects heaven. It is called a bow because of its curved shape, like an archer’s bow.

6. Which line did you like the most? Why?
Ans: I liked the lines:
‘But the bow that bridges heaven,
And overtops the trees,
And builds a road from earth to sky,
Is prettier far than these’.
I liked them because they describe the rainbow beautifully and show how nature is more wonderful than anything made by humans.

Let’s enjoy the poem

1. List all the rhyming words used in the poem.
Ans: Seas – these, Please – trees – these, Sky – sky

2. What is the theme of the poem? What does the poet want to convey?
Ans: The theme of the poem is the beauty of nature. The poem wants to show that natural things like clouds and rainbows are more beautiful than man-made things like boats, ships, and bridges.

3. Have you seen a rainbow? What are the different colours of the rainbow?
Ans: Yes, I have seen a rainbow. The different colours of the rainbow are – Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet.

4. Write a few sentences about how you feel when you see a rainbow in the sky. You can take help from the box below.

Ans: When I see a rainbow in the sky, I feel very happy and excited. The colours are so beautiful, and it makes the sky look magical. I feel full of joy and cheerful when I see it.