1. Read the given extract from the poem and do the activities that follow: [9] Blind Man on a Revolving Chair
Dozing and regretting all day long
Like a withered bamboo lamenting its hollowness
Opening wounds all day long
Like a sick dove pecking its own breast
Weeping softly all day long
Over sorrows which are unspoken
Like a pine forest in its solitude
My feet are set in a tiny space
Sheltered by a mushroom umbrella
- Bhupi Sherchan
a. Find out the words from the given poem with the similar meaning to the words below:[1x6=6]
i. Dried-
ii. Striking and making hole-
iii. Unexpressed-
iv. Wood-
v. Loneliness-
vi. Accommodated-

a) Where knowledge is free.

(b) Where the world has not been broken up into fragments;

By narrow domestic walls.

Explanation:

cabeza de vaca was an spanish explorer and n his long exploration of 11,000.km. from florida to present-day mexico, he went through a series of calamities and setbacks that only added to his deeds. he applied his religious creed with the humanist idea, always current and universal, that all men were equal before god and destiny without any discrimination. as an explorer, he became a slave to the tipinoga, then his shaman pointer, later and after an operation of heart to an indian (from which both came alive) he achieved stardom and became a hero followed by a crowd that professed unusual respect and admiration.

answer; (b); the abolitionist movement;