CLASS 10
A TIGER IN THE ZOO
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Stripes
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Stalks
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Cage
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None of above
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Detailed explanation-1: -To stalk is to fiercely pursue something in a very obsessive way. So this shows that the tiger is looking and waiting for the chance to pounce. He walks in his vivid stripes, as the tiger’s stripes do not follow a set pattern. Like the stripes, his walk and plans are also vivid.
Detailed explanation-2: -The few steps of his cage, On pads of velvet quiet, In his quiet rage. Here, the poet tells us that the tiger moves around in his cage at the zoo and he has bright coloured skin. His paws are velvet-like and soft.
Detailed explanation-3: -(a) ‘He’ in the given lines refers to ‘tiger’. (b) As, the tiger was kept in such a small cage, the tiger could only take a few steps. (c) The term ‘velvet quiet’ alludes to the tiger’s silent and unheard footsteps as he moves about his cage. (d) The figure of speech here is Personification.
Detailed explanation-4: -WORD-MEANINGS: 1) vivid: intense deep or bright. 2) rage: violent uncontrollable anger. In the first stanza of the poem A Tiger in the Zoo we can understand that the poet is talking about the tiger inside the cage. He has very bright stripes of black colour and his claws are as soft and smooth as the velvet cloth.