Love And Friendship This class discusses “Love And Friendship” reading passages or seen comprehension. This class is part of Unit 4, Lesson 2, Polytechnic English course of the Bangladesh Technical Education Board (BTEB), course code 65712. This class is also part of Class 11 – 12 (HSC) English 1st Paper Unit-4 Lesson-2.
Love And Friendship
1. Warm-up activity:
Imagine how human relationships have changed over time. Boys and girls reading in the same class may become good friends. This was not possible a hundred years ago. Write a page describing the benefits of better human relationships.
Love and friendship are the two important demands of human life. Human life becomes unlivable in their absence. Though human beings need them badly, true love and friendship are difficult to find. The short song from William Shakespeare’s (1564-1616) play As You Like It laments the absence of true love and friendship in human life.
2. Now read the lyric and answer the questions that follow:
Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man’s ingratitude;
Thy tooth is not so keen,
Because thou art not seen,
Although thy breath be rude.
Heigh-ho! sing heigh-ho!
unto the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning,
most loving mere folly:
Then heigh-ho, the holly!
This life is most jolly.
Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,
That dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot:
Though thou the waters warp,
Thy sting is not so sharp As friend remembered not.
High-ho! sing heigh-ho! unto the green holly…
3. Answer the following questions:
a. Why does the poet call the winter wind “unkind”?
b. What is worse than the winter wind?
c. Why does the poet imagine that the wind has tooth?
d. What has got sharper tooth than the winter wind?
e. Can the wind breathe? Why does the poet say that the wind’s breath is rude?
f. What is the poet’s observation about friendship and love?
g. Why does the poet find the sky bitter?
h. What kind of people forget received benefits?
i. What makes the sting of the sky sharp?
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