Class 9 English — Chapter 4: Wind

What you'll learn

• ▸The Dual Nature of Wind: Destructive and Friendly
• ▸Symbolism of Wind as Life's Adversities
• ▸The Poet's Call for Strength and Resilience
• ▸The Metaphor of Winnowing
• ▸Literary Device: Personification and Apostrophe
• ▸Poetic Technique: Repetition
• ▸Poem's Tone Shift
• ▸Author and Translation Context

Chapter Summary

--- PAGE 1 --- Wind * The wind blows strongly and causes a lot of destruction. * How can we make friends with it? Wind, come softly. Don't break the shutters of the windows. Don't scatter the papers. Don't throw down the books on the shelf. There, look what you did — you threw them all down. You tore the pages of the books. You brought rain again. You're very clever at poking fun at weaklings. Frail crumbling houses, crumbling doors, crumbling rafters, crumbling wood, crumbling bodies, crumbling lives, crumbling hearts — the wind god winnows and crushes them all. He won't do what you tell him. So, come, let's build strong homes, Let's joint the doors firmly. Practise to firm the body. Make the heart steadfast. Do this, and the wind will be friends with us. The wind blows out weak fires. He makes strong fires roar and flourish. His friendship is good. We praise him every day. SUBRAMANIA BHARATI …

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1. Explain how wind forms simply. Get Solution →
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4. Who is the author of the poem 'Wind'? Get Solution →
5. According to the provided text, who translated the poem 'Wind' from Tamil? Get Solution →
6. In the first stanza, what are two things the poet accuses the wind of doing to the books? Get Solution →
7. What is the definition of 'rafters' given in the glossary? Get Solution →
8. The poem states that the wind is 'very clever at poking fun at' whom? Get Solution →

Did you know?

• 💡 The fastest wind ever recorded on Earth was over 300 miles per hour.
• 💡 Wind can carry tiny dust particles around the entire planet.
• 💡 Some planets, like Neptune, have winds faster than a supersonic jet.
• 💡 Windmills have been used for thousands of years to grind grain and pump water.
• 💡 A single gust of wind once picked up a house and moved it intact.

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