CLASS 8 ENG CHP 12 FALLING LEAVES

**Exploring the Poem "Falling Leaves": A Comprehensive Guide**

**Introduction to the Poem**

Good morning, dear students. I hope you are all well. Today, we will delve into your 12th chapter, which features a beautiful poem titled *Falling Leaves*. As we know, with the changing seasons, particularly during autumn, leaves begin their descent from trees. This poem captures the essence of this natural phenomenon, reflecting the emotions and imagery associated with falling leaves.

**Analyzing the First Stanza**

The first stanza introduces us to the gentle sigh of leaves whispering goodbye. The poet describes leaves in various colors—yellow, crimson, and brown—as they flutter down. This scene evokes a sense of sadness, as if the trees themselves are grieving. The act of leaves whispering "goodbye" suggests a quiet farewell, while their vibrant colors add to the poignancy of the moment.

**Exploring the Second Stanza**

In the second stanza, the poet paints a vivid picture of the falling leaves. He refers to them as a "golden brain," likely due to their golden or brownish hues when they fall. The phrase "that never will be green again" highlights the inevitability of autumn, as fallen leaves cannot return to their former state. Mentioning specific trees—chestnut, hawthorne, and lime—adds depth to the imagery, emphasizing the variety and beauty of nature during this season.

**Understanding the Third Stanza**

The third stanza shifts focus to the ground beneath the trees. The fallen leaves create a vibrant carpet under the branches, showcasing their colors: brown oak leaves, yellow ash, and crimson maple leaves. This vivid description transforms the forest floor into a tapestry of natural beauty, formed overnight as the leaves fall.

**Interpreting the Fourth Stanza**

The fourth stanza introduces the role of wind in this narrative. The poet personifies the wind as cruel, driving the leaves from the trees. The leaves tremble and cling to their branches fearfully, unable to resist the force of the wind. This stanza conveys a sense of helplessness and inevitability, as the wind's power accelerates the falling process.

**Examining the Final Stanza**

In the concluding stanza, the fallen leaves float on a stream, likened to ships carrying fairies. The poem reflects on their journey, acknowledging that they will eventually reach harbor, just as winter approaches, bringing another farewell. This imagery underscores the transient nature of life and the cycles of nature.

**Engaging with Exercises**

Your task is to complete sentences based on specific lines from the poem. Carefully read these lines and derive your answers from them. These exercises will help reinforce your understanding of the poem's themes and details.

**Exploring Sounds and Pronunciation**

Focus on words with similar sounds, such as "u," "ash," and "splash." You are to write five more words for each sound category in the provided spaces. This activity enhances your phonetic awareness and appreciation of language nuances.

**Conclusion**

I hope you have enjoyed exploring *Falling Leaves*. The poem beautifully captures the melancholy yet inevitable cycle of autumn, reflecting on nature's transient beauty. With this guide, I trust you will approach your exercises with confidence and deeper understanding.

Thank you for your attention, and I wish you a wonderful day ahead.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: engood morning dear students i hope you all are fine so let us do your 12th chapter today so it's a poem and the name of the poem is falling leaves as we all know with the change of seasons like in autumn seasons leaves start falling from the trees and in this point the poet has described about the falling of the leaves from the from the trees so your first stranger is up in the trees there is a gentle sigh for the leaves are whispering goodbye goodbye leaves of yellow of crimson of brown saying goodbye as they flutter down so uh what is the scene that up in the street is a center gentle size i means to say uh you can say a sense of grief or some sadness so trees are sad because leaves are whispering whispering means to say in a low voice they are saying goodbye means they are falling away from the trees leaves of yellow means they are of yellow color they are of crimson crimson means to say dark red in color some are of brown and they all are saying goodbye as they flutter down flutter down means to say flutter is a kind of sound uh that they produce when they fall down so they are falling down and they are saying goodbye to the tree next stranger is up in the trees there is a golden brain of the leaves that nare will be green again leaves of chestnut of hawthorne and lime falling from branches of of summer time so again in the second center and second stranger poet is saying that up in the trees there is a golden brain by a golden dream so because most of the leave when they fall they turn into yellow color or golden brownish color so when they fall from the trees it appears like a golden brain so poet has called that falling of leaves that falling of yellow leaves as golden green and what he is saying that of the leaves that n e and then apostrophe e r it means uh it's an old form of never word so in earlier times never word is written like this in many poems so this means never so off the leaves that never will be green again as we all know that once leave become yellow once they die once they fall off from the tree they never they can never become green again so now a leaves of chestnut hawthorne and lime so these are the names of trees chestnut chestnut is a tree that produce glossy hard brown nuts hawthorne a thorny shrub or small tree with white or red or pink flowers and lime as we know it's a tree that be a small juicy fruit lemons just spill it there so all the trees were shedding leaves falling from branch of summer time because of the summer time because of the uh the arrival of the autumn season these are falling away from the trees falling off from the trees then third stranger is under the bows is a carpet bright which the leaves have made in a single night brown of oak leaves and yellow ash crimson of mample in radish splash so again in the third stranger what the poet is saying that under the post bows means to say branches of the trees so by falling down they had formed a carpet like something uh under the tree under the bows or the branches of the tree which the leaves have made in a single night because uh when they start falling so uh overnight they fall in a large number so they had formed a carpet like something bright carpet of leaves under the tree or under the bows brown of oak leaves so again oak is the name of tree and they are saying that these are the brown colored leaves of oak and yellow ash crimson of memphis maple is the name of tree uh with the leaves that have five points so as you can see from this picture also it may be a leave of maple because it is of uh you can say it is also having five points so they are ready means to say red colored so so crimson again means to a red color so red yellow all colored leaves are falling down on the ground then fourth stringer is all through the woods go the cruel wind and he dries the leaves with his breathe unkind leaves that over and shelter and cling trembling and frightened of everything so now they're talking about wind there's a poet is saying wind is a cruel person because uh you can say because of the wind leaves has to move uh away from the trees so all through the woods goes the cruel wind so poetry is saying that woods means to say forest or well there is a lot of trees so poet is saying that this is happening only because of cruel wind as he tries to leave with his breathe unkind because wind is very unkind to these leaves it do not leave the leaves on the trees and because of this wind leaves has to fall apart from the trees leave that over cover means to say bend low or move backward because of fear means having fear uh leaves that over and shelter and cling means the leaves were trying to stay with the tree they won't have to have a shelter they want to are they trying to cling to the tree trembling means to share shivering and frightened means to say derek way so they're uh they are having a fear of everything they are you can say they are afraid of the strong winds and they are trying to cling to the tree but they are helpless because wind is very strong and they are weak so because of that they are falling off from the tree then the last engine is all down the stream on its swell and tide floor the leaves like ships in which fairies write ships that hasn't to harbor and sigh winter is coming goodbye goodbye so again uh swallow means to say larger than normal so what they are saying that along all down the stream on its well and tide so now uh the final destination of leaves is that they flow along with the water of the rivers so stream means to say flowing river so all down the stream on its swell and died when the river is full of water uh when it is having more water so leaves flow along with its tides and floats the leaves like ships in which fairies died so leaves float on the surface of the water like boats float ships that hasn't to harbor and psy winter is coming goodbye goodbye so finally as she ships reaches the harbour harbor means to see a place where ships are loaded and unloaded so similarly after movement they also reaches one corner or one side of the river or the stream and then winter season is coming and then they are again saying goodbye goodbye so this is uh you can say a little bit sad kind of the poem in which the story of falling leaves is described by the poet so i hope you enjoyed the poem then on the next page students a one exercises complete the following sentences so what you have to do here you have to complete these sentences and you have to find the answers of the sentences from the poem so then a2 they have given you two lines and below questions are given on the basis of these lines so you have to read these lines carefully and then you have to solve these questions and i hope you can do this because this is very easy the next is your b part that is sounds and pronunciation so some words are given and their sounds are given so and uh shut find so uh a sound of u is given here then ash as splash that then arm park palm garden so you have to write five five more words of the similar sound here in the given space so you can write any word of your choice here in the given space and with this here poem is complete so i hope uh everything is clear to you so thanks for listening and have a nice daygood morning dear students i hope you all are fine so let us do your 12th chapter today so it's a poem and the name of the poem is falling leaves as we all know with the change of seasons like in autumn seasons leaves start falling from the trees and in this point the poet has described about the falling of the leaves from the from the trees so your first stranger is up in the trees there is a gentle sigh for the leaves are whispering goodbye goodbye leaves of yellow of crimson of brown saying goodbye as they flutter down so uh what is the scene that up in the street is a center gentle size i means to say uh you can say a sense of grief or some sadness so trees are sad because leaves are whispering whispering means to say in a low voice they are saying goodbye means they are falling away from the trees leaves of yellow means they are of yellow color they are of crimson crimson means to say dark red in color some are of brown and they all are saying goodbye as they flutter down flutter down means to say flutter is a kind of sound uh that they produce when they fall down so they are falling down and they are saying goodbye to the tree next stranger is up in the trees there is a golden brain of the leaves that nare will be green again leaves of chestnut of hawthorne and lime falling from branches of of summer time so again in the second center and second stranger poet is saying that up in the trees there is a golden brain by a golden dream so because most of the leave when they fall they turn into yellow color or golden brownish color so when they fall from the trees it appears like a golden brain so poet has called that falling of leaves that falling of yellow leaves as golden green and what he is saying that of the leaves that n e and then apostrophe e r it means uh it's an old form of never word so in earlier times never word is written like this in many poems so this means never so off the leaves that never will be green again as we all know that once leave become yellow once they die once they fall off from the tree they never they can never become green again so now a leaves of chestnut hawthorne and lime so these are the names of trees chestnut chestnut is a tree that produce glossy hard brown nuts hawthorne a thorny shrub or small tree with white or red or pink flowers and lime as we know it's a tree that be a small juicy fruit lemons just spill it there so all the trees were shedding leaves falling from branch of summer time because of the summer time because of the uh the arrival of the autumn season these are falling away from the trees falling off from the trees then third stranger is under the bows is a carpet bright which the leaves have made in a single night brown of oak leaves and yellow ash crimson of mample in radish splash so again in the third stranger what the poet is saying that under the post bows means to say branches of the trees so by falling down they had formed a carpet like something uh under the tree under the bows or the branches of the tree which the leaves have made in a single night because uh when they start falling so uh overnight they fall in a large number so they had formed a carpet like something bright carpet of leaves under the tree or under the bows brown of oak leaves so again oak is the name of tree and they are saying that these are the brown colored leaves of oak and yellow ash crimson of memphis maple is the name of tree uh with the leaves that have five points so as you can see from this picture also it may be a leave of maple because it is of uh you can say it is also having five points so they are ready means to say red colored so so crimson again means to a red color so red yellow all colored leaves are falling down on the ground then fourth stringer is all through the woods go the cruel wind and he dries the leaves with his breathe unkind leaves that over and shelter and cling trembling and frightened of everything so now they're talking about wind there's a poet is saying wind is a cruel person because uh you can say because of the wind leaves has to move uh away from the trees so all through the woods goes the cruel wind so poetry is saying that woods means to say forest or well there is a lot of trees so poet is saying that this is happening only because of cruel wind as he tries to leave with his breathe unkind because wind is very unkind to these leaves it do not leave the leaves on the trees and because of this wind leaves has to fall apart from the trees leave that over cover means to say bend low or move backward because of fear means having fear uh leaves that over and shelter and cling means the leaves were trying to stay with the tree they won't have to have a shelter they want to are they trying to cling to the tree trembling means to share shivering and frightened means to say derek way so they're uh they are having a fear of everything they are you can say they are afraid of the strong winds and they are trying to cling to the tree but they are helpless because wind is very strong and they are weak so because of that they are falling off from the tree then the last engine is all down the stream on its swell and tide floor the leaves like ships in which fairies write ships that hasn't to harbor and sigh winter is coming goodbye goodbye so again uh swallow means to say larger than normal so what they are saying that along all down the stream on its well and tide so now uh the final destination of leaves is that they flow along with the water of the rivers so stream means to say flowing river so all down the stream on its swell and died when the river is full of water uh when it is having more water so leaves flow along with its tides and floats the leaves like ships in which fairies died so leaves float on the surface of the water like boats float ships that hasn't to harbor and psy winter is coming goodbye goodbye so finally as she ships reaches the harbour harbor means to see a place where ships are loaded and unloaded so similarly after movement they also reaches one corner or one side of the river or the stream and then winter season is coming and then they are again saying goodbye goodbye so this is uh you can say a little bit sad kind of the poem in which the story of falling leaves is described by the poet so i hope you enjoyed the poem then on the next page students a one exercises complete the following sentences so what you have to do here you have to complete these sentences and you have to find the answers of the sentences from the poem so then a2 they have given you two lines and below questions are given on the basis of these lines so you have to read these lines carefully and then you have to solve these questions and i hope you can do this because this is very easy the next is your b part that is sounds and pronunciation so some words are given and their sounds are given so and uh shut find so uh a sound of u is given here then ash as splash that then arm park palm garden so you have to write five five more words of the similar sound here in the given space so you can write any word of your choice here in the given space and with this here poem is complete so i hope uh everything is clear to you so thanks for listening and have a nice day\n"