Read the poem given below and answer the questions that follows:
*The Poet’ Farewell to Life**
The *** of this life’ poison has gone out,
No more does it look forward
To the coming of new leaves.
In the grove of the heart,
Burns the lamp of hope;
The path envelop’d in darkness, lighted
By a single ray of light,
As direction is found
By the pole -star
Among the cluster of stars.
Time to wrap up life’* play
Like the yogi fulfilled,
Or like the common man:
Bhishma watching it all
From his hard bed of arrows.
Mellow’d is the summer’* heat, the rain over,
Past is life’* autumn, covered over with golden hair;
Gone the biting winter, the *** spring,
Filled with the pleasure mangoes bring.
Spent is the expedition fourfold,
The poet’ ** on life, conquering quarters four
Rich with movement, rhythm and vision,
With sound full of significance,
Endowed with imagery, emotion of art and love:
The ringing arithmetic of music, rhyme, meter,
Has already slipped from these fingers.
Playful acts turned to shame-faced silence,
Fatuous the attacks of rival wrestlers with words,
They’ve gone wide of the mark.
This skin, once taut as a leather-shield,
Hangs in folds from the body.
Come morning once again,
Let it be another round of life.
(a) What does the poet mean by" The **** of this life poison"?
(b) What is directing the poet now?
(c) Explain ' spent in the expedition fourfold'.
(d) What makes the sound significant?
(e) With what has the skin been compared to?
(f) Give the gist of the poem in a sentence.
(g) Give the meaning of 'fatuous'.
