(i) What is the quality of an oak? (ii) How does an oak fall at last?

Question

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :

“It is not growing like a tree

In bulk, doth make man better be

Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,

To fall at last, dry, bald and sere.”

(i) What is the quality of an oak?

(ii) How does an oak fall at last?

Answer 1

(i) An oak tree lives for three hundred years and it is a very large tree. In the end it falls like a log- dry, leafless and sapless.

(ii) At last the oak tree falls like a log, dried and leafless. In the same way if a man lives for a long time and does not perform noble deeds, he leads a meaningless life.