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1) The document is a geography lesson based on the poem "Geography" by Pakistani-American poet Zulfikar Ghose. It provides background on the poet and analyzes phrases and themes from the poem. 2) The lesson contains questions and answers about phrases that might occur in a geography lesson and themes of logic and development seen from above. 3) One key lesson the poet learned when flying over his city was that cities below were not properly planned but their placement was reasonable according to the "compulsion of geography" near resources like valleys and rivers. However, human conflicts seem illogical from above.

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1) The document is a geography lesson based on the poem "Geography" by Pakistani-American poet Zulfikar Ghose. It provides background on the poet and analyzes phrases and themes from the poem. 2) The lesson contains questions and answers about phrases that might occur in a geography lesson and themes of logic and development seen from above. 3) One key lesson the poet learned when flying over his city was that cities below were not properly planned but their placement was reasonable according to the "compulsion of geography" near resources like valleys and rivers. However, human conflicts seem illogical from above.

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Grade VIII 9th Mile Stone, Bagalagunte, Bangalore-560 073

Aff No: 830918


Write your notes very neatly in CW; draw heading margins, side margins
Underline all bold and highlighted words

Geography Lesson
By Zulfikar Ghose

Meanings

• Inevitable: that can’t be avoided.


• Haphazard: without plan or order.
• Valleys: deep areas on land between mountain and hills.
• Delineated: shown
• Sprang: jump

About the Poet


• Zulfikar Ghose is a Pakistani-American, English language writer. He was born in 1935
in Pakistan and moved to Bombay in 1942. After the partition of British India into
Pakistan and the present India, he migrated to England, teaching at Ealing Mead
School, and then to the United States in 1969. He lives in Texas and teaches at the
University of Texas at Austin.
• Ghose’s poems—including those in The Loss of India (1964), Selected Poems (1991),
and 50 Poems (2010)—are often about the travels and memories of a self-aware
alien

Question and Answers

1. Find three or four phrases in stanzas one and two which are likely to occur in a
geography lesson.
Answer: Some of the three or four phrases which are likely to occur in a geography lesson
are listed below:
“the city had developed the way it had”
“it scaled six inches to the mile”
“the country had cities where the rivers ran”

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Grade VIII 9th Mile Stone, Bagalagunte, Bangalore-560 073
Aff No: 830918
“the valleys were populated”
“land and water attracted man”
Question 2:

2. Seen from the window of an aeroplane, the city appears (Mark in textbook, do not write
this question in notes)
(i) as haphazard as on ground.
(ii) as neat as a map.
(iii) as developed as necessary.
Mark the right answer.
Answer: (iii) as developed as necessary.

3. Which of the following statements are examples of “the logic of geography”? (Mark in
textbook, do not this question write in notes)

(i) There are cities where there are rivers.


(ii) Cities appear, as they are not from six miles above the ground.
(iii) It is easy to understand why valleys are populated.
(iv) It is difficult to understand why humans hate and kill one another.
(v) The earth is round, and it has more sea than land.
Answer:
Statements (i), (iii) and (iv) are correct.

4. Mention two things that are


(i) clear from the height.
(ii) not clear from the height.
Answer:
(i) From the height, it is clear that the cities and valleys of the various countries are
populated near the rivers. Besides, it also implies that the earth is round and that it had
more sea than land.
(ii) From the height, it is difficult to understand why the men on the earth find reasons to
hate each other and build walls across cities and want to kill. This implies that Nature does
not restrict itself in boundaries, but human beings are always trying hard to divide the
beautiful planet by building walls among themselves.

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5. What lesson of Geography did the poet learn when he flew above his city?
Answer:
As the poet flies in a jet, he notices that the cities below were not properly planned. He
could see why it was so. From a height of 10,000 feet he noticed that valleys were
populated. It was quite reasonable and understandable. It was the compulsion of
geography that people should settle down in places with flat land and plenty of water and
food. It is quite illogical why people hate and kill one another. It is greatly inhuman.

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