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 Board of Secondary Education Manipur (BOSEM) Class - X English Literature Reader (Poetry) Chapter - 1 Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimmed: But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st, Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st, So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. Substance of the Poem The poem "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?" aims to justify the beauty of the speaker’s beloved by likening it to a summer’s day. After highlighting some negative aspects o...

Class - X English Literature Reader Chapter -2 Macbeth William Shakespeare I. Answer the following questions in a sentence each. 1. Whose help did Macdonwald seek when he rebelled against King Duncan? Ans.: - Macdonwald, in his rebellion against King Duncan, sought assistance from the king of Norway and his soldiers. 2. How did the third witch address Macbeth? Ans.: - The third witch spoke to Macbeth, referring to him as the future king of Scotland. 3. Why did Lady Macbeth not stab King Duncan herself? Ans.: - Lady Macbeth refrained from stabbing King Duncan herself due to the distressing sight of the king with his white hair on his pillow, which evoked memories of her own father. 4. "Then Macbeth caught sight of his own hands..." What did Macbeth see of his own hands? Ans.: - Macbeth observed that his hands were moist with the blood of King Duncan. 5. After the discovery of the king's murder, why did Macbeth kill the two grooms guarding the king? Ans.: - After learning a...