Basketful of Moonlight Appreciation 10th class Maharashtra State Board
Dear Students, the poem “A Teenager’s Prayer” is the first poem in Unit No. 1 of your English textbook. The poem will be asked to solve the activities under the given stanzas or to write an appreciation of it for 5 marks. The poem “Basketful of Moonlight” is important for your SSC 10th Board Exam.
Poem :- Basketful of Moonlight
O moon,
give me moonlight,
basketful or two baskets full,
with seeds of moonlight.
From the city to my village,
on the sides of the path
I want to sow many,
small, small moons of light.
The whole village goes to the city
daily to work.
It becomes dark on its way back
as my village is quite far.
The route is tough and full of
snakes and scorpions.
Neither bus nor cart plies.
When my father returns home
I am asleep.
And he goes back early in the morning
while I am sleeping.
O moon
give me a basketful of moonlight
on loan.
I want to light the dark route
so that my father returns early.
I too want to hear fairy tales
and stories from him.
O moon,
give me a basketful of moonlight.
I want to sow seeds of moon
on the sides of the path.
– Sunil Sharma (Translated from Dogri)
Vocabulary: Basketful of Moonlight
plies:- travels regularly over a route
Read the poem. Write an appreciation of the poem in about 12 to 15 sentences with the help of the following points.
Points:- Basketful of Moonlight Appreciation
- Title:- The title of the poem is Basketful of Moonlight.
- Poet: The poet of the poem is Sunil Sharma.
- Rhyme scheme:- The poem has no rhyming words or rhyme scheme. It is a free-verse poem.
- Favourite line:- My Favourite lines of the poem are I want to light the dark route so that my father returns early.
- Theme/Central idea:- The poem is about a child who wants a basketful of moonlight to light the path from the city to his village because his father goes to the city for work and comes home late at night. The child does not meet his father in the morning or evening, so he wants his father to come early in the evening. That’s why the child wants a basketful of moonlight to light the path from the village to the city.
- Figures of speech:- The figures of speech of the poem are Apostrophe, Alliteration and Repetition.
- Special features:- (Type of the poem, language, style, tone, implied meanings etc.) Basketful of Moonlight is highly emotional, inspirational and motivational. The language of the poem is simple and understood easily. The style of the poem is application-based. The tone of the poem is hopefulness in every situation of the life. The poem is concerned with the child about his father.
- Why I like/dislike the poem:- I like the poem immensely because it is about the concern of a child to his father. The poem shows the relationship between father and child. Thus I like the poem very much and my thoughts match with the poet’s intension about life.
