Chapter- 7        Sympathy


1. What is the name of the poem?
Answer: Sympathy.

2. Who is the poet talking about?
Answer: Himself.

3. In what condition was the poet at first?
Answer: In deep sorrow and distress.

4. Who came to help the poet first?
Answer: A proud man.

5. What did the proud man give him?
Answer: Gold.

6. What happened to the poet after receiving gold?
Answer: His sorrow passed.

7. What did the poet do with the gold later?
Answer: He paid it back.

8. In what condition was the poet again?
Answer: In want, grief, and pain.

9. Who helped the poet the second time?
Answer: A poor man.

10. What did the poor man give him?
Answer: Bread.

11. How did the proud man help the poet?
Answer: He gave him gold but showed no sympathy.

12. How did the poor man help the poet?
Answer: He gave bread, sympathy, and kind words.

13. What three things did the poor man do?
Answer: He gave food, spoke kindly, and showed sympathy.

14. Why was the poet more thankful to the poor man?
Answer: Because he showed kindness and sympathy.

15. Could the poet repay the poor man?
Answer: No, he could not repay his kindness.

16. What does “sympathy” mean?
Answer: Showing kindness and understanding towards others.

17. What does the poem teach about money?
Answer: Money is less valuable than sympathy.

18. Which is greater according to the poem?
Answer: Sympathy is greater than gold.

19. What kind of person was the proud man?
Answer: Rich but lacking kindness.

20. What kind of person was the poor man?
Answer: Kind and sympathetic.

21. What is more important than money?
Answer: Humanity and sympathy.

22. Why is sympathy valuable?
Answer: It comforts people emotionally.

23. Can help be given without money?
Answer: Yes, through kindness and care.

24. Is money always helpful?
Answer: Yes, but it cannot replace sympathy.

25. What lesson do we learn from the poem?
Answer: Kindness is more important than wealth.

26. Who could the poet repay easily?
Answer: The proud man.

27. Why could he repay the proud man?
Answer: Because he gave only gold.

28. Why couldn’t he repay the poor man?
Answer: Because of his kindness and sympathy.

29. What does the line “gold is great” suggest?
Answer: Gold has value.

30. What does “greater far is heavenly sympathy” mean?
Answer: Sympathy is more valuable than gold.

Answer by Dimpee Bora