1. With your partner, complete the following sentences in your own words using the ideas in the poem.
(i)Do not let a thought shrivel and die because you don't have a good way to say or express it.
(ii) English is a game with words that everyone can play.
(iii) One has to match the words to the brightest thoughts in one's head.
(iv) Words are the food and dress of thought.
2. In groups of four discuss the following lines and their meanings.
(i) All that you do is match the words
To the brightest thoughts in your head.
Ans:- One is required to match the words to the brightest thoughts in one's head.
(ii)For many of the loveliest things
Have never yet been said.
Ans:-One has so many loveliest things to express properly.
(iii) And everyone's longing today to hear
Some fresh and beautiful thing.
Ans:-If one has some fresh and beautiful things to express he will find a large number of good listeners.
(iv) But only words can free a thought
From its prison behind your eyes.
Ans:-Our mind is really a treasure. If our thoughts are confined permanently in it, it turns into a prison. Only words can free our thoughts from this prison.
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