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KEEP THE FOLLOWING RESOURCES IN HAND:
1.Textbook
2.Dictionary
3.Pencil and eraser
4. English CW Notebook
ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND THE POEM(To be written in the Eng CW Notebook)
The poet is the major contemporary Indian English writer and poet.
He is the former Indian Police Service officer, who retired as the Additional Director
in the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW).
He was awarded the Sahitya Academy Award, in 1984 for his poetry collection, The
Keeper of the Dead, by the Sahitya Academy, India‟s National Academy of Letters.
He was also awarded Padma Shri.
The poem “In morning dew” by KekiDaruwall, is a beautiful piece created by him.
In the poem, the poet talks about the scarecrow.
The poem begins with a beautiful scene of the morning when the grass has
beautiful diamonds of dew on them and how it attaracts the eyes.
The poem „In Morning Dew‟, the poet tries to show the beauty of what lies around
from the eyes of a scarecrow, which sees everything around him.
We also see many things around us like the scarecrow but we fail to understand
them many a time.
We should not hesitate to ask about the things that we don‟t understand to our
friends and our elders.
Always remember, CURIOSITY leads to knowledge & thereafter, invention!!
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