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A Legend of Northland

1. Why was Saint Peter tired and hungry?


Saint Peter was a holy man. He used to preach people. For his preaching he often
made long journey. During the course of his journey, sometimes, he did not take food
and water. Besides, he had to observe fasts also. Fasts and journey were the
essential part of his life. Hence, he was tired and hungry.
2. What did Saint Peter ask the old lady for? What was the lady’s reaction?

Saint Peter asked the old lady for a piece of cake. The lady behaved miserly
and kept decreasing the size of the cake. At last she did not give him anything
to eat.
3. What happened to the cake every time when the old lady tried to bake it?
The old lady was a greedy woman. She had no desire to share her things with
others. Once Saint Peter was tired and hungry. He arrived at her cottage to
get something. The old lady tried again and again to bake a too small cake for
Saint Peter. But the size of cake always appeared to her bigger and the lady
was even unable to give this cake to the saint.
4. What happened to the old lady when Saint Peter cursed her?

Saint Peter became angry at her greed because she did not give a piece of
cake to Saint Peter to satiate his hunger. When he cursed the lady, she
turned into a bird. She flew through the chimney. Finally, she became a
woodpecker. She wore a red cap and her body was black. Besides, she was
bound to live in the forest with scanty food.
5. Describe the landscape of the Northland as described in the poem.

The Northland is far away in the north. In this land of snow and ice, the days
are very short. The nights are too long. When it snows, they harness swift
reindeer to the sledges. Children are packed with so many layers of clothes to
protect from the cold. In their funny and furry clothes they look like cubs of
bears.
6. Why did the little old woman had to struggle for her scanty food after she was
cursed to be a woodpecker?

The greedy little woman denied hungry St Peter even a small piece of cake.
She made a very small piece of cake but it seemed too large to her to be
given away. She went on making it still small and smaller. She was cursed by
St. Peter to be a woodpecker. She was made to struggle even for her scanty
food. As a woodpecker, she went on boring to get a small morsel of food.
7. What moral lesson do you get from this poem?
This poem teaches us that true happiness lies in sharing things with the
persons who are in need. If we are greedy, we cannot have happiness in our
life. On the other hand our charitable nature makes us think about pains and
sorrows suffered by the other people. The charitable people have many
friends and they are always connected with one another with a strong bond of
sentiments. But the greedy people have hardly any friends and they often live
alone in the world.
8. Literary Devices in the poem
1. Rhyme Scheme: abcb
2. Alliteration: is the repetition of a consonant sound in two or more close words.
Stanza 1 – that, they, them through – ‘th’ sound is repeating
funny, furry ; learn, lesson; tell, tale,

3.Repetition: any word or sentence is repeated to lay emphasis on it.


Stanza 1 – ‘away’ word is repeated
Stanza 9 – ‘rolled’ word is repeated
Stanza 13, 16 – ‘boring’ word is repeated
4.Enjambment: running lines of poetry from one to the next without using any kind of
punctuation to indicate a stop
Stanza 1 – line 3 and 4
5.Simile: Comparison using ‘as’ or ‘like’
Stanza 2 – ‘the children look like bear’s cubs’. Children compared to bear’s cubs
Stanza 9 – ‘baked it thin as a wafer’. Cake is compared to a wafer.
Stanza 15 – ‘clothes were burned black as a coal’. The colour of the burned clothes is compared
to that of coal.

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