What did the bird see when it first stepped out of its nest?
What work does a mason do in building a house?
Which word in the poem shows that the baby bird felt warm and comfortable with its mother?
What is the meaning of the word 'fluttered' in the context of the poem?
Does the grown-up bird know how the world is made?
Who lived with the baby bird in the straw nest?
What did the bird think the world was made of while living in its second home?
What was the baby bird's first house made of?
Who were the bird's neighbours mentioned in the fourth stanza?
Mention two adjectives used by the poet in the first stanza to describe the egg.
Why are human houses not built using straw like a bird's nest?
Identify the pairs of rhyming words in each stanza of the poem "What a Bird Thought", and explain how the poet uses describing words (adjectives) to show the bird's changing environment.
What did the bird do when it became fit for "grown-up labours"? What conclusion did it reach about the world?
"What a Bird Thought" shows how knowledge grows with experience. Explain this statement in detail and discuss the central message the poet conveys.
Trace the journey of the bird from the time it was in an egg to the time it became an adult. How did its idea of the world change at each stage?
How did the bird's understanding of the world change after leaving the straw nest?
Describe the bird's first house and its shape as mentioned in the poem.
What did the bird do when it grew up and became fit for labours?
Why did the baby bird say, 'I have been very blind'?
Why did the bird say, "I have been very blind"? What made it realize this?
Describe how the bird's view of the world changed from its time inside the blue shell to its time in the nest with its mother.