1. A Photograph (Shirley
Toulson)
Very
Short Type Q-Ans.
1. Who is the poetess of the poem ‘A Photograph?
Answer
Ans. Shirley Toulson
2. What does the word ‘cardboard’ denote?
Answer
Ans. The photograph
3. How many girls are there in the Photograph?
Answer
Ans. Three
4. How old was the poetess when this photograph was taken?
Answer
Ans. She was not born
5. Who snapped the photograph?
Answer
Ans. Her uncle
6. Who is the ‘big girl’ in the photograph?
Answer
Ans. The poetess’s mother
7. How many years have passed since the photograph was taken?
Answer
Ans. Twenty or thirty years
8. What are the names of the two girls?
Answer
Ans. Betty and Dolly
9. Who were Betty and Dolly?
Answer
Ans. They were mother’s girl cousins
10. What were the two girls doing?
Answer
Ans. They were holding the hand of poetess’s mother
11. What was the uncle doing?
Answer
Ans. He was taking the photograph
12. Who has been dead?
Answer
Ans. The poetess’s mother
13. How long has been she dead?
Answer
Ans. About twelve years
14. What silences the poetess?
Answer
Ans. Her mother’s death
15. The sea holiday was the past of her mother. What is the poetess past?
Answer
Ans. Her mother’s laughter
2. The Laburnum Top (Ted Hughes)
1. Who is the poet of the poem ‘The Laburnum Top’?
Answer
Ans. Ted Hughes
2. How is the top of laburnum?
Answer
Ans. Silent
3. What time and month is mentioned in the poem?
Answer
Ans. An afternoon of September
4. How are the leaves of the tree?
Answer
Ans. Yellow
5. What is a laburnum?
Answer
Ans. A tree with yellow flowers
6. Which bird is mentioned in this poem?
Answer
Ans. A goldfinch
7. The goldfinch has been compared with-
Answer
Ans. A lizard
8. What does ‘machine’ mean in the poem?
Answer
Ans. The goldfinch’s family
9. What happens to the tree when the goldfinch’s family chirps?
Answer
Ans. It trembles and thrills
10. What does the goldfinch show on the branch end?
Answer
Ans. Its barred face identity mask
3. The Voice of the Rain (Walt Whitman)
1. Who is the poet of the poem ‘The Voice of the Rain’?
Answer
Ans. Walt Whitman
2. What is the poem of the earth?
Answer
Ans. The rain
3. Who does ‘thou’ refer to?
Answer
Ans. To the shower
4. What was the shower a ‘Poem’ of?
Answer
Ans. Of the earth
5. Where does the rain take birth from?
Answer
Ans. From the earth and the sea
6. What is bottomless?
Answer
Ans. The sea
7. How is shower formed?
Answer
Ans. Vaguely
8. What washes the draughts?
Answer
Ans. The shower
9. What makes the earth pure and beautiful?
Answer
Ans. The rain
10. What is the origin place of the song?
Answer
Ans. The heart
4. Childhood (Markus Natten)
Very Short Type Q-Ans.
1. Who is the poet of ‘Childhood’?
Answer
Ans. Markus Natten
2. What does the poet wonder about?
Answer
Ans. About his childhood
3. At what age did the poet fear of losing his childhood?
Answer
Ans. Eleven
4. What did the poet realise about?
Answer
Ans. About Hell and Heaven
5. What could not be found in Geography books?
Answer
Ans. Hell and Heaven
6. What do the adults talk and preach of?
Answer
Ans. Of love
7. What do the adults not do?
Answer
Ans. They do not act lovingly
8. Where did the poet go to find his childhood?
Answer
Ans. A forgotten place
9. Where did the poet find his childhood?
Answer
Ans. In an infant’s face
10. What is the poet’s reaction about the loss of his childhood?
Answer
Ans. He is wonder
5. Father to Son (Elizabeth Jennings)
Very Short Type Q-Ans.
1. Who is the poet of ‘Father to Son’?
Answer
Ans. Elizabeth Jennings
2. Who have lived together for years?
Answer
Ans. Father and son
3. Who tries to build a relationship?
Answer
Ans. The father
4. How do the father and the son behave like?
Answer
Ans. Strangers
5. Where does the father want his son return to?
Answer
Ans. His father’s house
6. Who says, ‘We both must live on the same globe’?
Answer
Ans. The father
7. What do the father and the son longing for?
Answer
Ans. For forgive
8. What is the father’s anger a product of?