4. Childhood (Markus
Natten)
Very Short Type Q-Ans.
1. Who is the poet of
‘Childhood’?
Ans. Markus Natten
2. What does the poet wonder
about?
Ans. About his childhood
3. At what age did the
poet fear of losing his childhood?
Ans. Eleven
4. What did the poet
realise about?
Ans. About Hell and Heaven
5. What could not be
found in Geography books?
Ans. Hell and Heaven
6. What do the adults
talk and preach of?
Ans. Of love
7. What do the adults
not do?
Ans. They do not act lovingly
8. Where did the poet
go to find his childhood?
Ans. A forgotten place
9. Where did the poet
find his childhood?
Ans. In an infant’s face
10. What is the poet’s
reaction about the loss of his childhood?
Ans. He is wonder
4.
Childhood (Markus Natten)
Short Type
Q-Ans.
1. Why does the poet
think that heaven and hell are not real places?
Ans. The poet feels that Hell and
Heaven are not real places as he could not find them in geography book. The poet has come to
the age to understand and differentiate between real and unreal. So the poet
realises that hell and heaven are not real places.
2. What do adults
usually talk and preach of? How do they differ in their actions?
Ans. The speaker says that the adults are hypocrites and fail to
do what they preach and teach. He says that though adults say that we should
love each other but do not act lovingly.
3. Why does the poet say
that his childhood has gone to ‘some forgotten place’?
Ans. When the poet crossed the age
of eleven years, he realised that he had lost his childhood and had developed a mind of his own. The poet
thinks that his childhood is hidden in the face of an infant child.