Stanza-1
Driving from my parent's home to Cochin
Driving from my parent's home to Cochin
last Friday morning, I saw my mother
beside me
doze, open mouthed, her face
ashen like that of a corpse
and realized with pain
that she was as old as she looked
but soon put that thought away,
that she was as old as she looked
but soon put that thought away,
and looked at Young Trees sprinting, the merry children
spilling out of their homes
Questions
(1) Kamala Das' mother accompanied her daughter to the airport.....
(a) To receive her younger daughter
(b) To bid her daughter kamala Das farewell/goodbye
(c) To see the airport as she had never been to any
(d) As she had also to board the plain
(ii) The figure of speech used in "ashen like that of a corpse" is
(a) Simile
(b) Metaphor
(c) Alliteration
(d) Paradox
(iii) The phrases 'Young Trees sprinting' and 'merry children spilling'
(a) Dotage (बुढापा)
(b) Death
(c) Youth
(d) Affection.
(iv) Choose the word that rhymes with 'yards'.
(a) wards
(b) check
(c) corpse
(d) merry
(v) Name the poet of the above extract.
(a) John Keats.
(b) Robert Frost
(d) Pablo Neruda.
(c) Kamala Das
(1) Kamala Das' mother accompanied her daughter to the airport.....
(a) To receive her younger daughter
(b) To bid her daughter kamala Das farewell/goodbye
(c) To see the airport as she had never been to any
(d) As she had also to board the plain
(ii) The figure of speech used in "ashen like that of a corpse" is
(a) Simile
(b) Metaphor
(c) Alliteration
(d) Paradox
(iii) The phrases 'Young Trees sprinting' and 'merry children spilling'
(a) Dotage (बुढापा)
(b) Death
(c) Youth
(d) Affection.
(iv) Choose the word that rhymes with 'yards'.
(a) wards
(b) check
(c) corpse
(d) merry
(v) Name the poet of the above extract.
(a) John Keats.
(b) Robert Frost
(d) Pablo Neruda.
(c) Kamala Das
Stanza-2
But soon
put that thought away
looked out at young
Trees sprinting, merry children spilling
Out of their home, but after the airport's
security check, standing a few yards away
Questions:
(i) What thought does the poetess put away?
(a) Of getting rich.
(b) of getting poor.
(c) Aging of her mother.
(d) Aging of herself.
(ii) What did the poetess notice when she looked out of the car ?
(a) Youth running on the road.
(b) Children fighting with one another.
(c) Car was running speedily.
(d) None of these.
(iii) Which poetic device has been used in 'young trees sprinting'?
(a) Alliteration
(b) Personification
(c) Pun
(d) None of these.
(iv) What was Kamala Das feared of ?
(a) Losing her mother
(b) Losing her flight
(c) Losing her job
(d) Losing her rapport
(v) What made the poet look out of the car ?
(a) Her laziness
(b) Her lethargy (सुस्ती)
(c) Pathetic condition of her mother
(d) Pathetic condition of her car.
Questions:
(i) What thought does the poetess put away?
(a) Of getting rich.
(b) of getting poor.
(c) Aging of her mother.
(d) Aging of herself.
(ii) What did the poetess notice when she looked out of the car ?
(a) Youth running on the road.
(b) Children fighting with one another.
(c) Car was running speedily.
(d) None of these.
(iii) Which poetic device has been used in 'young trees sprinting'?
(a) Alliteration
(b) Personification
(c) Pun
(d) None of these.
(iv) What was Kamala Das feared of ?
(a) Losing her mother
(b) Losing her flight
(c) Losing her job
(d) Losing her rapport
(v) What made the poet look out of the car ?
(a) Her laziness
(b) Her lethargy (सुस्ती)
(c) Pathetic condition of her mother
(d) Pathetic condition of her car.
Stanza-
What I want should not be
Confused
With total inactivity
Life is what it is about.
I want no truck with death
Questions:
1. Name the poem and the poet.
2. What does the poet want?
3. According to the poet what is life.
4. With what does the poet want no connection?
5. The poet advocates total inactivity (True/False)
Stanza-
Sometimes I feel myself I can hardly bear
The thought of so much childish longing in vain.
The sadness that lurks near the open window
That waits all day in almost open prayer
For the squeal of brakes, the sound of stopping a car;
Of all the thousand selfish cars that pass,
Just one to inquire what a farmer's prices are.
Questions:
1. Name the poem and the poet.
2. What is the childish longing here?
3. Why have the cars been said selfish?
4. What lurks near the open window?
5. How many cars pass from there?
Stanza-
Aunt Jennifer's tigers prance across the screen,
Bright topaz denizens of a world of green
They do not fear the men beneath the tree:
They pace in sleek chivalric certainty.
Questions:
(i) Name the poem.
(a) My Mother at Sixty Six.
(b) A Thing of Beauty
(c) Keeping Quiet.
(d) Aunt Jennifer's Tigers.
(ii) What does the word 'prance' mean in the stanza ?
(a) To walk with proud
(b) To sit idly.
(c) To eat wild animals
(d) To sit in the sun
(iii) Which poetic device has been used in the line "Aunt Jennifer's tigers prance across the screen" ?
(a) Pun
(b) Personification
(c) Antithesis
(d) Transferred Epithet.
(iv) Why have the tigers been called Aunt Jennifer's tigers ?
(a) For Aunt is the owner of the Tigers.
(b) For Aunt Jennifer has created them on a screen.
(c) For Aunt Jennifer has bought them.
(d) For Aunt Jennifer controls them in the ring.
(v) What does the poet mean by "They do not fear the men beneath the tree." ?
(a) They are not afraid of humans.
(b) They are not afraid of anyone.
(c) They walk freely and confidently.
(d) All of these.
Stanza-
Aunt Jennifer's tigers prance across the screen,
Bright topaz denizens of a world of green
They do not fear the men beneath the tree:
They pace in sleek chivalric certainty.
Questions:
1. Name the poem and the poet?
2. What do the tigers do?
3. What is the colour of the tigers?
4. How can we say that tigers are fearless?
5. How do they walk?
Stanza-
When aunt is dead, her terrified hand will lie
Still ringed with ordeals she was mastered by
The tigers in the panel that she made
Will go on prancing, proud and unafraid.
Questions:
1. Name the poem and the poet.
2. Where were the tigers?
3. Who is the aunt in the stanza?
4. By whom was the aunt mastered by?
5. What will the tigers keep on doing?