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My Mother At Sixty-Six
What kind of pain and ache that the poetess feels?
The poetess feels pain on seeing the pale and corpse like face of her mother. There appears her old familiar pain of childhood in her heart. She realises that her mother’s face has become like the withered moon of the winter season. She feels that time and age spare none and both are inevitable.
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How has the poetess portrayed her mother when she was beside her?
Why did the poetess look outside her car?
How does the poetess describe the outside world? What does it signify?
What type of contracts one can realise in the poem “My Mother At Sixty-six?”
What does the poetess notice after the security check?
What has been the poetess’s childhood fear?
Or
What was the old familiar ache. That the poet felt when she left for the air port?
In the above lines ‘I’ stands for:
The narrator conducted herself than by:
The continuous smile of the poetess is an attempt:
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Driving from my pare nt’s home to
Cochin last Friday morning,
I saw my mother, beside me
doze, open mouthed, her face ashen like that of a corpse.
Questions:
(i) Name the poem and the poet of these lines.
(ii) Where was the narrator going and when?
(iii) What did the narrator see beside her?
(iv) Who is ‘I’ in the above lines?
(v) How did her face look like?
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