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My Mother At Sixty-Six
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?
After seeing her mother at sixty-six in a pale like corpse face, her childhood fear returns. She is much pained at the ageing and deeping of her mother. She is deeply hurt lest she should not find her mother alive after her return. She also realises that in the coming years, she will also have to face all such processes of life. These appear very much troublesome to her.
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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:
TANZA - 1
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?
STANZA-2
and realised with pain
that she thought away, and looked but soon
put that thought away, and looked out at young
trees sprinting, the merry children spilling out of their homes,
Questions:
(i) What did the poetess realise?
(ii) How did the poetess put away that thought?
(iii) What did she look out?
(iv) Trace the word in the stanza that means ‘Jovial’.
(v) What do the children and trees signify?
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