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My Mother At Sixty-Six
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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?
(i) The poem ‘My Mother at Sixty-Six’ is written by Kamala Das.
(ii) The narrator was driving from her parent’s home to Cochin on Friday morning.
(iii) The narrator saw her mother beside her on the seat. She was dozing with her mouth open.
(iv) T is the narrator-the poetess, Kamala Das.
(v) Her face looked colourless like that of a corpse.
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Why has the mother been compared to the late winter’s moon?
What do the parting words of the poet and her smile signify?
What did the poetess see one morning while driving from her father’s home?
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?
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