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My Mother At Sixty-Six
Why are the young trees described as sprinting?
The young trees are personified in the poem. They seem to be running in the opposite direction when seen through the window of the moving car. The movement is juxtaposed with the expression on the mother’s face i.e. ashen like a corpse. The movement of the children and the trees is in stark contrast with the stillness associated with the mother.
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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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