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My Mother At Sixty-Six

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Why are the young trees described as sprinting?

Solution

The poetess is in a car on her way home to the Cochin airport. She looks outside and feels the young trees seem to be walking past them. With the car they seem to be sprinting or racing. The poetess gives a comparison and contrast of her dozing mother with those of young trees running and full of life.

Some More Questions From My Mother At Sixty-Six Chapter

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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