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?

Solution

(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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