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My Mother At Sixty-Six

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What was Kamala Das’ childhood fear? How did she try to remove it?

Solution

Kamala Das’s mother was an old lady of sixty six. Her childhood fear returned on seeing her pale and corpse-like face she feared lest her mother should die before her return. She also got troubled on thinking that she would also face such processes of life. She tries to remove her fear by providing her moral support to her mother. Through her smiles she assures her to meet again.

Some More Questions From My Mother At Sixty-Six Chapter

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?

The poetess said to the other lady:

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