Question

1. Answer the following questions briefly:
i. Who is the speaker of the poem 'For My Unborn Daughter'?
ii. To whom is the poem addressed?
iii. To what is the son likened?
iv. what promise had the bulbul made to the first women who gave her birth ?

Answer the following in 100–150 words each:
i. Comment on the use of the simile, ‘a pot of honey in the poem,
ii. Bring out the irony in the unborn daughter being compared to a
bulbul.
iii. Comment briefly on the image of the bulbul ripping open her
mother's womb.
iv. Critically analyse the following lines:
I must keep alive my song
I have promised this
To that woman
Who first birthed me.
v. Who are the fowlers and why do they pursue the bulbul?

Answer the following in 300–350 words each:
i. Examine how the poem questions the patriarchal preference for a son.
ii. Write a note on the mother's anguish for her unborn daughter.
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Answer 1

1 father

2 unborn daughter

3 a pot of honey

4 bulbul quietly rises from the trash pile

Answer 2

Explanation:

comment briefly on the image of the bulbul ripping open her mother Womb.