Question

2. Read the poem and answer the given questions
How i miss my father.

I wish he had not been

so tired

when i was

born

Writing deposit slips and checks

i think of him.

He taught me how.

This is the form,

he must have said:

the way it is done.

I learned to see bits of paper

as a way

to escape

the life he knew

and even in high school

had a savings

account.

He taught me

that telling the truth

did not always mean

a beating;

though many of my truths

must have grieved him

before the end.

Answer the following questions

a. What made Alice Walker open a savings account in High School?

b. What lesson did her father give her on telling the truth?

c. What does ‘dancing in yoga meditation’ mean in the poem?

d. Fill in the blank to complete the following statement.

Alice Walker becomes nostalgic for her father and wishes, had he been alive he would

have admired her for _________.

e. Why do you think the title of the poem is ‘Poem at Thirty-Nine’

f. Give meaning of : Taught and bits .

g. Give opposite of : Before and life .

h. Use the following words to make a meaningful sentence : Truth and father .​

Answer 1

GIVE OPPISITTE SKSN

Explanation:

XJDNS SJS S DESA S S SNAN