Question

a) “Driving from my parent's home to Cochin last Friday morning,
I saw my mother, beside me, doze, open mouthed,
her face ashen like that of a corpse and realized with pain
that she was as old as she looked but soon put that thought away."
Questions:
(i) Who is the speaker in the lines?
(ii) Where was the speaker driving to?
(iii) What was the speaker's mother doing at that time?
(iv) What pained the speaker?​

Answer 1

Answer:

OH !! Wonderful...My Mother at 66 poem question

Answers:

1. The speaker is Poet(Kamala Das).
2. The speaker was driving to Cochin Airport.
3. Poet's mother was sleepy with opened mouth.
4. Poet's mother gesture and her age pained the poet a lot.