Question

A1. Complete the following:


The peasants consoled the mothers by saying:


(i) her suffering will decrease..........
(ii) the evil in this world will be
(iii) the poison will purify her
(iv) the poison will burn away......​

Answer 1

Answer:

(i) misfortunes in her next birth

(ii)diminished

(iii) flesh

(iv) sins of her previous birth

Answer 2

Answer:

This poem is by an Indian poet, Nissim Ezekiel , and it reflects Indian culture.

Explanation:

A woman, the poet's mother, has been bitten by a scorpion and its poison is flowing through her body. Holy men come in and pray over the woman to cure her.

(i) her suffering will decrease- misfortunes in her next birth

(ii) the evil in this world will be-diminished.

(iii) the poison will purify her-flesh.

(iv) the poison will burn away-sins of her previous birth.