Question

After the security check

a few yards away

I looked again at her ,wan pale

As a late winter's moon and felt that old familiar ache my childhood sphere

But all I said was "see you soon ,Amma"

All I did was smile and smile and smile

a. Where is the poet in these lines why does she look again and whom?

b. What does the poet notice about her face?

c. What does the familiar ache refer to?

d. What is the poet's childhood fear?

e. What were the poet's parting words and what do these words suggest?

f. Why did the poet smile and smile?​

Answer 1

Answer:

me 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 …”

Question 1:

Name the poem and the poet.

Answer:

The name of the poem is, ‘My Mother at Sixty-Six’ and the poet is Kamala Das.

Question 2:

Where was the poet driving to?

Answer:

The poet was driving from her parents’ home to Cochin airport on a Friday morning.

Question 3:

What did she notice about her mother?

Answer:

The poet noticed that her mother was sleeping with her mouth open and the mother’s face was the colour of ash, just like that of a dead body.