Answer each of the following questions in about 150 words.
1. Reading this poem is a sensual experience. Discuss.
2. Comment on the juxtaposition of the flower-girls making garlands
for a bridegroom, while also making them for corpses at the same
time.
3. Look at the way the stanzas of the poem are divided. Notice the
rhyme scheme and the repetition of certain words. Write a note
on the effect these create on the reader.
4. How does this poem balance the physical world with the
philosophical?
Answers
Answer:
NCERT Solutions for Class 11 English Hornbill Chapter 6 Childhood Poem
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NCERT Solutions for Class 11 English
I. Think it Out
Question 1.
Identify the stanza that talks of each of the following.
1. Individuality
2. Rationalism
3. Hypocrisy
Answer:
Before answering let us understand these terms.
Individuality is a person’s quality that makes him different from others or thinking for himself without following others’ thinking blindly.
Rationalism is a stage when an individual is able to analyse a situation using reason and come to his own conclusions.
Hypocrisy is a practice of engaging in the same behaviour or activity for which one criticises another. The poet has talked about the hypocritical behaviour of adults who preach something else and practise something else.
Individuality—stanza 3
Rationalism—stanza 1
Hypocrisy—stanza 2
Question 2.
What according to the poem is involved in the process of growing up?
Answer:
According to this poem the process of growing up involves many stages. Attainment of mental maturity can be seen as an indication of growing up.
When a person becomes logical, rational and is able to maintain individual thoughts, he is assumed to be grown up. A grown up can discriminate between reality and fantasy and between reality and hypocrisy.
Question 3.
What is the poet’s feeling towards childhood?
Answer:
The poet grows nostalgic about his childhood. He feels that childhood is full of innocence. A child is neither a hypocrite nor manipulative. He is free from all these wrong habits found in adults.
Answer:
reading the poem is a sensual experience.discuss.