C Answer these questions.
1. Where was the tree planted?
2. How did the poet and the others react to the first shoots of green that appeared on
the branches of the tree?
3. Which line tells you that looking after the tree kept the poet busy?
4. How did the tree pay the poet back for all his love and care?
5. How can you say that the tree was witness to the poet's childhood exploits?
Quote the relevant lines from the poem to support your answer.
6. How long did it take to cut down the aged tree? What effect did this act have on
other beings?
Answers
Ans_1. The earliest trees were tree ferns, horsetails and lycophytes, which grew in forests in the Carboniferous period.
Ans_2. When the first shoots of green appeared on the branches of the tree, the poet and his family were very happy. Some of them reacted by saying 'Ha, that's great! ' and 'Wow! ' They looked upon the tree with pride and affection as it grow.
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Ans_4. The tree paid back for all the love and care that it was showered upon by the speaker and his family by giving shelter to the them from sun and rain.It was a beautiful sight with its red blossoms that covered the track and speaker along with his siblings ran around it and climbed it.
Ans_5. The poem “Childhood” exploits simile of stone to indicate the coldness, The metaphor of “ rain on the tamarind tree” (66) used for her child Poet exploits number of allusions.
Ans_6. It took four hours to cut down the aged tree. The poet and his family were shocked and the labourers looked sheepish.
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