CLASS: 9
SUBJECT: *ENGLISH*
Draw a pictorial representation of the poem AMANDA.What you learn from it?
Relate it with your real life situations.
(Hint: Click your own pictures of your day to day activities,what your parents instruct you to do throughout a day, present it in a creative way and relate it with the poem Amanda)
Answers
I can completely relate to the poem 'Amanda' by Robin Klein. There are a few things that we learn from the poem. (Each paragraph should be about a thing that you have learnt from the poem. Do not answer English questions in point/bullet form.)
To begin with, there are times when cultural differences do not matter. The poem is set in a foreign nation, but what Amanda feels is exactly what we feel in this part of the world. So, the poem is more about a certain age group, specifically the adolescent years, than about a child from any particular country. Therefore, children across the world are similar in many ways.
Additionally, parents across the globe behave in a similar manner. I can quite expect my own mother to say the same things that Amanda's mother does. Again, humans are not as different as they think.
Further, it is natural to depend on our imagination to avoid a real life situation, but that is only a temporary solution. Amanda wishes to be free and unbothered in another world, but she still needs to come back to reality and clean her room, just like I do. The bottom line is that what needs to be done, will have to be done in any case. One can only postpone the work a little, but cannot completely escape it.
Yet another thing that I learnt from this poem is that I am not the only one who has a difficult time with my parents. There are so many other children going through the same phase.