Class XI NCERT English (Hornbill)
1. The cardboard shows me how it was
When the two girl cousins went paddling
Each one holding one of my mother’s hands
And she the big girl – some twelve years or so.
(i) What does the word ‘cardboard’ suggest?
(ii) Why were the two girls holding on to the poet’s mother’s hands?
(iii) What feelings are aroused in these lines?
2. The sea holiday
Was her past, mine is her laughter, Both wry
With the laboured ease of loss.
(i) Which sea holiday is referred to here?
(ii) What was the poet’s past?
(iii) Why is the poetess nostalgic about her mother’s laughter?
Answers
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Answer:
Q1.
i)The word 'cardboard' in the poem denotes the photograph that was clicked by poet's mother's uncle. This photograph had been clicked when the poet was twelve years old.This word has been used to mean lifeless cardboard having her mother's picture.
ii)The two girl cousin was holding poet's mother hand because she was the big girl and they all were posing for the photograph
iii) THE FEELING OF JOY AND BUOYANT SPIRIT IS AROUSED IN THE FIRST STANZA.
Q2.
i)Both' refers to the sea holiday as remembered by her mother and the poet remembering her mother's laughing face.
ii)The poet remembers her mother as she sees her mother's childhood photograph. ... The poet still preserved that photograph. Now she would look at the photograph and miss her mother's laughter at her own photograph. The poet felt the sea-holiday was her mother's past; and her mother's laughter had become her past now.
iii)The speaker is nostalgic when she remembers her mother's laughter at the snapshot and then remembering that her mother is no more. The speaker feels extremly emotional when she sees the photograph.It brings back memories of her mother's laughter which was a soothing sound for her.
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The cardboard show us to when the two girls cousins went paddling.... each one holding one of their mother hand and she was big girl how was 12 years old the carboard suggest to know the feeling of a person........
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