Question

Explain the following with reference to the context: 4) When some day in distant parts she dwells​

Answer 1

For the 'Girl Child' we come across a mother's overwhelming concern for her daughter who is still to become a woman. The mother worries that her little girl who is at present full of life, spontaneity and happiness will soon be forced by society to follow suffocating customary practices. These customs will require the child to marry and become an obedient ad unquestioning wife and daughter in law who will have no choice but to do what her in-law ask her to do. The mother prays that her daughter will be looked after in her husband's home, which will be in a strange land with unfamiliar customs. This poem grieves over the inescapable loss of the girl's spontaneity, freedom and carefree ways.

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