Question

EXTRACT:-
when did my childhood go?
Was it the time I realized that adults were not
all they seemed to be.
they talked of love and preached of love.
but did not act so lovingly.
Was that the day!

(a) What did the speaker realize ans when?
(b) How is the behaviour of adults contrary to what they say and do?
(c) how is the realisation about adults makes the poet feel that his childhood was over?
(d) "was that the day!" Which day is poet referring to?

Answer 1

✌✌Hey dear!!

✔✔Here's your answer:-

▫( a ) The poet realised that his childhood was gone when he adults were not all that they seemed to be.

▫( b ) The adults talk of love and preach it but don't act so lovingly.

▫( c ) The poet realised that his childhood was over when he realised that he was behaving the way adults behaved.

▫( d ) "Was that the day" refers to day when the poet's childhood was over.

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Answer 2

The answer to the given questions are as follows:

• The speaker realised that his childhood was gone when he started to know that the adults were not what they seem like.

• The behaviour of adults is contrary, claimed the speaker. He claims that the adults spoke about love and preached about it but he did not seem to follow it in his own life. The adult who preached about love did not act lovingly.

• The realisation of adults being not as they look or preach makes the speaker feel that his childhood had ended.

• "Was that the day" is the reference to the day when the speaker for the first time seemed to notice the difference in the adults.