Question

How to make mind map for 11th english Once upon a time ls 1 poem​

Answer 1

Answer:

Once upon a time, son

They used to laugh with their hearts

And laugh with their eyes:

But now they only laugh with their teeth

While their ice-block-cold eyes

Search behind my shadow.

There was a time indeed

They used to shake hands with their hearts But that’s gone, son

Now they shake hands without hearts

While their left hands search

My empty pockets.

“Feel at home!”, “Come again”: They say, and when I come Again and feel

At home, once, twice

There will be no thrice -

For then I find doors shut on me.

So I have learnt many things, son

I have learned to wear many faces

Like dresses – home face

Office face, street face, host face

Cocktail face, with all their conforming smiles

Like a fixed portrait smile.

And I have learned too

To laugh with only my teeth

And shake hands without my heart

I have also learned to say “Goodbye”

When I mean “Good-riddance”:

To say “Glad to meet you”

Without being glad; and to say “It’s been

Nice talking to you”, after being bored.

But believe me, son

I want to be what I used to be

When I was like you. I want

To unlearn all these muting things

Most of all, I want to relearn

How to laugh, for my laugh in the mirror

Shows only my teeth like a snake’s bare fangs!

So show me, son

How to laugh; show me how

I used to laugh and smile

Once upon a time when I was like you.