(i) What do the words 'my own' and 'mine' stand for in this extract?
(a) The poet
(b) The poet's friend
(c) The poet's father
(d) A child
(ii) Which phase of life does this stanza show?
(a) Childhood
(b) Adolescence
(c) Infant stage
(d) Adult stage
(iii) What does the poet realise in this extract?
(a) He realised that his mind was owned by others when he was a child.
(b) He realised that after becoming an adult he can make his own decisions.
(C) He realised that after becoming an adult his mind in owned by others.
(d) He realised that he cannot get his childhood again
Answers
Answer:
Think it Out
Question 1.
Identify the stanza that talks of each of the following.
1. Individuality
2. Rationalism
3. Hypocrisy
Answer:
Before answering let us understand these terms.
Individuality is a person’s quality that makes him different from others or thinking for himself without following others’ thinking blindly.
Rationalism is a stage when an individual is able to analyse a situation using reason and come to his own conclusions.
Hypocrisy is a practice of engaging in the same behaviour or activity for which one criticises another. The poet has talked about the hypocritical behaviour of adults who preach something else and practise something else.
Individuality—stanza 3
Rationalism—stanza 1
Hypocrisy—stanza 2
Question 2.
What according to the poem is involved in the process of growing up?
Answer:
According to this poem the process of growing up involves many stages. Attainment of mental maturity can be seen as an indication of growing up.
When a person becomes logical, rational and is able to maintain individual thoughts, he is assumed to be grown up. A grown up can discriminate between reality and fantasy and between reality and hypocrisy.
Question 3.
What is the poet’s feeling towards childhood?
Answer:
The poet grows nostalgic about his childhood. He feels that childhood is full of innocence. A child is neither a hypocrite nor manipulative. He is free from all these wrong habits found in adults.
Dining childhood, he is not able to distinguish between truth and imagination or reality and fiction. The poet seems to suffer from a sense of loss in losing his childhood.
Question 4.
What do you think are the most poetic lines? Why?
Answer:
The most poetic lines in the poem are
Where did my childhood go?
It went to some forgotten place,
That’s hidden in an infant’s face,
These poignant lines explain beautifully what most adults feel. These lines take us back to the innocent world of an infant where the poet thinks his childhood seems to be lying hidden. Naturally, the pure and unadulterated childhood will never come back to us, though we can find it in an infant’s face.
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