LITERATURE
3) Answer the following questions in 30-40words each.
(2x5=10
a) “We've all a great deal to reproach ourselves with,"- Who said this? Why?
b) Why was the crofter so talkative and friendly with the peddler'?
c) Would Charley ever go back to the ticket-counter on the third level to buy tickets
Galesburg for himself and his wife?
d) What do the poet's pärting words to her mother signify?
e) How is the Earth a source of life when all seems dead on it?
Answers
Answer:
a)M Hamal
b)He had no wife or children, and craved company and friends. So, one day when the peddler turned up at his doorstep, he was happy to find someone to talk to, to be relieved of his boredom and monotony. This is the reason he was so talkative and friendly with the peddler.
c)No, Charley would never go back to the ticket-counter on the third level to buy tickets to Galesburg for himself and his wife because third level was his imagination
d)The poet's parting words, "see you soon, Amma," signify both her farewell to her mother and an effort to leave her with optimism and cheer. They also enable the poet to empathise with the sense of isolation faced by her mother in the old age.
e)In the poem 'Keeping Quiet' the Earth is a source of life because it is never in a state of total inactivity even when there is silence all around. Nature continues to work even when everything is still and silent.