‘Oh God what happened to my usually sane mother?’ Explain in short why does the poetsee say
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Answer:
The poet was driving from her parent's home to the Cochin airport. The poet's mother had comfe to see her off. She was sitting beside her. She was dozing with her mouth open. The words 'driving' and 'doze' provide a contrast between images of dynamic activity and static passivity respectively.
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MY MOTHER AT SIXTY-SIX
- KAMALA DAS
Extract Based Questions
1. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :
"Driving from my parent's home to Cochin last Friday
morning, I saw my mother, beside me,
doze, open mouthed, her face ashen like that
of a corpse and realised with pain that she thought away"
Questions:
(a) Where was the poet coming from ? Where was she going ?
Ans. The poet had gone to her parent's home to visit them. She was now going to
Cochin from where she had to board an aeroplane for her journey back home.
(b) Where was the poet's mother ?
Ans. The poet's mother was sitting beside her in the car. She was travelling with the
poet to Cochin to see her off at the airport.
(c) How does the poet describes her mother ?
Ans. The poet describes her mother as old and pale. As she dozed off beside her, the
mother looked almost like a corpse, for her face was colourless and seemed to have
lost the fervour of life.
(d) Who does 'she' refer to in the last line ? What thoughts had she driven away ?
Ans. 'She' here refers to the poet's mother. Like all elderly people, she also suffered
from the pain of loneliness and wanted her children to be with them. However, she
seemed to have accepted her seclusion with quiet resignation, reconciling herself with
the circumstances and compulsions of life.