Question

On the door step of the temple

Under the hot sun

I see her everyday.

Her hands and feet are

Withered like limbs of a dead tree.

Her eyes tired of searching

For rays of hope

Are sunk deep like caves In a rock.

Neither they receive light

Nor give it.

Her three yard saree

Has torn in thirty places

Her body has absorbed.

Sixty years of dirt.

Her knotty matted hair

Is the abode of worm and lice

Here and there some black teeth,

Stand as guards in her open mouth.

The lines on her face.

Have spread far and deep.

Like the crow’s feet.

Raising her shaking hands

With hope in her eyes

She looks at me

And an electric current

joins together our two hearts

Time goes back fifteen years.

Her face changes, her eyes twinkle

When she smiles her teeth dazzle

In that one magic moment, I

I see the image of my dead mother.


Answer the following questions briefly:

(i) Where does the poet see her?

(ii) What has happened to her hands and feet?

(iii) What do her eyes search for?

(iv) How does she look at the poet?

(v) What does he say about her dress and body?

(vi) Describe her teeth and mouth.

(vii) What happens when she looks at the poet?​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. The poet sees her on the doorstep of the temple, under the hot sun

2.her hands and feet are withered like limbs of a dead tree

3.her eyes search for rays of hope

She looks at the poet raising her shaking hands and with hope in her eyes

He says abt her saree that her thirty yard saree has torn in 3O places and her body has absorbed sixty years of dirt

The poet says that some of her teeth and Black and they stand like guards for her mouth

When she looks at the poet , the poet feels as if an electric current has joined the two hearts .

He feels like time has gone back 15 years

Explanation:

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Answer 2

what are her eyes compared to?