Once upon
upon a time chapter in english class 12th i want solution of this chapter
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1. What is the difference between how people laughed once upon a time and now.
Answer: The poet noticed a marked change in the behavioural pattern of a modern man. He says that people used to laugh with their heart their emotions were true and genuine but nowadays they smile only with their teeth. There is no sign of geniuses in their smile. It is like they smile out of compulsion.
2. What are some of those ‘Meeting things’ which Gabriel okara says he wants to unlearn.
Ans:- The poet observed that he had lost his true emotions and innocence and moulded himself as per the behavioural pattern of others. He has learned to smile only with his teeth without having any feelings. He laughs only for the shake of laughing there are no true emotions in his words and feelings they are said just with his tongue and not his heart. He has emotionally detached from other people. He has learned to wearer different faces for different occasions such as office face, street face, hostface cocktail face and have a smile like a fixed photograph that never changes.
He has learned to deal with this hard, insincere world by becoming just like all people. The poet says that people great one another just for the shake of greetings. The poet resentfully admits that he, too, makes hollow greetings. He is not happy with such Hippocratic dealings. All these things the poets want to unlearn and regain good habits.
3) Give an example of hypocrisy in modern life as described by Gabriel okara.
Ans:- In the poem once upon a time the poet highlights the hypocrisy of modern life. He says that now a dog’s people laugh only with their teeth and there is no sign of geniuses in their smile. They smile only for the shake of smiling. It is like they smile out of compulsion people great each other only for the shake of greeting.
4. How do people shake hands?
Ans:- The poet notices a dramatic change in the way the people behave. According to the poet, there was a time when people met each other heartily and shake hands with good intentions but time changes every person. All good intentions have gone now. Everybody is focusing on their gain. They shake hands without heart.
5. Why have the eyes of the modern man been compared to a block of ice?
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What does the phrase ‘Ice-block-cold eyes’
Ans:- The poet says that people have become mechanical. There is no shine and geniuses in their eyes when they smile. They laugh only for the shake of laughing. The phrase “Ice-block-cold eyes” means that there is no emotion or feelings in their action.
6. What is ironical about the invitation?
Ans:- The poet says that people great one another only for the shake of greeting and not heartily. People invite welcoming them. People invite somebody to come home but that man visited them their reactions seems to be different. It is like they shut the door for that man or any other guest. They don’t receive the guest third time.
7. Why does the poet say “Glad to meet you” without being glad?
8. What are the things that the poet want to unlearn and why?
Ans:- The poet wants to unlearn all bad habits that he has learnt from society and that has killed his true emotions and personality and has made him artificial and mechanical. He wishes to do so he has become.
9. what are the types of Faces he has learned to wear at present time?
Ans:- According to the poet people has learnt to change their facial expressions for different occasions. He has also learnt to wear different faces for different occasions such as officeface, streetface, cocktailface, hostface and have a smile like a fixed photograph.
10. What does the expression ‘laugh with their teeth’ mean?
Ans:- The expression ‘laugh with their teeth means that people do not laugh heartily. They laugh only for the shake of laughing. There is no sign of geniuses in their laugh. It is like they laugh out of compulsion.
12. Why does the poet want to learn from his son.
Ans:- The poet wants to learn from his son because his son is not affected by the environment and society. The child, however, is a picture of innocence and acts without any malice. His emotions and smile are genuine.
14. Write the central idea of the poem-Once upon a time.
Ans:- Innocence is a fading aspect of the man’s society. People always appear deceitful and cunning. The child, however, is a picture of innocence and acts without any malice or ulterior motive. The man wishes to again this innocence from his son, though he fails to realise that innocence is not learned, a state of mind. Once it is lost, it is gone forever.
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