Question

Q. Read the stanza given below very carefully an answer the questions that follow: STANZA.
1 The cardboard shows me how it was
When the two girl cousins went paddling,
Each one holding one of my mother's hands,
And she the big girl - some twelve years or so.
a. What does the ,,cardboard" show the poet?
b. Why did the two girl cousins hold one of the poet's mother's hands?
c. How old was the oldest girl among the three cousins?
d. Why did the girls go to the sea beach?

STANZA - 2 Now she's been dead nearly as many years
As that girl lived. And of this circumstance
There is nothing to say at all. Its silence silences.
a. How long has the poet's mother been dead?
b. What is the meaning of the word „circumstance" in the poem?
c. Why is there nothing to say at all?
d. What silences the silence?​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. a) The cardboard shows me how it was when the two girl cousins went paddling, each one holding one of my mother's hands.

b) The two girl cousins hold one of the poet's mother's hands, because they were paddling.

c) The old girl was twelve years old or so.

d) The girls go to the sea beach for paddling.

2. a) The poet's mother has been died nearly as many years.

b) Interconnected with events.

c) There is nothing to say at all because the poet was full of sorrows by missing his mother.

d) The news that the poet's mother is dead, silences the silence.

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