Question

Read the extracts given below and choose the options which are most appropriate : (1 x 3 = 3 marks)

Silence surrounds us. I would have

Him prodigal, returning to

His father’s house, the home he know,

Rather than see him make and move

His world. I would forgive him too

Shaping from sorrow a new love.

(a) The father wants his son to

(i) Return

(ii) Go away

(iii) Get punished

(iv) Stay silent

(b) ‘Silence surrounds’ them because

(i) They are father and son

(ii) They are unknown to each other

(iii) There is no communication between the two

(iv) They are friends

(c) The word ‘prodigal’ means

(i) Miser

(ii) Extravagant

OR

A sweet face,

My mother’s, that was before I was born.

And the sea, which appears to have changed less,

Washed their terribly transient feet.

(a) The mother looked at that time

(i) Fat and round

(ii) Ugly

(iii) Sweet

(iv) Old

(b) The photograph was clicked when the poet was

(i) A child

(ii) A young boy

(iii) Not born

(iv) An old man

(c) The word transient’ shows

(i) The permanence of the sea

(ii) The momentary life

(iii) The permanence of the photograph

(iv) The sea which had not chang

Answer 1

These lines have been taken from the poem 'Father to Son' by Elizabeth Jennings. This poem is in +1 English Core syllabus (CBSE).

in these lines the poet is expressing his wish for his son's return to him in the same way the Prodigal Son in the Biblical story returned to his father. The father has a longing to forget all the differences between him and his son; he wants to forgive him and develop a new loving relationship with him.