Question

Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow:
… I saw my mother, beside me,
doze, open mouthed, her face
ashen like that
of a corpse and realised with pain
i. Where is the speaker and with whom?
ii. What does the speaker realise with pain and how?
iii. Why is that realisation painful?
iv. Identify the figure of speech used in the above lines, with example.

Answer 1

Answer:

1. The speaker is sitting in the car with her mother.
2. The poet realises with pain that her mother has grown much older nd she is lacking of the vital force of life . she realise this ache while travelling with her mother.
3. This realisation is painful because she is afraid of lossing her mother who is 66 years old.
4. similie

Answer 2

Explanation:

1. the speaker was with her mother in a car and are moving towards airport.

2.the poet realises the pain of her mother as she is moving apart from her.

3. the realisation is painful as the poet knows it is hard for her and her mother both so she feels it very hard to go away from her mother.

4.Figures of speech are synecdoche , alliteration