Question

Read the stang a given below and answer the question that follow.

I sow my mother,
seside me,
dose, open mouthed, her face
asherv like that
of a corpse and realizued with
pain
that she was as old as she
looked but soon
Put that thought oway....

(i) Name the poem and the poet.
(ii) where was the poet going.
(iii) which thought did the poet put away.
(iv) what does the Phrase, asker, like a corpe ?​

Answer 1

Answer:

1.My mother at sixty six by Kamala Das

2.The poet was driving from her parent's home to the Cochin airport.The poet's mother had come to see her off.

4.The phrase 'ashen like a corpse'means 'a pale and greyish face that has lost its colour.

3.The poet put away the painful thought of her mother's ageing and declining health and the possibility of losing her mother.