Question

the old man cannot lift this heavy load

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Answer 1

Explanation:

he poem, ‘My Mother at Sixty-Six’ rendered in blank verse, examines the theme of advancing age and the fear of loss and separation.

The poetess on way to the airport at Cochin is suddenly struck by the thought that her mother has grown old. This realization being sudden is alarming. Old age seems to have crept up on her and it is a reality that she finds hard to accept. Her corpse like an ashen face brings thoughts of her eventual death. Her mother sleeping beside her in the car appears pale and worn out and the green trees racing past and speeding car are a grim reminder that time has flown by. The joyous children playing outside give her the respite that she is seeking from her thoughts of old age and parting as they are representative of youth, energy and life. Perhaps they take her back to the days of her idyllic youth when her mother too was young and energetic or perhaps they bring to the fore the fear of losing her mother that haunts every young child. Once again she feels the insecurity of parting from her mother- who has lost the blush of youth and middle age and in the twilight of her life has become as pale as lusterless as the winter moon.

Beset with sorrow at this knowledge and with the insecurity and pain of parting the poetess at the airport bids her old mother goodbye, smiling all the time in a vain attempt to hide her real feelings.

Read the stanzas given below and answer the questions that follow each:

1. Driving from my parent’s home to Cochin last Friday

morning, I saw my mother, beside me,

doze, open mouthed, her face ashen like that

of a corpse and realized with pain that she was as old as she

looked but soon put that thought away, and looked out at young

trees sprinting, the merry children spilling out of their homes,

Questions:

A. Where was the poet driving to?

B. What did she notice while her mother sat beside her?

C. Why was her mother’s face like that of a corpse?

D. What did the poet do then?

E. Find words from the passage which mean:

i) felt ii) sleep lightly iii) dead body

but after the airport’s security check, standing a few yards

away, I looked again at her wan, pale as a late winter’s moon and felt that

old familiar ache, my childhood’s fear, but all said was, see you soon,

Amma, all i did was smile and smile…..

A) How were the young trees sprinting?

B) What did she see the children doing?

C) What is her childhood’s fear?

Short Answer Type Questions:

1. Where is the poet going and who is with her?

2. How does the poet’s mother look like? What kind of images has the poet used to signify her ageing decay?

3. Why does the poet ‘put that thought away’ and looks outside?

4. What does the poet see happening outside?

5. Describe the contrast of the scene inside the car with the activities going on outside. Describe the use of images that the poet employs to strike

Answer 2

Answer:

$this \: heavy \: load \: could \: not \: left \\ this \: heavy \: load....$

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