Question

UNDERSTANDING THE POEM
A Answer the following questions briefly.
1. Who is the speaker in the poem? What is she/he looking for in the shops?
2 What are the shops full of?
?
3 Describe some of the cards that the speaker sees in the shops
4 What is referred to by the words 'soft jingle-jangle'?
5. Why does the speaker feel that none of the cards are suitable? What kind of
card does she/he want?
6. Why do you think the speaker says 'me Mom' when the correct phrase is my
Mom"?
Most of the poems you have read have rhyming words at the end of each pair of
lines or alternate lines. But this poem doesn't have any rhyming words -- at least
not at the end of the lines,
Read the poem again and see if you can spot any pair of rhyming words.
Then, write them in your notebook.​

Answer 1

Answer:

UNDERSTANDING THE POEM

A Answer the following questions briefly.

1. Who is the speaker in the poem? What is she/he looking for in the shops?

2 What are the shops full of?

?

3 Describe some of the cards that the speaker sees in the shops

4 What is referred to by the words 'soft jingle-jangle'?

5. Why does the speaker feel that none of the cards are suitable? What kind of

card does she/he want?

6. Why do you think the speaker says 'me Mom' when the correct phrase is my

Mom"?

Most of the poems you have read have rhyming words at the end of each pair of

lines or alternate lines. But this poem doesn't have any rhyming words -- at least

not at the end of the lines,

Read the poem again and see if you can spot any pair of rhyming words.

Then, write them in your notebook.