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Q1 How do ‘denizens’ and ‘chivalric’ add to our understanding of the tiger’s attitudes? Ans: The tigers are the denizens of the forest and can be found only in forest and they lives very far from human settlements. They are considered as chivalric which means they are quite brave and fearless and king of the animal world. Therefore they have used denizens and chivalric for telling about the nature and attitude of tigers.
Q2 Why do you think Aunt Jennifer’s hands are ‘fluttering through her wool’ in the second stanza? Why is she finding the needle so hard to pull? Ans: Aunt Jennifer’s hands are fluttering due to her husband’s wedding ring which means that she is not happy in her marriage life and she is old and oppressed by her husband therefore she is finding an easy task of pulling needle difficult.
Q3 What is suggested by the image ‘massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band’? Ans: This lines signifies that she was not happy in her married life and had lots of burdens of responsibilities, duties.
Q4 Of what or of whom is Aunt Jennifer terrified with in the third stanza? Ans: Poet tells that even after the death of Aunt she will carry fear of domineering husband and the burden of her marriage with her wedding ring on her finger. She had oppressed by her husband and the sadness which will continue to terrify her.
Q5 What are the ‘ordeals’ Aunt Jennifer is surrounded by, why is it significant that the poet uses the word ‘ringed’? What are the meanings of the word ‘ringed’ in the poem? Ans: Aunt Jennifer was living with the authoritativeness of her husband which made her life very painful and sad. Therefore the poet used ordeals.
The poet used ringed which signifies that she is wearing her husband’s wedding ring and is very oppressed by her husband and the burden of the duties, responsibilities of her marriage.
Q6 Why do you think Aunt Jennifer created animals that are so different from her own character? What might the poet be suggesting, through this difference? Ans: Aunt Jennifer was full of fear and was timid but she created an opposite world of freedom and fearless tigers to express her suffering from freedom, and wants a medium of escape from her marriage.
Through this contrast the poet rises the situation of the women who has sinked in the duties and responsibilities of their family and completely lost their identity and individuality and lost their dreams.
Q7 Interpret the symbols found in this poem. Ans: Our expert will give the answer soon.
Q8 Do you sympathise with Aunt Jennifer. What is the attitude of the speaker towards Aunt Jennifer? Ans: Yes, the character of Aunt Jennifer got the sympathy of the reader. The speaker shows that after her death she would be still terrified of her husband and the ordeals or sadness or pain of her oppressed marriage life with a suppressed desire to be free and fell freedom.
Chapter 6 Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
The poem addresses the constraints of married life a women experiences. In the stanza1, Aunt Jennifer made some tigers prancing (jumping forward with confidence) on the screen of embroidery and they have bright marks on their body and running in jungle. They don’t fear of the men or hunters and smoothly runs there with bravery and confidence. In the stanza2, Aunt Jennifer’s fingers are shaking while embroidering and even finding difficult to pull ivory needle through the cloth. The task is difficult due to her husband’s heavy wedding ring which she is wearing in her finger here it symbolizes that her marriage is a burden for her and she is not happy with her marriage life which made her life miserable and she is not able to do such an easy work of pulling needle. And she wants to be like a tiger which symbolize bravery and fearlessness. In the stanza3, when Aunt will be dead at that time her terrified hand would be still ringed or she would be still surrounded by ordeals or bad experiences that she had gone through. And when she will die her tigers which she had made on the cloth will still move with bravery and fearlessly and proudly.
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What does the poet want for the children of the slums? How can their lives be made to change?
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Tick the item which best answers the following.
(a) The tall girl with her head weighed down means
The girl
(i) is ill and exhausted
(ii) has her head bent with shame
(iii) has untidy hair(b) The paper-seeming boy with rat’s eyes means
The boy is
(i) sly and secretive
(ii) thin, hungry and weak
(iii) unpleasant looking(c) The stunted, unlucky heir of twisted bones means
The boy
(i) has an inherited disability
(ii) was short and bony(d) His eyes live in a dream, A squirrel’s game, in the tree room other than this means
The boy is
(i) full of hope in the future
(ii) mentally ill
(iii) distracted from the lesson(e) The children’s faces are compared to ‘rootless weeds’
This means they
(i) are insecure
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Why has the mother been compared to the ‘late winter’s moon’?
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Why do you think Aunt Jennifer created animals that are so different from her own character? What might the poet be suggesting, through this difference?
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What do the parting words of the poet and her smile signify?
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Do you think the poet advocates total inactivity and death?
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What will counting upto twelve and keeping still help us achieve?
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What pleasure does a beautiful thing give us? Are beautiful things worth treasuring?
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The walls of the classroom are decorated with the pictures of ‘Shakespeare’, ‘buildings with domes’, ‘world maps’ and beautiful valleys. How do these contrast with the world of these children?
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Why do you think Aunt Jennifer’s hands are ‘fluttering through her wool’ in the second stanza? Why is she finding the needle so hard to pull?
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What are the ‘ordeals’ Aunt Jennifer is surrounded by, why is it significant that the poet uses the word ‘ringed’? What are the meanings of the word ‘ringed’ in the poem?
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