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?
The pictures of ‘shakespeare’ on the walls reflect that they would be getting good and quality education but in reality there was nothing like that. Children were living in the slum. They get half education. The buildings with domes reflect the civilized world which is unknown to them. The world map has no meaning to them because of slum, this world map shows here that history is only created by rich and powerful people not by slum people. The beautiful valley is meaningless to them as they can only see the polluted sky through the broken window panes and shows their dark future.
Popular Questions of Class 12 English - Flamingo - Poetry
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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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What is the kind of pain and ache that the poet feels?
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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
(ii) are ill-fed
(iii) are wasters - Q:-
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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Why has the poet brought in the image of the merry children ‘spilling out of their homes’?
Recently Viewed Questions of Class 12 English - Flamingo - Poetry
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Do you think the poet advocates total inactivity and death?
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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 is the ‘childish longing’ that the poet refers to? Why is it ‘vain’?
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Why has the mother been compared to the ‘late winter’s moon’?
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Of what or of whom is Aunt Jennifer terrified with in the third stanza?
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What was the plea of the folk who had put up the roadside stand?
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Do you sympathise with Aunt Jennifer. What is the attitude of the speaker towards Aunt Jennifer?
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Why has the poet brought in the image of the merry children ‘spilling out of their homes’?
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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
(ii) are ill-fed
(iii) are wasters - Q:-
What do the parting words of the poet and her smile signify?
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