Answer the following questions:

(a) Why do you think the poet does not remember his mother?

(b) How old is the poet at the time of his mother’s death? Give reasons to support your answer.

(c) Explain the following expressions:

(i) Only sometimes in the midst of my play a tune seems to hover over my playthings.

(ii) I feel that the stillness of my mother’s gaze on my face has spread all over the sky.

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Solution

(a) The poet does not remember his mother because he was estranged from her while he was very young.

(b) The poet was a small child at the time of his mother’s death. We can infer this from a reference to his playthings which evoke the memory of his mother.

(c) (i) When the poet is playing with his toys, he can recollect a tune sung sometime in the past.

(ii) The stillness of the sky is like the expression on the poet’s mother’s face when she looked at him.

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Read the lines given below and answer the following questions:

(a) I cannot remember my mother

only sometimes is the midst of my play

a tune seems to hover over my playthings,

(i) What is the poet doing when he remembers his mother?

(ii) What reminds him of her?

(iii) When did his mother hum that song?

(b) When in the early autumn morning

the smell of shiuli flowers floats in the air

the scent of the morning service in the temple

comes to me as the scent of my mother.

(i) What happens in autumn which reminds the poet of his mother?

(ii) What do you think the poet’s mother did with the shiuli flowers?

(iii) What do you think would constitute “the scent of the morning service in the temple”?

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