My mother at Sixty Six - Part 3

Day 1

9th April, 2020

My mother at Sixty Six - Part 3

Good Morning Gentlemen

A new day is here. Let us all thank God for keeping us and our families, safe and sound. How blessed we are to have our loved ones around. Oh God! You are wonderful. 

Moving ahead with today's content, we are going to cover the second part of question answers for this poem. 

Yesterday, you all did 6 short answer type questions along with 2 RTCs.

Today, you will have to do another set of 6 short questions and 2 more RTCs from the same poem. 

Before you do the questions, let us recall the learning objectives and life lesson of this poem. 

Learning Objectives

By the end of this poem, you will be able to:-

• Paraphrase the poem.
• Identify the poetic devices.
• Explain the theme of the poem.
• Relate the poet's experience with your own.

Life Lesson

• Appreciating the presence of parents in our lives.
• Being aware that they are aging with every passing day and they deserve all our love and affection.

You can continue from where you left yesterday. 

Q. Read the given questions and answer them in 30 - 40 words. 

Q.1 What does the poet mean by ‘all I did was smile and smile and smile…’?

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

Q.3 Why does the poet look outside? What does she observe?

Q.4  What were the activities that the poet saw outside the car window?

Q.5 What is the poet’s familiar ache and why does it return?

Q.6 What does Kamala Das do after the security check-up? What does she notice?

I hope you all have done these questions in your notebooks. 

You have two more RTCs given. Refer your textbooks and answer them. 

Reference to context. 

 1. but all I said was, see you soon, Amma,

all I did was smile and smile and smile…’

a) Why did the poet say, ‘see you soon, Amma’?

b) Why did the poet smile and smile?

c) ‘Smile and smile and smile’ is a poetic device. Identify it.

2. ……as a late winter’s moon and felt  that old

Familiar ache, my childhood’s fear

a) What has been compared to the late winter’s moon?

b) Why has the comparison been made?

c) Identify the poetic device in the line.

d) What is ‘familiar ache’ mentioned in this line?

  

Now that you have done all the question answers in your notebooks, you can revise the chapters done so far and relax for next 4 days as the school goes off for Easter break. And for those who are lagging behind, you can utilize these days in getting back on track and completing your pending work. 

Way to go boys. 

We will be back on 14th April, following day 2's timetable of the school. 

Kindly note that an online assessment will be conducted on 14th of this month. 

The assessment will be based on your reading skills. You will be marked for this assessment. 

Till then be safe, be grateful. 

God bless you all!