1. The child mentioned by the poet is...........
a) the poet's child b) a child on the roadside
c) the poet himself d) the singer's child
2. The poet had spent his Sundays...............
a) Playing games b) singing hymns c) sleeping d) weeping
3. What is the poet reminded of on hearing the woman's song?
The poet was transported to his childhood days when he used to sit on the pedal of the piano as his mother sang and played on it.4. What does the poet relish more - his manhood days or his childhood days?
The poet relishes his childhood days as conveyed on the poem.5. Identify the rhyme scheme of the poem?
The rhyme scheme is a a b b.6. Which tense is used frequently in the poem? What effect is brought out by this technique?
The present tense is used by the poet helps him relive those days of his past in his present days of maturity.7. Pick out two onomatopoeic words from the poem.
- the boom of the tingling strings- the tingling piano.
8. Pick out a line which contains an alliteration.
Alliteration is used in:-'And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.
9. '......my manhood is cast down in the flood of remembrance'.
The figure of speech in this line is .......... a) simile b) metaphor c) personification
Appreciation Questions
1. "Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;
Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see"
a) Who is the singer?
b) To whom does the 'woman' refer?
The woman refers to an unfamiliar singer.c) What does the word 'Vista' mean?
Vista means mental view of events.d) When is the woman singing to the young poet?
The woman is singing to the young poet in the dusk (sunset).e) To whom does the word 'me' refer?
'me' refers to the poet D.H.Lawrence.f) What is the woman doing?
The woman is singing a song.g) What impact does the woman's singing have on the poet?
Hearing the woman singing, the poet is at once transported down the memory lane to his childhood years.h) What does vista of years mean?
"Vista of years" means the memory lane.i) What is meant by 'vista of years'?
Vista of years meant happy incidents in the past (childhood) years.
2. "A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings
And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as sh sings"
a) Who is 'the child' referred to here?
b) Who is the child, sitting under the piano?
The poet is the child sitting under the piano.c) What emotion does the mother display?
The mother shows her happiness.d) Whom does 'she' refers to?
'She' refers to the poet's mother.e) What was the child doing?
The child was pressing his mother's feet with his tiny hands.f) What was the mother doing?
Mother smiled as she sang and played the piano.
3. "Inspite of myself, the insiduos mastery of song
Betrays me back, till the heart of me weeps to belong"
a) Whose heart weeps to belong to the past?
b) What does the phrase 'in spite of me' suggest?
The phrase suggests that though he has grown up and has matured, he cannot help surrending himself to the emotoins and sentiments brought about by his childhood memories.
4. "To the old sunday evenings at home, with winter outside
And hymns in the cosy parlour,
the tinkling piano our guide"
a) Describe the situation at home, then.?
b) Explain 'cosy parlour'?
Cosy is comfortable. Parlour is sitting room, So, it is Comfortable sitting room.c) Who is their guide?
The Piano.d) What are hymns?
Hymns are the songs in praise of God.e) Mention the things the poet is reminded of?
The poet recalls his Sunday evenings at home, the snowfall outside, his mother playing the piano and the hymns they sang in the parlour.f) Why was the parlour cosy?
It was comfortable in the parlour because it kept them warm. It protected them from the freezing winter winds that blew outside.
5. "Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast
Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past"
a) Who weeps like a child?
b) Who is the child in this poem?
The poet D.H.Lawrence is the child in this poem.c) Is the speaker a child or an adult?
The speaker is an adult.d) What does he weep for?
The poet D.H.Lawrence, weeps for his innocent childhood days.e) What do his childhood memories do to him even now?
The poet's childhood memories bring to him his happy days of the past.
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