MP Board 12th English Short Answer Questions Flamingo Poetry Question Bank

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Short Answer Questions- Flamingo (Poetry)

My Mother at Sixty-Six

1. What is the kind of pain and ache that the poet feels?
2. Why are the young trees described as ‘sprinting’?
3. Why has the poet brought in the image of the merry children ‘spilling out of their homes’?
4. Why has the mother been compared to the ‘late winter’s moon’?
5. What do the parting words of the poet and her smile signify?
6. What were the poet’s feelings at the airport? How did she hide them?
7. How does the poet try to put away the thoughts of her ageing mother while
   driving to Kochi airport?
   
8. Keeping Quiet

1. Do you think the poet advocates total inactivity and death?
2. What is the ‘sadness’ that the poet refers to in the poem?
3. What symbol from Nature does the poet invoke to say that there can be life under apparent stillness?
4. How would keeping quiet affect the life in and around the sea?
5. ‘Life is what it is about; How is keeping quiet related to life?
6. Why does one feel ‘a sudden strangeness’ on counting to twelve and keeping quiet?
7. How will ‘keeping quiet’ protect our environment?
8. What does the poet want us to tell?
9. What does the poet mean by saying ‘victory with no survivors?
10. What are the different types of wars mentioned in the poem?
    or
11. What is Neruda’s attitude towards these wars?
    
12. A Thing of Beauty

1. What pleasure does a beautiful thing give us?
2. Are beautiful things worth treasuring?
3. What image does the poet use to describe the beautiful bounty of the earth?
4. Why is ‘grandeur’ associated with the ‘mighty dead’?
5. How long do we experience things of beauty?
6. List the things that cause suffering and pain.
   
7. A Road Side Stand

1. Why does the poet call the car selfish?
2. What was the plea of the folk who had put up the roadside stand?
3. Have you ever stopped at a roadside stand? What have you observed there?
4. What is the ‘childish longing’ that the poet refers to? Why is it ‘vain’?
5. Which lines tell us about the insufferable pain that the poet feels at the
   thought of the plight of the rural poor?
6. What was the request made by the rural people who had put up the roadside stand?
7. What did the sign offer?
8. Why did the farmers curse wealthy city people?
9. Why has a new shed been put up at the road side stand?
10. How did the good-doers want to help the poor village people?
11. What is meant by polished traffic?
12. Why was the road side stand in a miserable condition?
13. What did the country people complain?
14. What is the demand of the roadside stand?
15. What attitude does the polished traffic show?
16. What is sold by the roadside sellers?
    
17. Aunt Jennifer’s Tiger

1. How do ’denizens’ and ‘chivalric’ add to our understanding of the tiger’s attitude?
2. Of what or of whom is Aunt Jennifer terrified with?
3. Why are the tigers called Aunt Jennifer’s tigers?
4. What does wedding band stand for?
5. What is the result of fluttering?
6. Why are the tigers not afraid of men?
7. What does the tiger symbolize in the poem?
8. How are Aunt Jennifer’s tigers described?
9. What is Aunt Jennifer doing with her wool?
10. What is Aunt Jennifer’s state of mind?