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1.	Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :"but after the airport's security check, standing a few yards away,I looked again at her, wan,pale as a late winter's moon."(a) Where was the poet standing?(b) Who does 'her' refer to here? How did she look like?(c) Why does the narrator 'look at her again'?(d) Explain: " wan, pale as a late winter's moon."(e) Why has the poet’s mother been compared to ‘late winter’s moon’?(f) Why are the young trees described as sprinting?
Answer» (a) The poet was at the Cochin airport waiting to board the plane after the security check. (b) 'Her' here refers to the poet's mother. She was an aged lady and hence looked pale and colourless. (c) The narrator looked at her mother once again for the last time before she left to reassure herself about the well being of her mother. She had tried to drive away the pain she had felt on seeing her weak and aged mother. One last time she looked at her to wish her goodbye. (d) In this simile, the poet compares the mother's pale and withered face with the winter's moon. The moon seems to lose its brightness in the winter season as it is veiled behind fog and mist. The mother's face also seemed to have lost its radiance which was now misted by age. Winter symbolises death and the waning moon symbolises decay. (e) The poet’s mother has been compared to ‘late winter moon’ because she is looking pale and is fading like the winter’s moon. Her face is dull and colourless. (f) As the poet is with her mother in a speeding car and in order to distract her mind, she looks out of the car window and it is at this time that the young trees on the roadside seem to her as sprinting.

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :"but after the airport's security check, standing a few yards away,I looked again at her, wan,pale as a late winter's moon."(a) Where was the poet standing?(b) Who does 'her' refer to here? How did she look like?(c) Why does the narrator 'look at her again'?(d) Explain: " wan, pale as a late winter's moon."(e) Why has the poet’s mother been compared to ‘late winter’s moon’?(f) Why are the young trees described as sprinting?

Answer»

(a) The poet was at the Cochin airport waiting to board the plane after the security check.

(b) 'Her' here refers to the poet's mother. She was an aged lady and hence looked pale and colourless.

(c) The narrator looked at her mother once again for the last time before she left to reassure herself about the well being of her mother. She had tried to drive away the pain she had felt on seeing her weak and aged mother. One last time she looked at her to wish her goodbye.

(d) In this simile, the poet compares the mother's pale and withered face with the winter's moon. The moon seems to lose its brightness in the winter season as it is veiled behind fog and mist. The mother's face also seemed to have lost its radiance which was now misted by age. Winter symbolises death and the waning moon symbolises decay.

(e) The poet’s mother has been compared to ‘late winter moon’ because she is looking pale and is fading like the winter’s moon. Her face is dull and colourless.

(f) As the poet is with her mother in a speeding car and in order to distract her mind, she looks out of the car window and it is at this time that the young trees on the roadside seem to her as sprinting.

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