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Read the following extract and answer the following questions briefly:When aunt is dead, her terrified hands will lieStill ringed with ordeals she was mastered by.The tigers in the panel that she made Will go on prancing, proud and unafraid.(i) Name the poem and the poet of the above stanza.(ii) What lies in store for the Aunt? (iii) Explain" ringed with ordeals‟.(iv) Identify and name the poetic device used in the last line of the above stanza. |
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Answer» (a) Poem- Aunt Jennifer's Tiger, Poet- Adrienne Rich (b) Would die as an oppressed and subdued woman / will remain caught in the ordeals of her marriage till her death (c) surrounded by problems of her married life/wedding ring symbolizes weight of her marriage and ringed also means chained (d) 'prancing, proud'- alliteration |
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