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Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow :I do not understand this childThough we have lived together nowIn the same house for years. I knowNothing of him, so try to buildup a relationship from howHe was when small.Yet have I killedThe seed I spent or sown it whereThe land is his and none of mine?We speak like strangers, there’s no signOf understanding in the air.This child is built to my designYet what he loves I cannot share.Silence surrounds us. I would haveHim prodigal, returning toHis father’s house, the home he knew,Rather than see him make and moveHis world.[This poem is about generation gap. Here the father feels a kind of distance or gap between his son and himself. He wishes to be closer to his son. He wants to remove this gap. But both of them have their own worlds and thus they never come closer to each other.]1. What does the father mean when he says, “I know nothing of him.”?2. What type of relation does the father want to build?3. What do the ‘seed’ and ‘land’ stand for?4. What is missing between the father and the son?5. What does “silence surrounds us” mean?

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1. The father means that he doesn’t know about the views, likes and dislikes of his son.

2. The father wants to build the relationship with his son as it was when the son was quite young.

3. “Seed stands for the teachings of the father and the ‘land’ stands for the mind of the son.

4. Mutual understanding is missing between the father and the son.

5. It means that the father and the son don’t share their feelings with each other.



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