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Read the following poems carefully and answer the questions given below them :Silver star,O will you be my mother,Will you stay with meAnd kiss me in the black night when I cry?Laughing wind,I want you for a brother,Will you play with meAnd tell me stories of the sea and the sky?Sometimes, O wind,You know I am lonelyO star, I am afraidOf sounds and creeping shadows on the wall.God, they say,Loves little children, only1 wish that he had madeSomeone to love me and hear me call.Birds and bees.And flowers have one another.The lambkin and the larkThe grey mouse and the squirrel and the deer…Does God forgetHow much I want a motherTo hold me in the darkAnd whisper lovely secrets in my ear?(1) What does the child ask from the silver star?(2) What does the child request the wind?(3) What is the child afraid of?(4) What is the tone of the poem? |
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Answer» 1. The child asks the silver star to be his mother. He wants to stay with her and wishes that she kisses him when he cries in the dark night. 2. The child requests the wind to be his brother. He wants him to play with him and tell him the stories of the sea and the sky. 3. The child is afraid of the sounds made by the wind and of the creeping shadows on the wall created by the light of stars. 4. The poem has a tragic and sad tone. The child craves for the love of his mother and pleads to God to bless him with mother. His mother would whisper lovely secrets in his ear and take care of him. |
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