JKBOSE Class 9 English Tulip Poetry Chapter 5 I Cannot Remember My Mother Solution
JKBOSE (Jammu Kashmir State Board Of School Education) Class 9 English Solution Chapter 5 I Cannot Remember My Mother all Exercise Question Answers. Students of JK Board Grade 9 Standard can download all Answer.
I CANNOT REMEMBER MY MOTHER
Understanding the Poem
1.) What is the poet doing when he remembers his mother?
Answer: When the poet is in the middle of the play, he remembers his mother for the first time. The next time the poet remembers his mother was the time he smelt the scent of the flower that his mother used to offer in the temple. Then finally the poet remembers his mother at the time of gazing at the sky the way his mother used to gaze at him.
2.) In what ways does the poet feel the presence of his mother?
Answer: The poet feels the presence of his mother in tunes of some songs, in the smell of the shiuli flowers and in the stillness of the sky that gazes at him.
3.) What does the poet hear when he is at play?
Answer: When the poet is at play, he hears the tune of some song that she used to hum while rocking his cradle.
4.) What word do we use for the cradle song?
Answer: ‘Lullaby’ is the word for the cradle song.
5.) Is the poet’s mother dead or alive? How do you come to know about it?
Answer: The poet’s mother is dead. We come to know this from the fact that the poet remembers his mother in most of his life’s situations. We deeply miss someone when he/she is far away or dead.
6.) What sights and smells remind the poet of his mother?
Answer: The stillness of the distant blue sky and the scent of the shiurli flowers remind the poet of his mother.
7.) What are the feelings that this poem arouses in you?
Answer: This poem arouses of deep love for mothers. It shows how one misses one’s mother when she is away. The poem arouses the feeling of love and remembrance of mother.
Learning about the literary devices
1.) Imagery: imagery gives sensory impressions and lends clarity to a poem. In this poem the poet creates beautiful images that relate to sight, sound and smell.
Pick out the visual and aural images related to smell which appeal to our senses directly.
Answer: The smell of shiuli flowers floats in the air,
I feel that the stillness of my mother’s gaze on my face has spread all over the sky.
2.) The poem does not have a rhyme scheme or a fixed length for each line. Did you enjoy the poem? If yes, why?
Answer: Yes, I did enjoy the poem. This poem took me back to the memory lane where my mother and I would spend time together and she would feed me food with affection and love.
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