MY MOTHER AT SIXTY SIX

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 Q.1) Why does the poet compare her mother's face to a late winter's moon ?
= How the late winter's moon lacks of brightness and colour, the poets mothers face was colourless and lack of brightness. It was just pale and wane and looked lifeless. So, the poet compared her mother's face to a late winter's moon.

Q.2)What was the poet's childhood fear ?
= The poet's childhood fear was of losing her mother accidently.

Q.3) What did the poet do after the security check ?
= After the security check, the speaker stood a few yards away from her mother and looked at her pale and wan face.

Q.4) Where was the poet driving to ? What did she notice when her mother sat beside her ?
= The poet was driving to the Cochin airport from her parents house.
         She noticed her mother dozing with her mouth open and her face looked like that of a corpse.

Q.5) Why did the poet smile and smile ?
= At the parting time the poet could do nothing for her mother but smile and smile. She only smiled and smiled just to hide her emotions and to console herself and her mother that she would return to her soon.

Q.6) Why was the poet's mother's face like that of a corpse ?
= The poet's mother's face was like that of a corpse because it had lost its colour. It looked lifeless. It was just pale and wan.

Q. 7) Why are the young trees described as 'sprinting' ?
= The poet describes the young trees as 'sprinting' to symbolise the passing of time of human life from childhood to old age. The sprinting trees is contrasted with the approaching death of the poet's mother.

Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow.

Driving to my parent's 
home to Cochin last Friday
morning, I saw my mother,
beside me,
doze, open mouthed, her face
ashen like that
of a corpse......"

Questions:-

a) Name the poem of this above line.
= The name of the poem of these above lines is " My mother at sixty six " .

b) What did the poet notice when her mother sat beside her ?
= When the poet's mother sat beside her, she noticed her dozing motionlessly with her mouth open and her face looked like that of a corpse.

c) Where was the poet driving to ?
= The poet was driving to the Cochin airport from her parent's home.
 
d) Find words from the passage that mean 'sleep lightly' and 'dead body' .
= In the passage the word 'doze' mean 'sleep lightly' and the word ' corpse' mean ' dead body '.

e) Why was her mother's face like that of a corpse ?
= The poet's mother's face was like that of a corpse because it had lost its colour. It looked lifeless. It was just pale and wan.

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