Great Grandmother
I. Answer the following questions in .two or 3 sentences each.
1.What has happened to the photograph? Why?
Answer:The photograph is yellowing and misted over by time.
2.What expression does the poet read in the
eyes of his great grandmother?
Answer:Her eyes are stem but they can laugh too.
3.Describe the poet’s great grandmother as
she appears in the photograph.
Answer:Her looks are frank and serious. Her eyes are stem. Her hair is pulled
back tightly in a bun. She wears no jewelry. She wears a black dress.
4.Did the poet know her personally? Why? Which
line suggests this?
Answer:No, the poet didn’t know her personally because he was bom after her
death. I never knew her, Yet I recognize myself her three generations
later-these lines tell that the poet did not know her personally.
5.‘She looks out at me’ – what does this
opening line of the poem mean?
Answer:The poet feels that his grandmother is looking out at him. i.e., She is
seeking him
6.Pick out the word from the poem which means
that the photograph is old?
Answer:Yellowing misted on and by time, these words tell that the photograph is
old.
7.What were the feelings that the poet
experienced when he looked at the photograph of his great grandmother?
Answer:The poet felt that “may my great-grandchildren feel as close to me as I
now do to her”.
8.What feelings/thoughts run in the poet’s
mind as he looks at the photograph of his great grandmother?
Answer:The poet feels that his grandmother is looking out at him. He feels
close to her, though he never knew her. He is able to recognize himself in her.
He wishes that may his great-grandchildren feel as close to him as he then did
to his own grandmother.
9.What picture do you get about the great grandmother
of the poet.
Answer:We come to know that the grandmother had a frant and serious look. Her
eyes are stem but they could laugh too. Her hair is pulled back in a tight bun.
She is wearing a black dress and wears no Jewelry.
II Read the Context:-
1.”Yet I recongnize myself in her, three
generations later’”
a.What does the word ‘recognize’ mean in this context?
Answer:The word ’recognize’ means understand and identify himself with his
grandmother.
b.Explain the term ‘three generations’ Poet –
First generation
Answer:Poet’s Children – Second generation Poet’s grandchildren – Third generation
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