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    The poet was driving from her parents' home to Cochin with her mother sitting beside her. She noticed that her mother had dozed off with her mouth open, and her face looked ashen like a corpse. This realization pained the poet as it made her aware of how old her mother had become. Later at the airport during a security check, the poet again looked at her mother and saw that she looked pale and wan like a late winter's moon, bringing back childhood fears. The poet hid her sadness by smiling and saying goodbye to her mother.

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    The poet was driving from her parents' home to Cochin with her mother sitting beside her. She noticed that her mother had dozed off with her mouth open, and her face looked ashen like a corpse. This realization pained the poet as it made her aware of how old her mother had become. Later at the airport during a security check, the poet again looked at her mother and saw that she looked pale and wan like a late winter's moon, bringing back childhood fears. The poet hid her sadness by smiling and saying goodbye to her mother.

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    The poet was driving from her parents' home to Cochin with her mother sitting beside her. She noticed that her mother had dozed off with her mouth open, and her face looked ashen like a corpse. This realization pained the poet as it made her aware of how old her mother had become. Later at the airport during a security check, the poet again looked at her mother and saw that she looked pale and wan like a late winter's moon, bringing back childhood fears. The poet hid her sadness by smiling and saying goodbye to her mother.

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    My mother at 66

    1. “Driving from my parents


    home to Cochin last Friday
    morning, I saw my mother,
    beside me,
    doze, open mouthed, her face
    ashen like that of a corpse and
    realised with pain
    that she was as old as she looked “

    (a) Where was the poet driving to? Who was sitting beside her?
    (b) What did the poet notice inside the car?
    (c) Why did her mother’s face look like that of a corpse?
    (d) Find words from the passage which mean:
    (i) sleep lightly (ii) dead body (iii) felt.
    (e) Name the poem and the poet.
    (f) What worried the poet when she looked at her mother?
    (g) Why was there pain in her realization?

    2. ”...............She
    looked but soon
    put that thought away, and
    looked out at young
    trees sprinting, the merry children spilling
    out of their homes,”

    (a) Which thought did the poet drive away from her mind?
    (b) What do the ‘sprinting trees’ signify?
    (c) What did she see in the world outside?
    (d) How do you know that the joyful scene didn’t help her drive away the
    painful thought from her mind?
    (e) What are ‘the merry children spilling out of their homes’, symbolic of?
    (f) (Find words from the passage which mean:
    (i) running fast (ii) happy (iii) moving out.

    3) “ but after the airport’s


    security check, standing a few yards
    away, I looked again at her, wan
    pale
    as a late winter’s moon”

    (a) Who is “her” in these lines?


    (b) Who was the poet looking at?
    (c) Who looked pale and wan and why?
    (d) Identify the figure of speech used in these lines
    4) “.....and felt that old
    familiar ache, my childhood’s fear,
    but all I said was, see you soon, Amma,
    all I did was smile and smile and smile ......”

    (a) What was the childhood fear that now troubled the poet?
    (b) What was the speaker’s familiar ache?
    (c) What do the poet’s parting words suggest?
    (d) Why did the poet smile and smile?
    (e) Explain “pale as a late winter’s moon”.
    (f) Name the poetic device used in these lines.

    5.Whenever we face problems in our lives, we go to


    our mother for a second opinion. We confide in her as for most
    of us she is our best friend. What emotional bond do you share
    with your mother?

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