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  My mother at sixty six: 1.      What is the kind of pain and ache that the poet feels? Ans- The poet feels the old fear which she experienced it in her childhood. When she saw her mother pale face she knew that her end is near and she feels the exact pain and ache of separation which she felt it when she was a child. She notices that her mother is ageing and time spares none and time won’t spare her mother too. With the ageing separation and death also approaches. She fears of losing her mother and that emotional pain and ache the poet feels. 2.      Why are the young trees described as sprinting? Ans- Generally sprinting means running over a short distance at the top most speed. Here the tress are described as springing because of the fast moving car and tress outside seemed as if the tress are passing backward really in speed. The poet her also compares the fast moving young tress and her mother who was dozing, which shows her mot...

  LANDSCAPE OF THE SOUL : Understanding the text : 1. Contrast the Chinese view of art with the European view with example. Ans- Chinese art is imaginative and spiritual in nature, whereas European painting are based on actual views or real objects. European painters paints with delicate realism, they wants us to borrow his eyes and look at a particular landscape exactly as the painter saw it from a specific angle. Chinese painter does not choose a single viewpoint, here in Chinese the painter does not want to borrow his eyes instead enter his mind. The painting in  Chinese is an essence of inner life and sprit of Asia.  2. Explain the concept of Shanshui. Ans- Shanshui means the mountain water which together represent the word landscape. It explains the type of Chinese painting that incorporates natural landscape, spiritual spaces and conceptual spaces. It also reflects two opposing poles that represent the Daoist view of the universe. 3. what do you understand by the te...

A PHOTOGRAPH : 1.       1.  What does the word cardboard denote in the poem? Ans -   Generally a cardboard means a stiff and thick paper, but here the word denotes a part of the frame that displays the photograph of the poet’s mother and her two cousins Betty and Dolly safe and intact. 2.       2.  What has the camera captured? Ans- The camera captured all the memories of the three girls in it. It had captured the pretty face of the poet’s mother and the manner the two girls Betty and Dolly dressed themselves for the photograph to be taken on the beach.   3.       3.  What has no changed over the years? Ans- The sea did not change over the years, it is a symbol of eternity. The photograph and the memories have not changed in spite of the passage of changed time. The photograph was taken twenty thirty years ago, which signify the power nature holds and how helpless humans are in front of time and nature, wh...

  The Portrait of a Lady: Understanding the text- 1.     1.    The three phases of the author’s relationship with his grandmother before he left the country to study abroad. Ans-   The three phases of the author’s relationship with his grandmother before he left the country to study abroad are: a)      Childhood- The author spent most of his childhood time with his grandmother. She use to wake him up in the morning, help him get ready for school while reciting her morning prayers in a monotonous sing song manner in the hope that he would learn the prayers by heart. b.     Teenage    - At this stage the author along with his grandmother had shifted to the city. Now the boy goes to an English school in a motor bus and this was the stage where his grandmother could not help him in his studies anymore. c.       Adult  - In the third stage of his life the author says that the relationship of...