CBSE Class 12 English Sure Shot Questions Flamingo Poetry Assignment

CBSE Class 12 English Sure Shot Questions Flamingo Poetry Assignment. Students are advised to refer to the attached assignments and practice them regularly. This will help them to identify their weak areas and will help them to score better in examination. Parents should download and give the assignments to their children for practice.

POEM. 1 MY MOTHER AT SIXTY SIX by KAMALA DAS

1. What is the kind of pain and ache that the poet feels?

2. Why does the poet draw the image of sprinting trees and merry children?

3. What is the significance of the parting words of the poet and her smile, in My Mother at Sixty six?

POEM-2 AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLASSROOM IN A SLUM -BY STEPHEN SPENDER

4. The poet presents two different worlds. What are they?

5. Why does Spender call Shakespeare wicked and the map a bad example?

6. What is the theme of the poem?

POEM-3 KEEPING QUIET - BY PABLO NERUDA

7. Why does Pablo Neruda urge us to keep still?

8. How does the poet distinguish ‘stillness’ from ‘total inactivity’? Explain.

9. According to Pablo Neruda, what is it that human beings can learn from Nature?

POEM-4 A THING OF BEAUTY By JOHN KEATS

10. What is the special virtue of a beautiful thing?

11. Why doesn’t a beautiful thing ‘pass into nothingness’?

12. What is the message of the poem/what philosophy of life is highlighted in the poem?

POEM-5: AUNT JENNIFER’S TIGERS By ADRIENNE RICH

13. What do the tigers made by the Aunt symbolize?

14. What do you understand by “massive weight of uncle’s wedding band”?

15. Interpret the symbols found in the poem „Aunt Jennifer‟s Tigers‟

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