CBSE Class 7 English Mother Worksheet

CLASS VII ENGLISH

MOTHER

Reference to Context:-

Q1. ‘I have no memory of it

        looking back

        These ages of time

         Robust in my youth

         I now wonder

         What was milled

         my mother

         Or the grain.’

    (i) Who is ‘I’ in the above lines?

   (ii) Whose youth is being referred to?

  (iii) Why does the narrator wonder – ‘What was milled- my mother or the grain’?

  (iv) From which poem are these lines taken?

   (v) Name the poet.

Q2. ‘Up before the sun

        each day

        Churning butter

        Milling grain

        While I lay lulled

        by rhythms

        she worked each step

        of her destiny, locked

        within the halo of praise

        Did she ever sleep?’

    (i) Who is ‘I’ in the above lines?

   (ii) What does ‘she’ stand for?

  (iii) What work did she do?

  (iv) What did the narrator do in the above lines?

   (v) Why does the narrator think – ‘Did she ever sleep’?