Don't bite your nails, Amanda ! Don't hunch your shoulders, Amanda ! Stop that slouching and sit up straight, Amanda ! (There is a languid, emerald sea, where the sole inhabitant is me - a mermaid, drifting blissfully.) Questions: Q.1. How many voices are there in the lines ? Q.2. Who do you think are the speakers ? Q.3. What emotion is experienced by the mermaid ?

Don't bite your nails, Amanda ! Don't hunch your shoulders, Amand…

“But I can get a hair-dye
And set such colour there,
Brown, or black, or carrot,
That young men in despair
May love me for myself alone
And not my yellow hair.”Questions:
$Q.1$. Why does the girl want to dye her hair with different colours ?
$Q.2$. What will happen if the girl dyes her hair with different colours?
$Q.3$. What does the girl finally want the young men to do ?

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He is learning, well behind his desperate eyes,
The epistemology of loss, how to stand up
Knowing what every man must one day know
And most know many days, how to s stand up.Questions:
$Q.1$. What is the boy learning ?
$Q.2$. Why are the boy’s eyes desperate ?
$Q.3$. What do you mean by ‘epistemology { of loss’?

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An ultimate shaking grief fixes the boy
As he stands rigid, trembling, staring down
All his young days into the harbour where
His ball went. I would not intrude on him,
A dime, another ball, is worthless.Questions:
$Q.1$. Explain ‘An ultimate shaking grief fixes the boy’.
$Q.2$. How has the loss affected the boy ?
$Q.3$. What, according to the poet, is ‘worthless’ ?

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“I heard an old religious man
But yesternight declare
That he had found a text to prove
That only God, my dear,
Could love you for yourself alone
And not your yellow hair.”Questions:
$Q.1$. For whom does ‘I’ stand for in this stanza ?
$Q.2$. What did the religious-minded man tell the poet?
$Q.3$. What compliment is paid to Anne in this last stanza?

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Some say the world will end in fire Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favour fire.
Questions:
$Q.1$. What is The poet’s opinion about the world ?
$Q.2$. What is the contradictory opinion of public ?
$Q.3$. How are ice and fire similar to each other though they have contradictory traits ?

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If ever you should go by chance
To jungles in the east;
And if there should to you advance
A large and tawny beast,
If he roars at you as you're dyin
You'll know it is the Asian lion....
Question A
Where is the jungle as per the poem ?
What is the specialty of the Asian lion, according to the poet ?
How is the beast as per the poet?

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All night the roots work
to disengage themselves from the cracks
in the veranda floor.
The leaves strain toward the glass,
small twigs stiff with exertion,
long-cramped boughs shuffling under the roof
like newly discharged patients
half-dazed, moving
to the clinic doors.Questions:
$Q.1$. What do the roots of the trees do all night ?
$Q.2$. What are being compared to newly discharged patients ? Why are they so compared ?
$Q.3$. Pick out the words from the stanza which reveal the agony of the trees.

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Did you finish your homework, Amanda ?
Did you tidy your room, Amanda?
I thought I told you to clean your shoes, Amanda!
(I am an orphan, roaming the street,
I pattern soft dust with my hushed, bare feet.
The silence is golden, the freedom is sweet.)Questions:
$Q.1$. What, do you think, is irritating for Amanda in the first stanza?
$Q.2$. Here silence is golden. How come ?
$Q.3$. What poetic device is used in this stanza?

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Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.Questions:
$Q.1$. Who is ‘I’ in the passage ?
$Q.2$. Explain ‘A change of mood’.
$Q.3$. What did the poet say about the change of mood?

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If, when you’re walking round your yard
You meet a creature there,
Who hugs you very, very hard,
Be sure it is a Bear,
If you have any doubts, I guess
He’ll give you just one more caress.Questions:
$Q.1$. Who is going to hug you ?
$Q.2$. What is the synonym of ‘hug’ ?
$Q.3$. Where can a bear be found ?

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