Class 12 English - Flamingo - Poetry - Chapter An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum NCERT Solutions | Tick the item which best answers the fol

What does the poet want for the children of the slums? How can their lives be made to change?

The walls of the classroom are decorated with the pictures of ‘Shakespeare’, ‘buildings with  domes’, ‘world maps’ and beautiful valleys. How do these contrast with the world of these children?

What do you think is the colour of ‘sour cream’? Why do you think the poet has used this expression to describe the classroom walls?

What does the title of the poem suggest to you? What do you think the poem is about?

What pleasure does a beautiful thing give us? Are beautiful things worth treasuring?

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

The city folk who drove through the countryside hardly paid any heed to the roadside stand or to the people who ran it. If at all they did, it was to complain. Which lines bring this out? What was their complaint about?

How do ‘denizens’ and ‘chivalric’ add to our understanding of the tiger’s attitudes?

Why are the young trees described as ‘sprinting’?

What was the plea of the folk who had put up the roadside stand?

Why do you think Aunt Jennifer’s hands are ‘fluttering through her wool’ in the second stanza? Why is she finding the needle so hard to pull?

Why has the poet brought in the image of the merry children ‘spilling out of their homes’?

The government and other social service agencies appear to help the poor rural people, but actually do them no good. Pick out the words and phrases that the poet uses to show their double standards.

What does the title of the poem suggest to you? What do you think the poem is about?

What is the ‘childish longing’ that the poet refers to? Why is it ‘vain’?

How do ‘denizens’ and ‘chivalric’ add to our understanding of the tiger’s attitudes?

Of what or of whom is Aunt Jennifer terrified with in the third stanza?

The city folk who drove through the countryside hardly paid any heed to the roadside stand or to the people who ran it. If at all they did, it was to complain. Which lines bring this out? What was their complaint about?

What makes human beings love life in spite of troubles and sufferings?

The government and other social service agencies appear to help the poor rural people, but actually do them no good. Pick out the words and phrases that the poet uses to show their double standards.

Why has the mother been compared to the ‘late winter’s moon’?

Why do you think Aunt Jennifer created animals that are so different from her own character? What might the poet be suggesting, through this difference?

Why is ‘grandeur’ associated with the ‘mighty dead’?