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My Mother at Sixty-SIX
--Kamala Das
About the poet: Kamala Das was born in Punnayurkulam, Thrissur District in Kerala, on March
31, 1934, to V. M. Nair, former managing director of a widely-circulated
Malayalam daily. Her mother was also a renowned Malayali poetess. Like her
mother, Kamala Das also excelled in writing. Her love of poetry began at an
early age though the influence of her great uncle, Nalappatt Narayana Menon, a
prominent writer. However, she did not start writing professionally until she
got married and became a mother.
Kamala wished to begin
writing, her husband supported her decision to augment the family's income. She
would often wait yntil nightfall after her family had gone to sleep and would
write until morning: "There was only the kitchen table where i would cut
vegetables, and after all the plates and things were cleared, I would sit there
and start typing ". This rigorous schedule took it tool upon her health..
At the age 42, she published
her autobiography, My Story, which was later translated into many foreign
languages. Her works are available in French, Spanish, Russia, German and
Japanese.
On 31 May 2009, aged 75, she
died at a hospital in Pune.
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Summary of My Mother At Sixty-Six: A poignant of a daughter’s
feelings at the realization that her mother was ageing and inching close to
death, ‘My Mother at Sixty-six’ carries a Universal appeal. The poet was in a
car along with her Sixty-Six years old mother, on her way to Cochin airport
from her parent’s house. The old Lady dozed off with her mouth open. The poet
notice her face that had grown pale as that of a corpse and the painful truth
surfaced in her mind that her mother was very old. She tried to shift her
thoughts away from the sad sight and gazed outside at the green trees and
little children running out of their house. But once again, at the airport, the
poet looked at her mother’s pale visage which seemed faded like a late winter’s
moon. A familiar ache which she had experienced since childhood, pierced though
her heart. It was the fear of losing her
mother that painfully haunted her. Yet, putting on a brave front and hiding the
fear behind a smile, she bid her mother goodbye with the words ‘See you soon,
Amma’
My Mother At Sixty-Six NCERT Solutions:
TEXTUAL QUESTION &
ANSWER:
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1.What is the kind of pain and ache that the poet feels? ***
Ans: It is a kind of pain that
the poet Kamala das has entertained
since her childhood. This is the fear of decay and death that spare none
with ageing separation and become unavoidable.
2. Why are the young tress described as ‘sprinting’? ***
Ans: Whenever we travel by a
fast running vehicle the standing objects appear to be running fast. So the
trees are described in that way they provide a stark contrast to the passive
old leady sitting inside the car.
3.Why has the poet brought in the image of the merry children ‘ spilling out
of their homes’? ***
Ans: The poet brought the image
into enhance the poetic effect. Her mother is lifeless passive and pale.
On the other hand outside
the car the would is full of moment life and happiness. The joy us children coming
out in large number are contrasting to the sad lifeless painful, instance of
poet mother.
4.Why has the mother been compared to the ‘late winter’s moon’? ***
Ans: The poet kamala das mother’s
face is pall like ask. It has last all the brightness and power like the moon
of the late winter so, she had been compound to that.
5.What do the parting words of the poet her smile signify? **
Or
What do the poet parting words suggest?
Ans: When the poet Kamala Das
feels the familiar fear of death and decay of her children. She understand that
with ageing separation and death are unavailable, They spare none. Therefore
one day her mother will also die. To hide this fear inevitable separation she
bids goodbye to her mother with smiles.
My Mother At Sixty-Six important Question and Answer:
ADDDITIONAL QUESTION &
ANSWER
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1.What do that young Sprinting trees signify? ***
Ans: The young sprinting trees
signify powerful alien of the youth.
2.What was the childhood fear that now troubled the poet? **
Ans: The childhood fear that
troubled the poet now was that her Mother was growing sick and old. She was
fearful for her health.
3.Why did the poet smile and smile? ***
Ans: The poet smile and smile
only because she wanted to hide her fears from her mother.
4.What did to the speaker do after the security check? **
Ans: After the security check
the poet stood a few yards away and looked at her mother again.
5.Who looked out of the young tree? **
Ans: The poet looked out of the
young tree.
6.Which thought did the speaker put away? **
Ans: The poet put the thought
their ageing and decaying mother away from her mind. Her corpse like ashen face
reminded her of mother approaching
death.
7.Where was the poet driving to? ***
Ans: The poet was driving from
her parent home to Cochin airport’
8.What did the poet notice when her mother at sit beside her? ***
Ans: When her mother’s sit
beside her the poet noticed that her Mother was dozing with her mouth open.
9.Explain the statement -“I saw my mother”? ***
Ans: The poet Kamala das was
driving her car to Cochin airport from her parent home. Her mother was by her,
she looked at her mouth mother face she was dozing. Her faces look pale like
ask and lifeless like a dead body. It pained the poet.
10.Fine out the words from the poem which means sleep lightly, and bead body?
**
Ans: Sleep lightly - Doze
Dead body – Corpse
11.Why is mother’s face like that of a corpse? ***
Ans: The poet mother’s face it
almost like that of corpse because she has lost her young energy and freshness.
12.What are the merry children spilling out if their homes symbolic? **
Ans: The merry children
spilling out of their home is symbolic of young energy and passion.
13.Who looked out at the young tree from the car and why? **
Ans: The poet Kamala Das looked
out at the young tree from the car because she wanted to overcome her pain.
14.What are the images used by poet to signify the ageing of her mother? **
Ans: the used of
image in the poem appropriate that we can visualise the picture as clearly as
the poet had seen. The pale face is described as ‘ashen like that of a corpse’ and
her appearance as ‘a late winter’s moon’. To bring out the contrast, she
describes the younger side of life as ‘Young Trees sprinting and merry children
spilling out, of their homes’ highlighting the image of actively as against the
frail passivity of her mother.
15.How does the poet present the contrast between the worlds that exist in the
car and outside it? **
Ans: in the car,
seated beside the poet was her ageing mother, pale and weak, inching gradually
towards death. Disturbed by the thought, the poet looked outside the window
which offered a contrast in a picture of life and youthfulness. The trees were
young and seemed to run away at a speed while little children merrily rushed
out of their homes.
16.What was the poet’s childhood fear? ***
Ans: the poet had a
fear since her childhood days that one day she would lose her mother. She could
not reconcile with the thought and it always haunted her.
17.What do the sprinting trees symbolise? ***
Ans: the sprinting
trees are a symbol of life, of youthfulness and vitality. The young green trees
seemed to run away as they sped towards the airport.
18.Does the poem appeal to you? In what way? **
Ans: [Students shall
give personal options on this]
My Mother At Sixty-Six Previous year question
(most important question)
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2012YEAR
1.“Driving from my parent’s
home to Cochin last Friday
morning, I saw my mother,
beside me,
doze open mouthed, her face
ashen like that
of a corpse.....”
(A)Where was the poet driving to? (1 marks)
(B)What did she notice when her
mother sat beside her? (1 marks)
(C)Find words from the passage
that mean ‘sleep lightly’ and ‘death body’. (1
marks)
(D)Why was her mother’s face like that a corpse? (1
marks)
2.Why has the mother been compared to the ‘late winter’s moon’? (2 marks).
2013 YEAR
1.Why has the poet brought in the
image of the merry children ‘spilling out of the homes? (2 mark)
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2014 YEAR
1.“but after the airport’s
Security check, standing a few yards
Away, I looked again at her, wan, pale
As a late winter’s moon and felt that old
Familiar ache, my childhood’s fear,
But all I said was, see you son, Amma,
All I did was smile and smile and smile.......”
(A)What did the speaker do after
the security check? (1 marks)
(B)Why did the poet compare her mother’s face to a late winter’s moon? (1 marks)
(C)What was the poet’s childhood fear? (1 marks)
1.What is the kind of pain and
ache that the poet’s feel? (2 marks).
2.Explain the statement: “I saw my mother....her face ashen like that of a
corpse”. (2 marks).
2015 YEAR
1.“.......and felt that old
Familiar ache, my childhood’s fear,
But all I said was, see you soon, Amma,
All I did was smile and smile and smile......”
(A)What was the childhood fear
that now troubled the poet? (1 marks)
(B)What do the poet’s parting words
suggest? (1 marks)
(C)Why did the poet smile and
smile? (1 marks)
2.Why has the mother been compare with the ‘late winter moon’? (2 mark)
2016 YEAR
1.Why has the poet brought in the image of the merry children ‘spilling out
of the homes? (2 marks).
2017 YEAR
1.What do the young sprinting trees signify? (2
marks).
2.Why has the mother been compare
with the ‘late winter moon’? (2 marks).
2018 YEAR
1.What are the ‘merry children spilling out of their homes’ symbolic of? (2 marks).
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2019 YEAR
1.“Driving from my parent’s
home to Cochin last Friday
morning, I saw my mother,
beside me,
doze open mouthed, her face
ashen like that
of a corpse.....”
(E)Where was the poet driving to? (1 marks)
(F)What did she notice when her
mother sat beside her? (1 marks)
(G)Find words from the passage that mean ‘sleep lightly’ and ‘death body’. (1 marks)
(H)Why was her mother’s face like that a corpse? (1
marks)
2.What is the significance of the
parting words of the speaker and her smile in ‘My Mother at Sixty-Six’? (2 marks).
2020 YEAR
1.What do you young sprinting trees signify in the poem, ‘My Mother at
Sixty-Six’? (2 marks).
2.Why has the mother been compare to the ‘late winter’s moon’ in the poem,
“My Mother at Sixty-Six”? (2 marks)
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