Question 7.
Why are the eyes of the windows described as blind?
Answer:
Windows are dusty and so one cannot see through it.
Question 8.
The air in the grandmother’s house is frozen. Why?
Answer:
Due to silence and loneliness
Question 9.
Which words tell you that the poet is talking to someone? What is she talking about?
Answer:
The word ‘darling’. She is talking about the house that she had lived in and the love she received while living there.
Question 10.
How does the house itself share the grief of grandmother’s death?
Answer:
The house withdrew into silence and snakes moved among the books.
My Grandmother’s House Textbook Questions And Answers
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Activity 1.
The poet thinks of her past. How is her present different from the past? Find hints/phrases from the poem which give you the idea that house was deserted after the death of the grandmother?
Answer:
She had been given too much love in the past. But in the present, she is begging for love.
The house withdrew into silence and snakes moved among the books.
Activity 2.
Look at the phrase ‘blind eyes of windows’.
(i) Do you think that windows have eyes?
(ii) Aren’t ‘eyes’ a feature of living beings?
(iii) Is the poet attributing human qualities to ‘windows’? How?
Here the poet uses personification’. Personification is a figure of speech where a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes. E.g. The flowers danced in the breeze. Pick out another example of personification from the poem.
Answer:
Eg. Eye of the windows
Windows do not have eyes. Eyes, a feature of living beings is attributed to windows.
‘…. pick an armful of Darkness to bring it here to lie Behind my bedroom door like a brooding Dog…’
Activity 3.
……… my blood turned cold like the moon’ is an example of simile. Pick out another simile from the poem.
Answer:
Simile: Behind my bedroom door like a brooding dog.
Activity 4.
‘……….. blood turned cold’ is an instance of a tactile image. Find out other images from the poem.
Answer:
Snakes moved among books – Visual image
Peer through blind eyes – Visual image
Listen to the frozen air – Auditory image
Pick an armful of darkness – Visual
By now at stranger’s door – Visual
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