Childhood | Question Solutions
Childhood Question Solutions
Childhood Question Solutions
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Childhood | Question Solutions
TEXTUAL QUESTION SOLUTIONS
Think It Out
Q.1. Identify the stanza that talks of each of the following:
individuality rationalism hypocrisy
Ans:
Individuality Stanza No.3
Rationalism Stanza No 1
Hypocrisy Stanza No.2
Q.2. What according to the poem is involved in the process of growing up?
Ans: According to the poem there are three processes of growing up as;
The first process begins when a child begins to differentiate between real and imaginary things, between truth and fiction. It is when he becomes rational and realises that hell and heaven cannot be found in Geography.
In the second process, a child turns into a hypocrite. Like the grown-up man, he preaches one thing and does another thing.
After this, he turns into an individualist and becomes independent in his thinking. In this stage, he is not influenced by the thought of others. His ideas become his own.
Q.2. What is the poet’s feeling towards childhood?
Ans: The poet’s feelings towards childhood is that it is the happiest period of everyone’s life. The period of childhood is true, pure and innocent – free from complexities and evils of any kind. In this period a child believes everything that he hears. He believes in God, heaven, hell, love etc. He is not aware of the hypocrisy and sins of the world of adults.
Q.4. Which do you think are the most poetic lines? Why?
Ans: The last four lines are the most poetic. In these lines, the poet says that the period of childhood, which is full of innocent joy and happiness, is short and it passes swiftly. It hides behind the face of an infant. These lines glorify the innocence of a child.
ADDITIONAL QUE SOLUTIONS
- Short Answer Type Questions:
(Each Bearing 2 Marks)
Q.1. How did the poet feel about heaven and hell in his childhood? What does he think about them now?
Ans: The poet, in his childhood, believed that Heaven and Hell were real places. But when he grows up he becomes rational and realises that Heaven and Hell are imaginary things. They cannot be found anywhere.
Q.2. When did the poet realize he had lost his childhood? Why?
Ans: The poet, when completed eleven years, began to realise that he had lost his childhood because with the passing of years he became rational and began to question the existence of Heaven and Hell as they could not be found in geography.
Q.3. What does the poet say about adults?
Ans: The poet says that the adults are not what they appear to be. They talk of love, preach of love; but they don’t act with love. The adults are hypocrite.
- Question- Answers from the Extracts of the Poem (Each bearing 5 Marks)
Q.1. Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow:
(a) ‘When did my childhood go?
Was it the day I cease to be eleven?
Was it the time I realised that Hell and Heaven
Could not be found in Geography,
And therefore could not be,
Was that the day!’
Questions:
(i) What is the poet asking for? 1
(ii) What do Hell and Heaven’ stand for? 1
(iii) What phase of life does the stanza reveal? 1
(iv) How does the poet describe the process of being grown up? 2
Ans:
(i) The poet is asking for his childhood.
(ii) According to the poet ‘Hell and Heaven’ stand for two imaginary places. Hell is full of sorrows and Heaven is full of happiness.
(iii) The stanza reveals the period of childhood of his life.
(iv) According to the poem there are three processes of growing up as;
The first process begins when a child learns to differentiate between real and imaginary things, between truth and fiction.
In the second process, a child turns into a hypocrite. Like a grown-up man, he preaches one thing and does another thing.
After this, he turns into an individualist and becomes independent in his thinking.
(b) ‘When did my childhood go?
Was it the time I realised that adults were not
all they seem to be,
They talk of love and preached of love
But did not acts so loveingly
Was that the day!
Questions:
(i) Who is the poet of the quoted lines? 1
(ii) Is the poet happy with his lost childhood? 1
(iii) What is the poet’s idea about adult people? 1
(iv) What sort of difference does the poet notice in the words and practice of the adult people? 2
Ans: (i) The poet of the quoted lines is Markus Natten.
(ii) The poet is not happy with his lost childhood.
(iii) The poet’s idea about adult people is that they are hypocrites.
(iv) The poet says that the adults are not what they appear to be. They talk of love, preach of love; but they don’t act with love. They are hypocrites. 0 0 0.
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