NCERT Solutions for Class 12 English Poem Chapter 1

NCERT Solutions for Class 12 English Poem Chapter 1 My Mother at Sixty Six

Summary of Class 12 English Poem Chapter 1 My Mother at Sixty Six

Think it out

Question 1:
What is the kind of pain and ache that the poet feels?

Question 2:
Why are the young trees described as ‘sprinting’?

Question 3:
Why has the poet brought in the image of the merry children ‘spilling out of their homes’?

Question 4:
Why has the mother been compared to the ‘late winter’s moon’?

Question 5:
What do the parting words of the poet and her smile signify?