Class 11: English Hornbill Poem 1 solutions. Complete Class 11 English Hornbill Poem 1 Notes.
NCERT Solutions for 11th Class English Hornbill: Poem 1-A Photograph
NCERT 11th English Hornbill Poem 1, class 11 English Hornbill Poem 1 solutions
Page No: 11
Infer the meaning of the following words from the context. Now look up the dictionary to see if your inference is right.
Answer
Paddling: To move a boat by means of paddles.
Transient: Something that stays at a place for a short time-period.
Page No: 12
Think It Out
1. What does the word ‘cardboard’ denote in the poem? Why has this word been used?
Answer
‘Cardboard’ refers to the photograph only. This word has been used because photograph it lost it colur and also clarity of its images.
2. What has the camera captured?
Answer
The camera has captured some happy moments from the childhood of the poet’s mother. It was a scene taken from a beach where she had gone with her cousins and her uncle for a sea holiday. The girls were paddling in the water.
3. What has not changed over the years? Does this suggest something to you?
Answer
The sea has not changed over the years. It is still the same. The sea symbolizes eternity.
NCERT 11th English Hornbill Poem 1, class 11 English Hornbill Poem 1 solutions
4. The poet’s mother laughed at the snapshot. What did this laugh indicate?
Answer
This laugh indicates her remembering her past. She looked back to her childhood with nostalgia and remembered the innocent joys of her childhood days.
5. What is the meaning of the line “Both wry with the laboured ease of loss”.
Answer
The line refers to the sea holiday as remembered by her mother and the poet remembering her mother’s laughing face. Both these now belong to the past. Her mother is no more now.
6. What does “this circumstance” refer to?
Answer
‘This circumstance’ refers to the present situation of the poet wherein the poet is absorbed in the painful memory of her dead mother. Looking at the photograph and thinking of her mother’s laughter, the poet also realises that it has been the same number of years since her mother died as her mother’s age in the photograph.
NCERT 11th English Hornbill Poem 1, class 11 English Hornbill Poem 1 solutions
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Chapterwise NCERT Solutions for Class 11 English Hornbill (Poem) :
- Poem 1-A Photograph
- Poem 2-Laburnum Top
- Poem 3-Voice of the Rain
- Poem 4-Childhood
- Poem 5-Father to Son
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