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Ready Reckoner 3- Flamingo - Poetry Key Phrases and Explanations
Ready Reckoner 3- Flamingo - Poetry Key Phrases and Explanations
MY MOTHER AT SIXTY SIX
S. No.
|
Phrase
|
Explanation
|
1
|
Title of the poem
|
The poem revolves around the theme of advancing age,
the fear associated with it, loss and separation.
|
2
|
Trees sprinting
|
Trees sprinting in contrast to the mother who is slow
and old.
|
3
|
the merry children spilling out of their homes
|
The merry children are symbolic of the exuberance of
youth. The energetic and lively children present a contrast to the poet’s
mother who has grown old and pale.
|
4
|
late winter’s moon
|
looks too hazy and lacks brightness and lustre
(simile)
|
5
|
that old familiar ache
|
the agony and pain of separation from her mother that
the poet felt in her childhood,
|
6
|
my childhood’s fear
|
The fear of losing her mother, just as
all young children often are.
|
7
|
See you soon, Amma”
|
suggestive of the hope that they will meet again.
|
8
|
all I did was smile and smile and smile
|
she was trying to hide her real feelings
|
AN
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLASSROOM IN A SLUM
S. No.
|
Phrase
|
Explanation
|
1
|
Title of the poem
|
Poem talks about the miserable lives of
children of an elementary school classroom in a slum
|
2
|
gusty waves
|
The beautiful sights of nature which are
not visible in the slum.
|
3
|
Rootless weeds
|
Children are insecure-may wither away
easily
|
4
|
tall girl with her weighed-down head
|
Because she is depressed due to abject
poverty, sad thoughts about her misfortune or shame.
|
5
|
The paper-seeming boy, with rat’s eyes
|
Thin, hungry and weak
|
6
|
unlucky heir
|
The boy with stunted growth and twisted
bones is the ‘unlucky heir’.
|
7
|
Reciting a father’s gnarled disease.
|
The boy with stunted growth has inherited
a disease from his father, which he often recounts
|
8
|
Sour cream walls
|
Dull and pale classrooms walls
|
9
|
their future’s painted with a fog
|
The future of these children is dark and
uncertain. They are not well-educated, and there is no one to guide them.
|
10
|
Shakespeare is wicked
|
Because the children are not aware of his
literary genius. They are just troubled by hunger, despair and failed
aspirations.
|
11
|
the map a bad
example,
|
Because it does not include their world
of narrow and dirty lanes of the slum
|
12
|
From fog to endless night
|
From morning till night the poor children
of the slum have a miserable existence; they suffer from morning to night
every day.
|
13
|
slag heap
|
Slag heap means a hill or area of refuse
from a mine or industrial site. Here, the bloodless bodies of the poor children
are referred to as ‘slag heap’.
|
14
|
skins peeped through by bones
|
They are malnourished and hence very
skinny.
|
15
|
mended glass
|
The glass of the spectacles is cracked
and pieces of it have been stuck together.- indicates poverty
|
16
|
upon their lives
like catacombs
|
They live in tiny houses like catacombs
|
17
|
their
tongues run naked into books
|
To enable them to read and
understand books and independently by providing them liberal education.
|
18
|
till they
break their town
|
To break the shackles of the slum so that
they can come out of their dirty surroundings into an open area of freedom.
|
KEEPING QUIET
S. No.
|
Phrase
|
Explanation
|
1
|
Title
of the poem
|
The title of the poem suggests that we must keep quiet for
a moment. The poem stresses the significance of mutual
understanding and necessity for introspection.
|
2
|
significance
of the number ‘twelve’
|
There are
12 hours in a clock and 12 months in a year
|
3
|
let’s not
speak in any language
|
Nothing
should be spoken in any language, so there are no disputes. Moreover language
creates communication barriers.
|
4
|
not move our
arms so much
|
We should
not make any physical movement, as physical activity will interrupt our
introspection. Arms’ has two meanings – hands and weapons
|
5
|
engines
|
Automobiles
or machines.
|
6
|
sadness
|
The
‘sadness’ which arises due to the fact that people fail to understand
themselves.
|
7
|
look at his
hurt hands
|
Should
look and realize the harm that he has inflicted on himself.
|
A THING OF BEAUTY
S. No.
|
Phrase
|
Explanation
|
1
|
Title
of the poem
|
‘A Thing of Beauty’ tells us that beautiful
things are a source of constant joy and inspiration. They give us eternal
pleasure and leave an indelible mark on our minds and, therefore, every
beautiful thing is worth being treasured.
|
2
|
Pass into nothingness
|
The joy
that a thing of beauty gives us is eternal. It never loses its importance,
but it only increases with time.
|
3
|
bower
|
A ‘bower”
is a pleasant shady place.
|
4
|
|
|
5
|
inhuman
dearth
|
Man’s
self-centered nature and his inability to rise above pettiness is inhuman dearth
|
6
|
Some shape
of beauty
|
Beauty is
an abstract idea and has no specific shape. The poet here means beauty in
some form or some beautiful object which pleases us.
|
7
|
mighty dead
|
Our ancestors,
the heroes of the world who are worthy of respect.
|
8
|
Grandeur –
mighty dead
|
Grandeur
is associated to the mighty dead because of their great deeds and
achievements.
|
9
|
endless
fountain of immortal drink
|
Keats
considers nature’s beauty as an endless fountain of immortal drink.
|
A ROADSIDE STAND
S. No.
|
Phrase
|
Explanation
|
1
|
Title
of the poem
|
The Roadside Stand by Robert Frost tells the sad
plight of economically underfed people who put up a roadside stand for a
living. They are often fooled by the cunning people who are responsible for
their pathetic existence.
|
2
|
dole
of bread
|
A piece of bread
|
3
|
The
flower of cities
|
Prosperity/growth is the flower of the cities. As the flower is the
crowning glory of a plant, growth becomes the flower of a city.
|
4
|
polished
traffic
|
Polished traffic portrays the insensitive attitude and gentlemanly
appearances of the city-men.
|
5
|
passed
with a mind ahead
|
minds of city people were restless with greed for money and ambitions
for great profits in their business
|
6
|
of
signs with S turned wrong and N turned wrong
|
The Roadside STAND has an S and an N in Stand. The owner of the
stand is illiterate so he has erected the board with wrong spelling with S
and N inverted.
|
7
|
landscape
marred
|
The poor people mar/ruin the beauty of the landscape by putting up on
the roadside
|
8
|
beauty
rest in a mountain scene
|
No beauty in the scenic painting made by the inhabitants of the
roadside stand meant for selling to the rich people
|
9
|
some
city money to feel in hand
|
The poor people do not want promises. They want the promises
fulfilled.
|
10
|
moving
pictures’ promise
|
The movies the poor people have watched are full of promises for them
|
11
|
greedy
good-doers
|
These good doers intend to make money out of the poor people by
appearing beneficent to them. (irony)
|
12
|
beneficent
beast of prey
|
The greedy people who make money in the name of social and political
and charitable works.
|
13
|
enforce
benefits
|
promises wrapped up in glossy appearances declaring to have great
value, but looting them instead.
|
14
|
soothe
the wits of the poor
|
These promises and offers are such a way calculated that the poor
people cannot escape the traps of the rich.
|
15
|
Destroy
their sleeping at night the ancient way
|
The rich people give the poor great promises and exploit them. This
destroys the sleep of the poor people. This method of the rich and mighty is
as old as the human civilizations.
|
16
|
childish
longing in vain
|
The poor people’s uncertain and futile expectation for the city money
is the childish longing. It is in vain as the rich city people do not have
the generosity to help them
|
17
|
selfish
cars
|
The cars are selfish because the people who travel in them are self
centered.
|
18
|
Requisite lift of spirit
|
Money is the most important requirement for man in the modern world.
If one has money at hand then he feels confident and a feeling of his spirit
being lifted.
|
NB: there are endless such
phrases to be learned in this lesson. Search and find more
S.
No.
|
Phrase
|
Explanation
|
1
|
Title
of the poem
|
“Aunt Jennifer's Tiger” is an
appropriate title in that it refers to a tapestry Aunt
Jennifer has made. It contains some ferocious tigers.
The title also suggests the “tiger like
terror” Aunt's husband was. She was in constant fear of him and
felt trapped and suffocated in marriage.
|
|
her
terrified hands
|
Because
she is threatened and burdened by a male dominated society
|
|
sleek
chivalric certainty
|
Sleek,
chivalric and certainty are the three qualities of the tigers knitted by Aunt
Jennifer. Sleek indicates the elegance of their movement while chivalric and
certainty are fearlessness and confidence respectively.
|
|
Wedding
band
|
Marriage
ring, a symbol of love and care but for Aunt Jennifer it was a symbol of
slavery.
|
|
the
ordeals she was mastered by
|
The
ordeals that Aunt Jennifer had been mastered by were her sufferings and
difficulties that she had to suffer under her husband and the burden that society
had imposed upon her because she was a woman.
|
|
Prancing
|
Prancing
is upward jumping. It suggests women’s ambition to get an equal social status.
|
|
Symbols
|
·
The tigers are symbols of liberated
women of America.
·
Wedding band/ring is the symbol of male
domination/chauvinism.
·
Aunt Jennifer is the symbol of
the struggling feminists such as the poet.
·
Knitting is symbolic of the poet’s
attempts to form a generation of free, liberated womanhood.
·
The tree is symbolic of the social
order where women used to occupy the lower branches in the past.
·
Prancing/jumping upward is symbolic of woman’s
ambition to get an equal social
status.
|
Collected by Jineesh
Sebastian, PGT English, KV Coimbatore
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