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Class - 12
English Core
Flamingo Poetry Chapter-6 AUNT JENNIFER'S TIGER
QUESTIONS:-
Q1. Describe the tigers created by Aunt Jennifer?
Ans.
Aunt Jennifer weaves and creates tigers in the panel with ivory needles. Her
tigers symbolise strength, speed and splendour. They jump with confidence and
certainty. They provide a strik- ing contrast to the frail old lady who created
them.
Q.2. How do 'denizens' and 'chivalric adds to our understanding
of the tiger's attitudes?
Ans:-
Tigers like all beasts of prey are the denizens of the forest. The word
"denizens' means that they are proud of their home, they feel safe there
and have a feeling of belonging attached to it. The word 'Chivalric' means
gallantry or bravery. This shows the majestic and honourable position that they
occupy in the world of animals. So, the use of denizens' and 'Chivalric' for
tigers adds to our understanding of the tiger's attitude.
Q3. Why do you think Aunt Jennifer's hands are "fluttering
through her wool in the second stanza? Why is she finding the needle so hard to
pull?
Ans:-
Aunt Jennifer's hand fluttering through her wool because she is weaving tigers
in the panel. She finds her neddle hard to pull as her wedding life was full of
unpleasant and bitter expe- riences.
It
caused her married life lie heavy on her. This makes the pulling the needle so
hard.
Q4. What is suggested by the image "massive weight of
uncle's wedding band"?
Ans-
The "Massive weight of Uncle's wedding band is a suggestive imagery that
the bindings and obligations of her marriage are too much for her and
fulfilling them had burden and stressed her. The wedding band represents
unreakable bond of mar- riage between the husband and the wife but she had
harsh and difficult experiences of her married life.
Q5. What are the ordeals' Aunt Jennifer is surrounded by, why is
it significant that the poet uses the word 'ringed"? what are the meanings
of the word 'ringed' in poem ?
Ans-
Aunt Jennifer is mentally altogether surrounded by the or- deals she faced
during her married life. The poem narrates the unpleasant experience of married
life. The word "ringed" is important. It makes clear that vicious
grip of her unhappy mar- ried life is still holding her tightly. Aunt Jennifer
is completely surrounded by ordeals of her married life.
5. How has Aunt Jennifer created her tigers? What traits of
tigers do they reveal!
Ans-
Aunt Jennifer's tigers are her own creations. She works with wool and ivory
needles. She has created them in the panel. They have all the traits of the
beasts of prey who are denizens of green forests. They symbolize power and
strength. They are chivalric and full of confidence.
6. What difficulty does Aunt Jennifer face while making her
tigers and why?
Ans-
Aunt Jennifer is making her tigers in the panels. She is using ivory needles.
Her fingers are fluttering through the wool. She finds it difficult (hard) to
pull even the ivory needles. The rea- son is obvious. The weight of unhappy and
unfortunate expe-riences of her married life sits heavily on her hands.
7. How are Aunt Jennifer's tigers different from her?
Ans-
Aunt Jennifer's tigers are the picture of strength, beauty and certainty. They
seem to be jumping across a screen. They "pace in sleek chivalric
certainty". They are confident and impressive. On the other hand, Aunt
Jennifer is a weak, depressed and terrified person. She is still in the grip of
those ordeals and terrors that she faced and suffered during her married life.
Her fingers are so 'terrified' that they find it hard to pull even the ivory
needle. The unpleasent and bitter experiences of her married life heavy on her.
8. What are the difficulties that Aunt Jennifer faced in her
life?
Ans-
The life of Aunt Jennifer was overburdened by the du- ties of her married life.
Hardships and sufferings were the parts of her married fife. She had to face
oppression by her husband even though she was old and weak. Thus, her married
life was full of unhappy.
9. What will happen to Aunt Jennifer's tigers when she is dead?
Ans-
Aunt Jennifer's tigers will survive even after she is dead. She has created the
tigers in a panel are made of wool. These ob- jects of art are immortal. They
will continue prancing, proudly and fearlessly. To express her desire for
freedom she had cre- ated the chivalrous tigers who will survive long after her
death but her own longing for freedom will remain unfulfilled.
10. Aunt Jennifer's tigers are totally different from her own
character. Highlight this contrast.
Ans-
Aunt Jennifer's tigers are prancing over a screen. They look 'sleek and
chivalric They are a picture of strength, beauty and certainty. On the other
hand, Aunt Jennifer is still mentally in the grip of old ordeals and terrors.
They terrorized her during her married life. Her weak terrified' fingers find
even the ivory needle hard to pull.
Multiple Choice Question
Read
the following extract and answer the following questions from 1-9
Aunt
Jennifer's tigers prance across a screen,
Bright
topaz denizens of a world of green.
They
do not fear the men beneath the tree;
They
pace in sleek chivalric certainty.
1. What do Aunt Jennifer's tigers do on the screen?
(A)
They run
(B)
They sing
(C) They prance
(D)
They sleep
2. Through the expression "Bright Topaz denizens" the
poet refers to:
(A) Tigers
(B)
All wild animals
(C)
Men
(D)
None of these
3. What does the word 'Sleek' mean?
(A) Smooth
(B)
Filthy
(C)
Smutty
(D)
None of these
Aunt
Jennifer's fingers fluttering through her wool
Find
even the ivory needle hard to pull.
The
massive weight of Uncle's wedding band
Sits
heavily upon Aunt Jennifer's hand.
4. Aunt Jennifer fingers were _____through her wool the poem?
(A)
cooking
(B) fluttering
(C)
playing
(D)
sleeping
5. Why is she finding the needle so hard to pull?
(A)
because of fluttering fingers
(B)
because of trembling hands
(C)
because of her fears
(D) because of the heavy weight of her marriage ring.
6. Whom is Aunt Jennifer afraid of in this stanza?
(A) Her husband
(B)
Her mother
(C)
Her father
(D)
Her father-in-law
When
Aunt is dead, her terrified hands will lie
Still
ringed with ordeals she was mastered by.
The
tigers in the panel that she made
Will
go on prancing, proud and unafraid
7. What are the ordeals aunt Jennifer is surrounded by?
(A)
wild animals
(B)
old people
(C
) a heavy crowd
(D) heavy responsibilities of married life
8. The tigers in the panel that she made means
(A)
the tigers she sent to the zoo
(B) the tigers embroidered by Jennifer
(C)
the tigers that do tricks
(D)
the tigers that killed her husband
9. Will go on prancing' means
(A) spirit of freedom of the tigers will continue to exist after
her death
(B)
tigers will dance
(C)
tigers will kill
(D)
tigers will show tricks
10. Who is the poet of the poem Aunt Jennifer's tiger?
(A)
Elizabeth Arden
(B)
Sarojini Naidu
(C) Adrienne rich
(D)
Kamla Das
11. Aunt Jennifer's tiger are actually?
(A)
Bengal tigers
(B)
Assam tigers
(C) embroidered tigers
(D)
white tigers
12. Where do Aunt's tiger belong?
(A)
to a cage
(B)
zoo
(C)
mountain
(D) world of green forest
13. What lies heavily on Aunt Jennifer's hands?
(A)
needle
(B)
watch
(C)
work pressure
(D) wedding ring
14. How do the prancing tigers look?
(A)
Just like diamond
(B)
Just like silver
(C) Just like to topaz
(D)
Just like coal
15. How are tigers described in the poem?
(A)
As ferocious
(B)
Fearless
(C)
Chivalric
(D) All of the above
16. What does the image 'massive weight of the wedding band'
mean?
(A) wedding bond of hard married life
(B)
fatty structure of uncle
(C)
fatty body of aunty
(D)
heavy body of tiger
17. Which figure of speech is suitable in the line, "Sits
heavily upon Jennifer's hand?"
(A) Alliteration
(B)
Pun
(C)
Metaphor
(D)
Personification.
18. What does the phrase, 'sleek chivalric certainty' symbolize?
(A)
Cruelty of wild animals
(B)
Nature of aunt Jennifer's character
(C) Aunt Jennifer's unfulfilled wish
(D)
Wild contrasted to domestic
19. Which word in the poem shows the aunt is very weak?
(A)
Ordeal
(B) Topaz
(C)
Prance
(D)
Fluttering
20. Why have the tigers been called Aunt Jennifer's Tigers?
(A)
For Aunt Jennifer is the owner of them
(B)
For Aunt Jennifer has created them on a screen
(C)
For Aunt Jennifer has bought them
(D) For Aunt Jennifer controls them in the ring
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Index
Flamingo | |
Poetry Section | |
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Prose Section | |
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8. | |
Vistas | |
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