1)What does prancing tigers symbolize?             Q2

1)What does prancing tigers symbolize?

Q2. Why are they referred to as ‘denizens of a world of green’?

Q3. What qualities of the ‘tigers’ are highlighted here?

Q4. Explain? “They pace in sleek chivalric certainty”.

2. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

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.”

Q1. Why do Aunt Jennifer’s fingers flutter through her wool?

Q2. Why does she find it hard to pull the ivory needle?

Q3. Explain: ‘massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band’.

Q4. How is Aunt Jennifer affected by the ‘weight of matrimony’?

3. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

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.”

Q1. What is Aunt Jennifer’s death symbolic of?

Q2. Explain ’her terrified hands will lie, still ringed with the ordeals she was mastered by’.

Q3. What will happen to her tigers after her death?

The tigers will still keep prancing over the panel even when Aunt is dead. They will outlive her. The embroidery that she has created will survive for eternity.

VALUE BASED QUESTIONS:

1. In a predominantly male dominated society, women from time immemorial

have faced oppression from men. What changes can be brought about in

the society for uplifting the position of women, like Aunt Jennifer?

2. “… Uncle’s wedding band

3. Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble and attempts what is above