Father To Son Extra Questions And Answers Class 11 AHSEC
Father to son extra questions and answers class 11
The poem 'Father to Son' is written by Elizabeth Jennings, which describes the relationship between a father and his son.
The poem expresses a father's anguish at the relationship of silence between him and his son. He feels he doesn't know his son though they lived together for many years. They have nothing in common. He is his son only in looks and appearance. They speak like strangers, there is no understanding between them.
Father to son textual question answer :
Q. Does the poem talk of an exclusively personal experience or is it fairly universal ?
Ans : We cannot say that the poem is of an exclusively personal experience. It is fairly universal. The experience may be personal but not exclusive.
Q. How is the father's helplessness brought out in the poem ?
Ans : Every father loves his children. But in this poem every word speaks of the father is helplessness. He wants to revive the relationship they shared when the son was just a child. He finds his son does not belong to his world. They lack communication and even when they converse, it is like two strangers talking. The father yearns for his son's return to his home. He is ready to forgive everything but everything remains a wish without any sign of materialism.
Q. Identify the phrases and lines that indicate distance between father and son.
Ans : The phrases and lines that indicate distance between the father and son are as follows -
a. I do not understand this child.
b. I know nothing of him.
c. We speak like strangers.
d. There is no sign of understanding in the air.
e. What he loves I cannot share.
f. Silence surrounds us.
g. We each put out an empty hand.
Q. Does the poem have a consistent rhyme scheme ?
Ans : No, the poem doesn't have a rhyme scheme.
Father to son extracted short question answer :
Q. What does father intend to try ? Why ?
Ans : The father is repentant that he has killed the spirit of love with his son. So, he intends to try build up the relationship again.
Q. What does the father mean when he says silence surrounds us ?
Ans : By this the father means that when the son and the father live in house then they remain complete silence, they don't talk with each other.
Q. Why does the father say that " This child not my child ?"
Ans : The father says so because he finds nothing common with his son. The son's affections have now turned from his father to some other object. They speak to each other like strangers. There is no understanding between them. What the father likes the son rejects.
Q. "Yet have I killed" who is 'I' ? Whom is he talking about ?
Ans : Here I is referred to the father. He is talking about his son.
Q. What kind of relationship do the father and son share ?
Ans : The father and the son share a very cold relationship. There is no air of understanding between them. They talk like strangers.
Q. What does the father think of prodigal son ?
Ans : The father wants that his prodigal son may return to his father's house and start living under the same roof with him. He is in mood to forgive his son.
Q. For how long have the father and son been staying together in the same house ?
Ans : The father and son have been staying together for years in the same house.
Q. What is the father's regret with for his son ?
Ans : The father wants to change his dead relationship with his son to an alive relationship. He does not want to lose his son. He regrets at having lost opportunities to build relationship with his son but now he desires to forgive and start a new relationship with his son.
Q. Does the poem "Father to son" talk of an exclusively personal experience ?
Ans : The experience may be personal but not exclusive. It is fairly universal.
This type of situation is called generation gap. The son thinks of his father to be old tradition while the father finds his son to be quite updated with the present to which he can't match. So, with time passing by there is a large distance between them.
Q. Why does the father say that there is silence surrounds ?
Ans : The father says so because there is no communication between the father and the son.
Q. Why does the poet use the word 'Prodigal' in the poem ?
Ans : The poet uses the word 'prodigal' in the poem because she refers the poem to the story of the prodigal son in the Bible. The son returns home after making many mistakes and is forgiven. In the poem, the father also wishes that his son returns to him as the prodigal son did.
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