The poetess is in a car on her way home to the Cochin airport. When she looks outside, it feels like the young trees are walking by. With the car, they look like they're sprinting. The trees' fast movement is a metaphor for how quickly years pass in people's lives, from childhood to old age. This picture of her active and strong mother is different from the picture of her old and weak mother sleeping in the car.
What does the poetess observe about her mother in the car during the journey?
(a) Her mother is driving the car.
(b) Her mother is fast asleep.
(c) Her mother is talking on the phone.
(d) Her mother is reading a book.
Solution
(b) Her mother is fast asleep.
How does the movement of the trees appear when observed from the car?
(a) Walking slowly
(b) Standing still
(c) Sprinting
(d) Dancing
Solution
(c) Sprinting
What does the poetess suggest through the contrast between the active and strong mother and the sleeping, old mother?
(a) The inevitability of aging
(b) The importance of a healthy lifestyle
(c) The joy of traveling by car
(d) The significance of trees in our lives
Solution
(a) The inevitability of aging.
What kind of pain and ache that the poetess feels?
The poet is pained to see her mother’s death pale face. She suffers from her childhood fear of losing her mother. She also aches at’ the thought that time and age spare none.
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