Class 11 English Poem
Father To Son by Elizabeth Jennings
SEBA Question Answer HS 1st Year
Word meaning:- শব্দাৰ্থঃ-
Understand- বুজি পোৱা
Build up relationship- সম্পৰ্ক গঢ়া
Seed- বীজ
Stranger- অচিনাকী ব্যক্তি
Sign- চিহ্ন
Build to my design- নিজৰ মতে সৃষ্টি কৰা
Share- ভগাই লোৱা
Globe- পৃথিৱী
Grief- শোক
Longing- বাঞ্ছা কৰা
Forgive- ক্ষমা কৰা
1. How is the father's helplessness brought out in the poem 'Father to son'?
HS-2011, 2012, 2013, 2017 Marks-3
Ans:- The father’s helplessness is brought about by the existing circumstances. Usually a father is the best friend and advisor of the son. However, there is no bond of affinity or relationship between the two. It seems that the two are not on speaking terms even while living under the same roof. The father feels helpless that he can’t share what his son loves.
2. What does the father think of his 'prodigal son'? Hs-2011 Marks-3
Ans:- The father is in a mood to forgive his son. He wants that his prodigal son may return to his father's house. And start living under the same roof with him. He does not want that he should create and live in the world of his own.
3. For how long have the father and son been staying together in the same house? HS-2012
Ans:- The father and son have been staying together for years in the same house.
4. Cite the reasons behind the unhappiness of the father. What is his problem? HS-2012 Marks-3
Ans:- The father is unhappy with his son because the son dislikes his father in most aspects in spite of having been brought up under the same roof for years, yet they don't have common between them.
In spite of the indifferent attitude of the son the father is ready to pardon him and begin life afresh. But they cannot share love between them.
5. What is the father's greatest wish for his son? HS-2015 Marks-2
Ans:- The father wishes to revive their dead relationship. He does not want to lose his son. So, his greatest wish is for his 'The Prodigal' son who will very soon return to his father's house; the home which he already knew.
6. Does the poem 'Father to son' talk of an exclusively personal experience or is it fairly universal? Give a reasoned reply. HS-2018 Marks-3
Ans:- Though the poem seems to be an expression of a personal experience yet it is a fairly universal. It displays the communication gap between father and son and a conflict like this is quite common in many households.
7. How is the father’s helplessness brought out in the poem?
Ans:- The poem deals with the complexity faced by father and son for generation gap. Because of this gap, father does not understand his son though they live in the same house for years. The son is a stranger to his father and so is his father to him. He wishes for building the same relationship with his son. But he fails. Thus, the poet has brought out the father's helplessness in the poem.
8. Read the stanza given below and answer the questions that follows:-
A. Silence surrounds us. I would have
Him prodigal, returning to
His father's house, the home he knew
Father than see him make and move
His world. I would forgive him too,
Shaping from sorrow a new love. HS-2016
(i) Why does the father say that silence surrounds them. marks-1
Ans:- The father says that silence surrounds them because there is no communication between him and his son.
(ii) Does the speaker want his son to belong to a different world? marks-1
Ans:- No, the speaker does not want his son to belong to a different world.
(iii) What can be shaped out of sorrow? marks-1
Ans:- A new bond of love can be shaped out of sorrow.
(iv) Find a word in the passage that means 'extravagant'. marks-1
Ans:-prodigal
(v) What idea do you form about the relationship between father and son from the quoted lines? marks-4
Ans:- The father wishes to maintain a healthy relationship with his son. He believed that his prodigal son may return to his home and start staying together under the same roof. He does not like that he would create and live in a separate world. He is ready to pardon his prodigal son. But he fails to restore their relationship due to no response from other side.
B. I do not understand this child
Though we have lived together now
In the same house for years. I know
Nothing of him, so try to build
Up a relationship from now
He was when small. HS-2017
(i) Where do these lines occur? Marks-1
Ans:- These lines occur in the poem 'Father to son' by Elizabeth Jennings.
(ii) Why does the speaker say that he does not know 'this child'? Marks-1
Ans:-the speaker says that he does not know 'this child' because their father-son relationship was not good.
(iii) For how long have the father and son lived together? Marks-1
Ans:- The father and son have lived together for years.
(iv) What does the speaker try to build? Marks-1
Ans:- The speaker tries to build up a relationship with his son.
(v) What idea do you form about the relationship between the father and son from the quoted lines? Marks-4
Ans:- Same as the answer to Q. no. 8. A. (v)
C. Father and son, we both must live
on the same globe and the same land,
He speaks: I can not understand
Myself, why anger grows from grief.
We each put out an empty hand,
Longing for something to forgive. HS-2018
(i) Where must father and son live together? Marks-1
Ans:- Father and son must live together in the same globe and the same land or under same roof.
(ii) What is the source of the father's anger? Marks-1
Ans:- The source of the father's anger is in his grief.
(iii) What does the 'empty hand' signify? Marks-1
Ans:- The 'empty hand' signifies that neither father nor son has gained anything from their estranged relationship.
(iv) What do they long for? Marks-1
Ans:- They long for an excuse of forgive each other.
(v) What idea do you form about the relationship between father and his son from the quoted lines? Marks-4
Ans:- Same as the answer to Q. no. 8. A. (v)
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