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What is the kind of pain and ache that the poet feels?

What does the poet want for the children of the slums? How can their lives be made to change?

Why do you think Aunt Jennifer created animals that are so different from her own character? What might the poet be suggesting, through this difference?

Why has the mother been compared to the ‘late winter’s moon’?

Do you think the poet advocates total inactivity and death?

What do the parting words of the poet and her smile signify?

What will counting upto twelve and keeping still help us achieve?

What pleasure does a beautiful thing give us? Are beautiful things worth treasuring?

The walls of the classroom are decorated with the pictures of ‘Shakespeare’, ‘buildings with  domes’, ‘world maps’ and beautiful valleys. How do these contrast with the world of these children?

What makes human beings love life in spite of troubles and sufferings?

List the things of beauty mentioned in the poem.

What pleasure does a beautiful thing give us? Are beautiful things worth treasuring?

What makes human beings love life in spite of troubles and sufferings?

What does the line, ‘Therefore are we wreathing a flowery band to bind us to earth’ suggest to you?

What was the plea of the folk who had put up the roadside stand?

How do ‘denizens’ and ‘chivalric’ add to our understanding of the tiger’s attitudes?

Do you sympathise with Aunt Jennifer. What is the attitude of the speaker towards Aunt Jennifer?

Which lines tell us about the insufferable pain that the poet feels at the thought of the plight of the rural poor?

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 the poem?

What symbol from Nature does the poet invoke to say that there can be life under apparent stillness?