CBSE Class 10 - English(Comm)- SA2- Sample Question Paper and Marking Scheme(2016)

CBSE Class 10 - English(Comm)- SA2- Sample Question Paper and Marking Scheme(2016) 

CBSE Class 10 - Social Studies- SA2- Sample Question Paper with Marking Scheme(2016)

CBSE Class 10 - Social Studies- SA2- Sample Question Paper with Marking Scheme(2016) 

CBSE Class 12 - Physics- Marking Scheme- Sample Question Paper (2016)

CBSE Class 12 - Physics- Marking Scheme- Sample Question Paper (2016) 

CBSE Class 6/7/8/9 - संस्कृत - शब्दरूप (आकारांत स्त्रीलिंग)

संस्कृत - शब्दरूप (आकारांत स्त्रीलिंग) 

लता (बेल)

Class 12 - English - Aunt Jennifer's Tiger (Q and A)

Aunt Jennifer's Tiger

-By Adrienne Rich

Memory Card

Introduction

• The poem portrays an image of a wife dismayed with her married life.
• Aunt Jennifer is an abused wife unable to escape her husband's brutality.
• The poem focuses on Aunt Jennifer's dreams and the harsh world she calls her reality.
• She escapes her harsh world through her stitching and needlepoint, and the tigers that she creates are everything that she is not.
• Rich uses comparison to convey to us the difference between Aunt Jennifer and her tigers.
• Women who are dominated by their husbands live their lives in a state of mental confinement.
• The poet Adrienne Rich expresses the life Aunt Jennifer wishes to lead through artistic creations as she is trapped in an abusive marriage.
• Her tapestries portray her inner feelings conveying the constant terror she's living in.
• The only way for Aunt Jennifer to escape the expectations of her husband is to live on, after death, through her artwork.
• Rich reveals, through the simple lines of Aunt Jennifer's Tigers,a woman's struggles with expressions, rebellion, and a society where power is defined as masculine.

Stanza 1
   
   The first stanza serves to explain what the tigers represent.

• Rich begins her poem with a beautiful picture, setting the scene for the dream world of Aunt Jennifer.
• We see that Aunt Jennifer has ownership over the tigers in some way.
• They are free to "prance" and run across the screen.
• The tigers are bright like "topaz" and they inhabit a world that is green.
• Aunt Jennifer's tigers do not fear men.
• They conduct themselves in a heroic, manly fashion.
• The tigers that Aunt Jennifer owns are confident and certain of who they are and what they want.

Stanza 2
   The second stanza explains who Aunt Jennifer is.

• Aunt Jennifer is described to be working with a piece of wool.
• She is doing needlepoint to a panel that will be placed in a pillow, quilt, or screen of some kind for the home.
• Her fingers are fluttering to create the beautiful image of the tigers.
• Aunt Jennifer is expressing herself through the creation of her tigers.
• She wants to be confident and fearless.
• However, she finds it difficult to create those tigers and express those feelings.
• Those feelings are repressed by the weight of marriage, gender roles, and a dominating society.
• "Uncle's wedding band" represents a particular society in which she lives.
• This weight is not something she enjoys as the band is described to sit "heavily" on her hand and keeps her from the only sense of expression she has, her needlepoint.

Class 12 - English - My Mother At Sixty-Six (Q and A)

My Mother at Sixty-Six

-By Kamla Das

Questions and Answers

Memory Card

• Poetess is travelling back in a car from her parent's place to Cochin 
• Old mother also accompanying-to see her off at the airport 
• Poetess notices that she has dozed off and mouth remained open 
• Her face has a dull, colourless appearance- reminds her of a corpse 
• Thought is painful, realizes she is now an old woman and could be nearing death 
• Turns to look at the racing green trees outside, sees happy children running out of their homes 
• A welcome change from the gloomy thoughts that grip her 
• Reaches the airport, after the security checking, looks at the mother again 
• Sees her pale and ageing face, is reminded of the winter moon with all the vitality and brightness gone 
• Feels pained at being reminded of a childhood fear- had always been scared of losing her mother one day 
• Does not want to show her agony and fear to her mother now 
• Tells her that she would see her soon and bids her goodbye with a fake bright smile 

Q1: What is the kind of pain and ache that the poet feels?

Answer: Kamla Das is in pain by seeing her mother pale and weak like that of a corpse. The fear of losing her mother was her familiar ache, which she was unable to accept.


Q2: Why are the young trees described as 'sprinting' ?

Answer: Poetess has used Personification in "Young Trees sprinting". It personifies the youth who is rushing and running so fast, which is a contrast to the ageing process of her old mother.

CBSE Class 10 - Science- SA2- Sample Question Paper (2016) and Marking Scheme

CBSE Class 10 - Science- SA2- Sample Question Paper (2016) and Marking Scheme