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    The poem describes the poet's feelings as she says goodbye to her aging mother at the airport. She is struck by her mother's pale and delicate appearance, which reminds her of her mother's mortality. Images outside the window, like playing children and rushing trees, highlight the poet's nostalgia for her own youth and her mother's younger days. The departure symbolizes the reality of growing old and separation from loved ones. The poet suppresses her sadness at leaving her frail mother by smiling and promising to see her again soon.

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    The poem describes the poet's feelings as she says goodbye to her aging mother at the airport. She is struck by her mother's pale and delicate appearance, which reminds her of her mother's mortality. Images outside the window, like playing children and rushing trees, highlight the poet's nostalgia for her own youth and her mother's younger days. The departure symbolizes the reality of growing old and separation from loved ones. The poet suppresses her sadness at leaving her frail mother by smiling and promising to see her again soon.

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    The poem describes the poet's feelings as she says goodbye to her aging mother at the airport. She is struck by her mother's pale and delicate appearance, which reminds her of her mother's mortality. Images outside the window, like playing children and rushing trees, highlight the poet's nostalgia for her own youth and her mother's younger days. The departure symbolizes the reality of growing old and separation from loved ones. The poet suppresses her sadness at leaving her frail mother by smiling and promising to see her again soon.

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    NCERT Solutions For Class 12 English Chapter 1 - My Mother at Sixty-Six - .

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    The poem describes the poet's feelings as she says goodbye to her aging mother at the airport. She is struck by her mother's pale and delicate appearance, which reminds her of her mother's mortality. Images outside the window, like playing children and rushing trees, highlight the poet's nostalgia for her own youth and her mother's younger days. The departure symbolizes the reality of growing old and separation from loved ones. The poet suppresses her sadness at leaving her frail mother by smiling and promising to see her again soon.

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    Access NCERT Solutions for Class 12 English Poem - My Mother at Sixty-


    Six
    Before You Read:
    1. Ageing is a Natural Process; Have You Ever Thought About What Our Elderly
    Parents Expect from Us?

    Ans: Old age is often considered parallel to loneliness. They lack the company of people of
    their age as well as young individuals along with the physical inabilities that old age has.
    They often end up developing pessimistic approaches towards life which can be shunned
    only if we provide them with love, care, importance, and empathy. Small moments of
    happiness will encourage them to live their lives enthusiastically.

    Think It Out
    1. What is the Kind of Pain and Ache That the Poet Feels?

    Ans: While leaving her parent's home the poet's eyes fell on her mother's pallid face. For the
    poet, the 'ashen' face of her mother, which was also deprived of all its vitality and color, bore
    resemblance to a corpse. She realized that over the past decades her mother had grown old
    and was nearing her death. Such thoughts make her nostalgic and she starts recollecting
    fragments of her childhood memories from the underlying fear of losing her. The idea of
    staying away from her mother deeply distressed her. Even the smile on her face was an
    expression of her helplessness, which was inevitable.

    2. Why are the Young Trees Described as 'Sprinting'?

    Ans: While driving to the airport the poet was worried about her mother. She was worried
    that she was getting older and approaching her end. She looks out from the window of the
    cab, to distract herself from the thoughts, at the young trees which almost appear to be
    sprinting. Viewing the trees from the moving cab created an illusion of them almost running
    past them. The sprinting of the trees symbolizes the pace at which time passes. We start
    as infants and in no time, with happy and bitter memories harbored in our hearts, we reach
    old age. This image, which shows activity and strength, is contrasted with that of her old
    and weak mother who seems dormant and is sleeping in the car. The 'young' trees represent
    life in contrast to her mother's approaching death.

    3. Why has the Poet Brought in the Image of the Merry Children 'Spilling Out of Their
    Homes?

    Ans: The poem brings forth the contrasting image of life and death in various instances.
    The merry children symbolize liveliness, happiness, beauty, and vigor, characteristics we tend
    to lose during old age. The children are enjoying their youthful age playing outdoors while
    the mother is inside the taxi, fast asleep because of tiredness. She is nearing her death and
    has become weak and withered. The poet has juxtaposed the two and has made the sharp
    contrast between them evident. Childhood is the beginning of our life journey on earth while
    old age is the end chapter of it.

    4. Why has the Mother Been Compared to the 'Late Winter's Moon'?

    Ans: With age, we as human beings tend to lose all the vitality and youthfulness that we had
    during youthful age. The simile ‘late winter moon’ indicates the approaching death and old
    age of the mother. With age, her face is filled with freckles, marks, and wrinkles and looks
    like the surface of the moon. Winter is the last season of the year and is characteristic of
    dormancy, laziness, and lifelessness, like old age. All these natural elements resemble her
    mother who has lost all her strength and beauty and looks 'wan' and 'pale' to the poet. The
    poet’s mother is gradually progressing to her end after being in the last stage of her journey
    on earth.

    5. What Do the Parting Words of the Poet and Her Smile Signify?
    Ans: The poet's parting words, "see you soon, Amma," states her heart’s keen desire and
    wish to see her mother again when she returns. She wants her to live more but her physical
    state says otherwise. This also signifies the regret she has in her heart for leaving her
    mother alone at such a delicate time in her life. Her inability to be physically present for her
    pinches her heart and she suppressed it with her smile. We all are helpless before nature. It
    expresses her love and concern for her mother along with the underlying pain and struggles
    that she was undergoing while coming to terms with this bitter realization.

    NCERT Solutions For Class 12 English Poem 1 NCERT Solutions - Free


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    My Mother at Sixty Six Chapter 1 of the English Flamingo depicts the journey of the poet's
    towards the airport. There she starts thinking about her ageing mother and how she is
    getting closer to death.

    12th aspirants can study the detailed summary of this poem as it will help to answer the
    questions during board examination precisely.Students will see the improvements in their
    performance level in the English subject. Following are there exercises covered in Class 12
    English Chapter 1 Flamingo.

    Exercise 1: Before You Read (Page 90).

    Exercise 2: Think it Out (Page 91).

    Summary of Chapter 1 - My Mother at Sixty Six


    "My Mother at Sixty Six" is a poem written by renowned poet Kamala Das that
    portrays the love and grief of losing a loved one.
    The poem highlights the inevitability of time and how relationships evolve with its
    passage.
    The narrator of the poem is worried about losing her mother as she examines her pale
    and delicate features during a visit to Cochin airport.
    The view outside the automobile window, full of rushing greenery and playing children,
    reminds the poet of her own youth and her mother's younger days.
    The departure and separation at the airport signify the reality of growing old and the
    sorrow of being estranged from loved ones.
    The image of an elderly mother in the waning years of her life is compared to a
    winter's late-night moon, with fog and clouds impeding the light.
    The narrator is overwhelmed with sadness and cries uncontrollably but conceals her
    emotions with a smile, bidding her ageing mother goodbye with a hopeful promise to

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