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प्रश्न
Why do you think that the poet has chosen the title ‘Telephone Conversation’? If you were to suggest another title for the poem, what would it be?
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उत्तर
'Different- are We?' could be another suggestion for the title of the poem.
However, the poet has chosen a very appropriate title for the poem - 'Telephonic Conversation'. It refers very aptly to the shallow racism being projected by the conversation between the landlady who is 'white' and the poet who is 'dark'. The telephone symbolises the gap between the two ends of the line, the impossibility for both ends to meet.
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(i) _______ (ii) _______
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(i) polite =
(ii) relating to feelings =
(iii) to do anything naturally without thinking =
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| – | different | differently |
| Instinct | – | instinctively |
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| Mars | |
| time | |
| be |
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