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Comment on the subtlety with which the poet captures the general pattern of communication within a family.
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Qua story’: what does the word mean? Find other expressions using the word qua.
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The poetic effect is achieved in the poem through understatement and asides. Discuss this with examples.
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How is the idyllic juxtaposed with the pedestrian in the poem?
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Study the Note to Aspects of the Novel given at the end. Discuss the features that mark the piece as a talk as distinguished from a critical essay.
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Explain the undertones in the statement:
'Wife and husband in unusual rapport
State one unspoken thought':
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Comment on the capitalisation of all the words in the line:
'Children Must be Disciplined'.
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Try rewriting the lecture as a formal essay and examine Forster’s statement: 'since the novel is itself often colloquial, it may possibly withhold some of its secrets from the graver and grander streams of criticism’.
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What makes the urgency of the child's demand seem logical?
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The title, 'Refugee Blues' encapsulates the theme of the poem. Comment.
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What is the poetic technique used by the poet to convey the plaintive theme of the poem?
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What do the references to the birds and animals made in the poem suggest?
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How does the poet juxtapose the human condition with the behaviour of the political class?
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How is the essence of the poem captured in the lines 'two tickets to Happiness'?
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How did the author feel about her mother's passion to make her a dancer?
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What were the lessons of life learnt in her younger days that Kumudini carried into her adult life?
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Identify the lines that reveal the critical tone of the poet towards the felling of the tree.
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Identify the words that help you understand the nature of the poet's father.
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How did Kumudini react to her mother's death?
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'Trees are sacred my grandmother used to say'– what does the poet imply by this line?
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