NCERT Solutions for Class 11 English Chapter 8 – Father to Son - Elizabeth Jennings
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Think it Out
Q. Does the poem talk of an exclusively personal experience or is it fairly universal?
Ans. Although the poem is autobiographical, but it is a universal truth. When there is a generation gap, neither the father understands his son nor the son tries to understand his father.
Q. How is the father’s helplessness brought out in the poem ?
Ans. The father is helpless in the sense that he and his son, both live in the same house but still are miles apart. They are like strangers, and no one understands each other. The father thinks that all his education and nurturing has been wasted. He shows his inability to understand his son. The father always wanted his son to change and live the way he wants, but it is not possible as the son has his own world.
Q. Explain in detail the difference between the father and his son with reference to the text.
Ans. The phrases and lines that indicate the distance between the father and the son are :
- I do not understand this child.
- We speak like strangers.
- What he loves I cannot share.
- Silence surrounds us.
Q. Does the poem have a consistent rhyme scheme ?
Ans. No, the poem does not have a consistent rhyme scheme.
In the first stanza, ‘child’ and ‘know’ does not rhyme with any word whereas ‘now’ rhymes with ‘how’ and ‘build’ rhymes with ‘killed’.
In the second stanza, ‘where’ rhymes with ‘air’ and ‘share’, and ‘mine’ rhymes with ‘sign’ and
‘design’.
In the third stanza, no words rhyme except ‘to’ and ‘too’.
In the last stanza, there are rhyming words like ‘live’ and ‘forgive’, ‘land’,’ hand’ and ‘understand’ but there is no consistency.
